LOS ANGELES (VG) The Detroit rapper stole the headlines after the spectacular break show during the Super Bowl in the USA.
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The break show during the NFL Finals is this year’s TV event in the United States and often causes a lot of talk. For example, when Janet Jackson showed the doll in 2004.
This year, local LA heroes Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg and Kendrick Lamar brought Mary J. Blige and 50 Cent and Eminem to the stage at So-Fi Stadium in Inglewood, not far from Compton, as Dr. Dre has immortalized in so many songs.
Among other things, they performed some “kind” versions without cursing songs from the Dr. Dre classic “2001”, and Mary J. Blige performed “Family Affair”. But it was not just the music that made social media move after the show.
–Eminem is said to have proposed to kneel before performing “Loose Yourself”, but according to the Independent has been advised against doing so by the Super Bowl organizers.
The website Puck reported on Sunday that the NFL told Eminem not to kneel, but spokesman Brian McCarthy says this is not true, writes Reuters. According to McCarthy, the NFL tops have seen the show before it was shown, and the kneeling was with.
This way of protesting was introduced by NFL player Colin Kaepernick in 2016. He put a knee on the ground during the American national anthem, among other things as a protest against police violence against blacks in the United States.
– I will not stand and pay homage to a flag for a country that oppresses black and colored, he said after the first kneeling.
On Sunday, Eminem knelt to cheers from the audience at the So-Fi stadium.
The cameras panned according to Deadline.com away from Eminem in what he did.
The stands were packed with celebrities in Los Angeles. LeBron James, Sean Penn, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, Mark Wahlberg, Cardi B. and Martha Stewart were just some of the celebrities the cameras captured during the broadcast.
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