Usher Discusses Call From Jay-Z Inviting Him To Headline Super Bowl Halftime Show: ‘It’s Magic Time’
etcanada.comNow that Usher has been officially announced as headliner of next year’s Super Bowl halftime show, he’s opening up about how he learned he was being offered the gig.
According to Usher, that offer came from no less than Jay-Z himself. In a new interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, Usher recalled picking up a call from the “99 Problems” rapper, whose company, Roc Nation, produces the halftime show. READ MORE: Usher To Headline Super Bowl 2024, Says ‘It’s An Honour Of A Lifetime’ ‘Well, I mean, you know, me and the big homie, we talk often,” Usher told Lowe of Jay-Z. “But when I got this call… he said, ‘It’s time, it’s magic time.
You know, it’s time for you to have that moment.’ I’m like, what are you talking about? He’s like, ‘The Super Bowl.’ I’m like, ‘Oh, you ready?
Absolutely,'” he continued. According to Usher, “it was like this was destined to happen. I think that everything that led up to that moment, going to Las Vegas for my Vegas residency for the last two years.
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