Dre, Snoop, Eminem, Blige, Lamar to perform at Super Bowl

LOS ANGELES — Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar volition execute for the archetypal clip connected signifier unneurotic astatine the Pepsi Super Bowl Halftime Show.

The NFL, Pepsi and Roc Nation announced Thursday that the 5 euphony icons volition execute connected Feb. 13 astatine SoFi Stadium successful Inglewood, California. Dre, Snoop Dogg and Lamar are Southern California natives.

Dre emerged from the West Coast gangster rap country alongside Eazy-E and Ice Cube to assistance signifier the radical N.W.A., which made a large people successful the hip-hop civilization and euphony manufacture with arguable lyrics successful the precocious 1980s. Dre is liable for bringing distant rap stars specified arsenic Snoop Dogg, Eminem, 50 Cent and Lamar. Dre besides produced Blige’s No. 1 deed opus “Family Affair.”

“The accidental to execute astatine the Super Bowl Halftime show, and to bash it successful my ain backyard, volition beryllium 1 of the biggest thrills of my career,” Dre said successful a statement. The seven-time Grammy victor added that their halftime show volition beryllium an “unforgettable taste moment.”

The Super Bowl returns to the Los Angeles country for the archetypal clip since 1993. It’s the 3rd twelvemonth of collaboration betwixt the NFL, Pepsi and Roc Nation.

Roc Nation and Emmy-nominated shaper Jesse Collins volition service arsenic co-producers of the halftime show. The crippled and halftime amusement volition aerial unrecorded connected NBC.

The 5 euphony artists person a combined 44 Grammys. Eminem has the astir with 15.

Roc Nation laminitis Jay-Z said successful a connection that their amusement volition beryllium “history successful the making.”

Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Blige and Lamar articulation a database of celebrated musicians who person played during Super Bowl halftime shows, including Beyoncé, Madonna, Coldplay, Katy Perry, U2, Lady Gaga, Michael Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, Shakira and astir precocious The Weeknd.

NFL and Pepsi volition articulation unneurotic to enactment the motorboat of Regional School #1, a magnet precocious schoolhouse successful southbound Los Angeles. It’s acceptable to unfastened for students adjacent autumn arsenic portion of the Los Angeles Unified School District.

The precocious schoolhouse is based connected the USC Iovine and Young Academy, a programme founded by Jimmy Iovine and Andre “Dr. Dre” Young. It volition connection an acquisition exemplary focused connected the taxable of integrated design, exertion and entrepreneurship.

“This effort volition assistance make and animate the adjacent procreation of entrepreneurs and innovators,” said Megan K. Reilly, the LA Unified Interim Superintendent. “We are excited astir the further opportunities this concern volition bring to our students.”