Snoop Dogg Claims JAY-Z Threatened to Call Off NFL Partnership For Super Bowl Halftime Show

According to Snoop Dogg, JAY-Z threatened to end the partnership of Roc Nation and the NFL if Snoop, Dr. Dre, Kendrick Lamar, Mary J. Blige and Eminem were not allowed to perform at the Super Bowl Halftime Show.

Speaking to TIDAL’s Elliot Wilson, Snoop shared that he and Hov — who was the first one that went to the dressing room after the set — shared a moment after the Halftime Show performance as if they had won a championship:

“So then [JAY-Z] came down, and soon as he came in he hugged me. We hug each other tight. It was as if we won a championship. Like, you know when you’re genuinely happy for each other? People don’t understand, me and him are the ones. He’s the one on the East. I’m the one from the West. We love each other. Like, not secretly, like publicly, we love each other. It is what it is, so it’s like for him to go to bat for us and tell the NFL, ‘F*ck that. They perform or I quit,’ that was the most gangster shit out of everything. Then with attire and kneeling and all this … you can’t wear your gangbang shit? JAY-Z hit me like, ‘Wear what the fu*k you want to wear. Peace to the Gods.’”

The BODR rapper also briefly touched on the whole experience, which he called “the greatest shit ever” after watching the performance on playback. “Being there, it felt like the greatest concert of all time,” he shared. “When I first came out, that meant a lot to me that Dre would let me come out first. The first vocal was me. To let me kick that off and have enough confidence in the D-O Double to say, ‘OK. The biggest moment of my career, I trust the D-O Double. He’s going to lead off, and then he’s going to come back at the end of the ninth inning.’ You’ve got to walk the dog back out … boom boom boom, and have all the Crip Walkin’. You know what I’m saying? It’s the West.”

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