Snoop Dogg Says Jay-Z Defended Super Bowl Halftime Performers, Threatened to End Roc Nation’s NFL Partnership If League Didn’t Greenlight Show

In a recent interview with TIDAL, Snoop Dogg claimed that Jay-Z threatened to end Roc Nation‘s partnership with the NFL if Snoop, Kendrick Lamar, Mary J. Blige, and Eminem weren’t allowed to perform at the Super Bowl Halftime Show.

It was rumored that the NFL did not want Snoop‘s gang affiliations shown during his performance since he usually Crip walks at his shows.

Additionally, executives were against Dr. Dre singing a line from his song ‘Still Dre Day’ where he says, “Still not loving police.” Executives were also allegedly against Eminem kneeling as an ode to Colin Kaepernick.

During the interview, Snoop also told Tidal’s Elliot Wilson that he admired Jay-Z and was thankful that he defended the performers so they could perform how they wanted to.

After Halftime, the rapper shared that he had a moment with HOV as if they had just won the championship themselves.

 He said, 

“[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.’”

Snoop called the whole experience “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. 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.”