50 Cent, Eminem, Dr. Dre, Mary J. Blige, and Snoop Dogg perform during the Pepsi Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show at SoFi Stadium on February 13, 2022 in Inglewood, California.
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Dr. Dre, Eminem, Mary & Snoop Win Emmy For Halftime Show

Dr. Dre, Eminem, Mary J. Blige, Snoop Dogg Take Home Emmy For Super Bowl Halftime Show

Published Sun, September 4, 2022 at 12:00 PM EDT

This year's Halftime Show has won two Creative Arts Emmys. The Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show was the talk of February, as superstars Dr. Dre, Mary J. Blige, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, 50 Cent and Kendrick Lamar all hit the big game to perform a medley of classics. The performance drew raves, and now the halftime show has taken home an even bigger honor.

The Television Academy announced the news. The six stars won both the Outstanding Variety Special (Live) and Outstanding Production Design for a Variety Special categories for the West Coast-themed show in February.

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The stars performed a litany of hits: “The Next Episode,” “California Love," “Lose Yourself,” Mary J. Blige’s “Family Affair," 50's "In Da Club" and Kendrick Lamar’s “m.A.A.d City." Dre himself recently revealed that he almost backed out of the hotly-anticipated Halftime Show.

During an interview on Dolvett Quince’sWorkout the Doubt podcast, Dre said he was considering pulling out of the performance for fear of looking like a sellout.

“I was absolutely concerned about that,” he admitted. “I actually called a couple of close friends and said, ‘Listen, I’m gonna pull out. I’m not gonna do the show. Because I don’t know if I want that smoke. I don’t know if I want the backlash after doing the show and potentially looking like a fucking sellout or something like that."

He says that then he got on the phone with Nas.

“He called me up and was like, ‘Yo bro’ — you know, Nas has that voice — ‘Yo bro, you gotta do it. You gotta do this. It’s gonna be so powerful for fucking Hip Hop, for the culture, for you, for L.A. and the whole nine,'" Dre recalled.

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