Anderson .Paak has admitted he begged Dr. Dre to look on the 2022 Tremendous Bowl halftime present.
That 12 months’s occasion noticed performances from Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, Mary J. Blige and 50 Cent with Paak making a visitor look as a drummer.
Sitting down for a chat with Drink Champs, the Silk Sonic star revealed how he secured his slot on the stage.
He stated: “They’d already dropped a flyer for the Tremendous Bowl. I used to be not on that shit.
“I hit Dre direct. ‘Dre, what the fuck? Let me get on that joint. Let me play drums, one thing. I gotta get in there a way’. He stated, ‘Hey, it’s all good.’”
Paak then recalled what he was pondering whereas drumming throughout Eminem’s efficiency of “Lose Your self”: “The way in which they orchestrated it, it went off and not using a hitch. That was an enormous second for positive. I used to be like, ‘Ought to I smile?’ I couldn’t assist it. And I’m like, ‘I’m going to be straight-faced.’ After which, as you possibly can see, I had the largest fucking smile the entire time. I attempted. I used to be hyped.”
Kendrick Lamar would then return to the Tremendous Bowl stage three years later for his file breaking efficiency which additionally noticed a visitor look by SZA.
Samuel L. Jackson, who made a cameo within the present, revealed that he believed Kendrick’s efficiency was “revolutionary”.
He stated on Paloma Religion’s Mad Unhappy Dangerous podcast: “I didn’t know what they have been doing. It was kinda trippy as a result of it wasn’t till costume rehearsal that once I seemed up and I seemed on that stage and I’m going, ‘Oh shit, that’s a flag. Ah, fuck, we’re being revolutionaries.’ As a result of I wasn’t listening or paying consideration.”
Jackson appeared all through the efficiency, taking part in a model of Uncle Sam, primarily narrating Kendrick’s present.
Serena Williams and Mustard additionally made transient cameos throughout the efficiency which was extremely acclaimed if controversial for its references to Kendrick’s beef with Drake, topped off with a rendition of “Not Like Us”.
Throughout the precise efficiency of “Not Like Us”, Kendrick self-censored the “licensed pedophile” line however smirked to the digicam as he rapped: “Say Drake, I hear you want ’em younger / You higher not ever go to cell block one / To any [bitch] that discuss to him and so they in love / Simply be sure you cover your lil’ sister from him.”
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