Super Bowl 56 Halftime Show Won’t Have Just One Headliner—It’ll Have 5

NFL and Pepsi tap Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar to perform

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Instead of featuring one or two headliners as usual, the Pepsi Super Bowl 56 Halftime Show will split the spotlight five ways.

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The event—which is slated to be held on Feb. 13, 2022, at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif., and air on NBC, Peacock and Telemundo—will feature performances from Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar, the NFL and Pepsi said today.

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The joint performance, which will mark the first time the five hip-hop artists have performed together onstage, is designed to pay homage to West Coast hip-hop as the Super Bowl game comes back to the Los Angeles area for the first time in almost three decades, Pepsi vp of marketing Todd Kaplan said in a statement.

“Artists like Dr.

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