Thank u #WWE #WWEHOF #Wrestlemania pic.twitter. & sing theme song! #WrestleMania #RiseToTheOccasion Over the weekend, Snoop also became the first musician to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.įamily ties 💕🌟✨💫✊🏾📽 /GZrRvOe2BK The rapper and WWE Diva also made sure to pose for some family portraits after the whole show. "Yes yes ya'll, so fresh ya'lll/ Snoop Dogg and Sasha Banks we're the best ya'll/ Make way for the new, comin' through/ And if you in the way let me say she comin' for you," he delivered before his cousin met up with him onstage. However, he's also all about his family.īefore Sasha Banks, who was competing in the WWE Women's Championship at Wrestlemania 32 in Dallas, Snoop came out with singer Raven Felix to perform the wrestler's theme song. There will be debates that follow about whether all this powerful symbolism is more than glossy gesture politics, but given the brief they had, you can’t imagine them trying any harder to make this mean something.Snoop Dogg might be known for west coast hip-hop, smoking up and the party life. Without the crip walking and crime bossing of his early years, the varied and mainstream LP falls right in line with Snoop. You can’t do much in 12 minutes, in the gap between a football game, but everything you can do, Dre did. Coming just about a year after his Pharrell Williams -helmed album Bush landed as a conceptual, dank disco triumph, Snoop Dogg returned with this 2016 back-to-basics effort, Coolaid, which is as comfortable as it is cool. Yet this year it felt about more than great production values and Pepsi sponsorship. The Super Bowl half-time show remains the biggest gig in the world, with an unparalleled live TV audience not for nothing did Mary J Blige, who at 51 is one of the most decorated R&B singers of all time, describe this performance as “the opportunity of a lifetime”. But even they were emotionally overshadowed by Kendrick Lamar emerging from a row of cardboard boxes to perform Alright, the song that was heard at Black Lives Matter protests across the country, now being performed at the centerpiece event of a league that had told black athletes five years ago they had no right to protest against racism. Yet both those powerful moments did happen. There were rumors that there would be limits to how much restitution the NFL would allow: reporting in Puck said the NFL had rejected Eminem’s request to take the knee at the ceremony (something they later claimed to be false), and told Dre that he would not be able to include the lyric “still not loving police” in his performance of Still Dre. The choice of artists was enough for at least one police force, in Long Island, to encourage residents to boycott the ceremony. Now with five of the defining artists of 90s hip-hop and R&B sharing the stage, led by Dr Dre – who, as part of NWA, gave America’s music its most powerful statement against police racism – it could be argued the Super Bowl has regained some credibility among black fans.
Since then the production has been taken over by Jay Z’s Roc Nation, with acclaimed artists such as the Weeknd and a celebrated shared performance by Jennifer Lopez and Shakira returning prestige to the slot. Mary J Blige at the Super Bowl half-time Photograph: Ronald Martinez/Getty Images
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