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.