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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To me the NFL has cancer and we are witnessing it slowly dying.
It has a lot of money. So it will be around for a while, but it no longer has its mass appeal it once did.
I wonder how they managed this?
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Probably with heavy compression and gating.
If you can tolerate listening to some of their crap, you may hear lots of rock melodies that they have stolen to ‘make’ their ‘music’.
Well that’s all in your head.
Out here in reality. It is. And has been. For a long time. And all your conspiracy stuff is just nonsense. We’ve known for a long long time the biggest market for hip hop is white kids.
You see no evidence cause you’re only looking in your own head. You’re not actually resisting anything, you’re just trumpeting your own wilful ignorance.
"Funny thing about the performance, I heard no stadium echo on the music or lead vox even though, well, they were in a stadium. When the announcer addressed the crowd I heard it. When the players spoke to the crowd after the game I heard it. But the Rap sounded echoless. I wonder how they managed this?"
not to mention the obvious fake crowd cheering.
I guess diversity took a back seat to wokeness.
Not kissing anything. I do like Snoop. He does have great grooves. And the fact that you need to go into posting history to turn things into a flame war shows you are nothing. Bye.
During the quarantine, didn’t they use the “canned” applause for the crowd (when there was no crowd)?
100%
Yea, you can tell the difference.
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.
Prince’s halftime show in the rain was the best of my lifetime.
Up With People was the worst.
Culture is what you live in. Bitching and moaning just tells the world you’ve stopped living.
Reminded me of the Howler monkey exhibit at the zoo.
Smelled like it too.
Listen to what Terence McKenna said.
It is brilliant—and inspiring—and could change your life.
So Ass. Press approves of Dr. Dre rapping something called “Nigga Witta Gun” in which the word “nigga” is screamed out dozens of times?
I listened. It’s the whining of a guy who got left behind and wants everything to get back to some imaginary version of the world that never existed. He’s an idiot. Ignoring dumbasses like him keeps me engaged and enjoying life.
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