Looks like simply yesterday the folks in control of placing collectively the Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present couldn’t purchase a Hip-Hop act because the tradition was boycotting the annual leisure phase of the massive sport as a result of NFL league blackballing Colin Kaepernick.
However instances have modified and with Jay-Z having a say in issues as of late, the 2022 SB Half-Time Present gained’t simply be Hip-Hop primarily based, however it’ll be boasting a few of the most iconic names within the sport as Dr. Dre, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar. To hype up this 12 months’s Halftime Present, OG director F. Gary Grey put collectively a brand new cinematic industrial spot dubbed The Name that includes the aforementioned artists and finest imagine it acquired us older heads hype as hell. Beginning off with Eminem in his lab standing throughout his Slim Shady persona, the spot showcases every artist of their component from Snoop strolling the streets of LA in a lowrider to Dr. Dre strolling by way of the seashore because the water turns into piano keys that being to play the beat to “Nonetheless D.R.E.” With every artist getting a telephone name of their phase, one after the other, Eminem, Snoop, Mary, Kendrick and Dr. Dre make their technique to Los Angeles (solely Em and Mary needed to fly) to hyperlink up and plot how they’re going to go about their enterprise at Tremendous Bowl 56.
The spot is fairly rattling dope so we will solely think about the hits that these legendary artists might be belting out for 12 minutes come February 13.
Take a look at the F. Gary Grey directed The Name beneath and tell us in case you’re as excited as we’re about this 12 months’s Halftime Present.
