Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg and Eminem are among the artists that have been announced to perform at next year’s Super Bowl half-time show.<\/p>\n
The NFL said they will be joined by Mary J Blige and Kendrick Lamar at the SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, on 13 February.<\/p>\n
The five music stars, who have 43 Grammys between them, will perform together for the first time ever in a show that will likely draw millions of viewers.<\/p>\n
Dre helped launch the careers of some of hip hop’s greatest – including Snoop Dogg and Eminem – and the trio will work together for the first time since Dr Dre’s multi-platinum-selling album 2001, which was released in 1999 – despite Eminem and Dre performing together at the Coachella festival in 2018.<\/p>\n
“This will introduce the next saga of my career,” Dr Dre wrote on Instagram.<\/p>\n
“The opportunity to perform at the Super Bowl<\/strong><\/a> LVI half-time show, and to do it in my own back yard, will be one of the biggest thrills of my career,” he said in a statement.<\/p>\n The seven-time Grammy winner added that the half-time performance will be an “unforgettable cultural moment”.<\/p>\n Dre, Snoop and Pulitzer prize winner Lamar, who announced he will release his final album for Top Dawg Entertainment in August, all hail from Los Angeles in southern California.<\/p>\n The performance comes as the the Super Bowl – the showpiece event of American football – returns to the Los Angeles area for the first time since 1993.<\/p>\n Last year’s game was played at the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, with The Weeknd<\/strong><\/a> performing at the half-time show.<\/p>\n Tom Brady’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat the Kansas City Chiefs 31-9, in a match that saw crowds limited to 25,000 due to COVID-19 restrictions.<\/p>\n For the past three years, the half-time show has been produced by the NFL, Pepsi and Roc Nation, Jay-Z’s entertainment company.<\/p>\n Jay-Z said in a statement that the show will be “history in the making”.<\/p>\n A host of superstars have previously performed during the half-time show, including Beyonc\u00e9, Madonna, Coldplay, Katy Perry, U2, Lady Gaga<\/strong><\/a>, Michael Jackson, Jennifer Lopez and Shakira.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n![\"Dr](\"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/21\/10\/768x432\/skynews-eminem-dr-dre-snoop-dog_5531160.jpg?20211001093031\")
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\n Dr Dre signed Eminem in 1998 for Aftermath Entertainment<\/span>
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\n Kendrick Lamar announced in August that he will release his final album for Top Dawg Entertainment<\/span>
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\n Often referred to as the ‘queen of hip hop soul’, Mary J Blige is credited with influencing the musical marriage of hip hop and R&B<\/span>
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