Dr. Dre's Super Bowl Half Time Show is one of the most memorable in history but the legendary producer says he had to be convinced by Jay-Z and Nas not to pull out of the 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.

Snoop previously shared with TIDAL that Jay-Z threatened to end his partnership with the NFL if Dre didn't perform.

“We love each other,” Snoop said. “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, ‘Fuck 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 gang bang shit? JAY-Z hit me like, ‘Wear what the fuck you want to wear. Peace to the Gods.’”

In the end, Dre delivered an Emmy-nominated showing that included dynamic performances from Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige, 50 Cent, and Kendrick Lamar, with Anderson.Paak showing up on drums.