Super Bowl LVI halftime performers revealed

The NFL on Thursday unveiled the slate of halftime performers for Super Bowl LVI, a star-studded lineup that includes Dr. Dre, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar.

Collectively, the group of musicians have won 43 Grammy Awards and have been nominated for a whopping 154 Grammys. The five performers have released a total of 19 No. 1 Billboard albums. Each artist tweeted a message after Pepsi, the official sponsor of the Super Bowl LVI halftime show, posted a message revealing the artists.

“I’m extremely excited to share the stage with my friends for the #PepsiHalftime Show,” Dr. Dre wrote. “This will introduce the next saga of my career. … Bigger and better than ever!”

Eminem shared a similar but shorter message, labeling it “Dre day in February.” Snoop Dogg, Blige and Lamar all posted brief messages, too.

Dr. Dre, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Blige and Lamar join highly-anticipated Super Bowl LVI crew

Before Dr. Dre, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Blige and Lamar were even publicly named the halftime performers, Super Bowl LVI had some sky-high expectations. That’s because it’s scheduled to be held in state-of-the-art SoFi Stadium.

SoFi Stadium, home of the Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Chargers, is in its second season, having hosted its first event on Sept. 8, 2020. Super Bowl LVI will be the first of many highly-touted, worldwide events scheduled in the Inglewood, California, stadium over the next decade, including the 2023 College Football Playoff National Championship and the 2028 Summer Olympics opening and closing ceremonies.

Contractors first broke ground on SoFi Stadium in November of 2016, just over five years before it hosts Super Bowl LVI. The construction cost of SoFi Stadium has been reported between $5 and $6 billion; initially, the Rams and Chargers ownership groups proposed a $2.2 billion stadium proposal to the NFL owners, an estimate that soon became erroneous.

Super Bowl LVI is scheduled to take place on Feb. 13, 2022, and it will be the first Super Bowl played in the greater Los Angeles area since Super Bowl XXVII in 1993, when the Dallas Cowboys beat the Buffalo Bills 52-17. SoFi Stadium was originally supposed to host Super Bowl LV in 2020, but after COVID-19-related delays pushed back the stadium’s opening to 2020, the NFL relocated Super Bowl LV to Raymond James Stadium in Tampa Bay and gave SoFi Stadium the next Super Bowl.

As of Thursday, the Kansas City Chiefs are current odds-on favorites to make the Super Bowl out of the AFC, with +300 odds. The Chiefs are followed by the Buffalo Bills at +400 and the Baltimore Ravens at +700. In the NFC, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are the favorites to make their second-straight Super Bowl, priced at +250, followed by the Los Angeles Rams at +400 and the Green Bay Packers at +650.