Jay-Z Reportedly Turned Down Super Bowl Show After Being Asked To Bring Rihanna & Kanye West
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Ahead of today’s Super Bowl LIV, JAY-Z is getting candid about the one time he turned down the opportunity to perform at the halftime show.
Jay Z, 50, told The New York Times that the NFL had asked him to bring Kanye West & Rihanna so they could perform “Run This Town.”
“Of course I would have,” JAY said. “But I said, ‘No, you get me.’ That is not how you go about it, telling someone that they’re going to do the halftime show contingent on who they bring. I said forget it. It was a principle thing.”
“I didn’t like the process. I think the process of selection was fractured,” he told New York Daily News last year. “Take four of us [performers] and everybody thinks they’re playing the Super Bowl. It’s almost like this interview process. So if I could pick one, three other people are upset. That’s not even good math. After three years, nine people are upset and three people are going to play. I just think the process could’ve been more definite.”
HOV is currently working as the live music entertainment strategist with the NFL.
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