Posted on 02/14/2022 4:54:31 AM PST by MarvinStinson
Dr. Dre & Co. took the weight of the hip-hop culture on the Super Bowl stage, shouldered the pressure from skeptics and delivered a strong halftime show to prove that edgy rap can work at the world’s biggest sporting events.
All it took was hip-hop’s most controversial figures — and one knee taken by music’s most prominent white rapper.
Dre, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, Eminem and Kendrick Lamar were headliners along with 50 Cent as a special guest at the Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday. Their collective performance is one of the best since Beyoncé and Bruno Mars’ halftime set in 2016.
Each performer offered their own element: Dre, Snoop Dogg and Lamar brought their West Coast flavor. Blige — known as the “Queen of Hip-Hop Soul” — sang and danced her heart out. 50 Cent hit the musical rewind button with “In Da Club.”
When Eminem’s turn came, he performed a couple of his hits. But he seemingly defied the NFL by kneeling after performing “One Shot.”
Eminem stayed down on one knee for a moment while Dre sat in front of a piano and played Tupac’s “I Ain’t Mad at Cha.”
The five legendary performers – particularly Dre and Snoop Dogg – performed the clean versions of their songs for the PG crowd. It initially felt kind of weird at first, because there were several instances when a expletive word was replaced by a safer one.
On the NFL national stage, that worked to their advantage. Why? It shows that hip-hop can be performed in various versions and still be appealing to the ears.
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It was epic alright, epically bad.
The building props they used could have been a target store.
Ghetto fabulous! Fitting for the Toilet Bowl.
If they were all white, there would be screams of discrimination!
Waiting ...
With all the grasping of genitals it certainly wasn’t for the whole family...no wonder some black kids act like they do.
To me it looked like gang members flashing gang signs and talking trash. Gangs don’t inspire me at all.
The tortured screams of a women on top of a room full of crotch grabbing guys was Goodall’s plantation image. Playing them like a fiddle.
Jane Goodall, I presume.
I think he might have meant NFL Commissioner Roger “Goodell”
I especially liked the pimpmobiles parked alongside the brothel. Nice touch.
I guess I could have at least spelled the creeps name right.
A total freak show.
Putin would do the world a favor by blowing up the planet right now.
Shoulda had Vick come up and torture some dogs.
The “ culture “ would have gone wild.
/NEVER forget
WOKE sucks. The show sucked. Why is it right to shove minority crap down our throats but the majority cannot do the same without being called racist. The majority should count for something.
I guess diversity took a back seat to wokeness.
We’ve became the laughing stock of the world.
Huh.
Was that thing yesterday?
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