The Super Bowl Halftime Show Basically Mirrored Our 2003 iPods & The Internet Lost Its Mind
By Courtney Fry
Published February 14, 2022
The NFL’s night of nights has come and gone for another year — the Los Angeles Rams took out the Super Bowl with a 23-20 win over the Cincinnati Bengals, ending a 22-year drought for the Rams. The other showstopping part of the game every year is the Super Bowl halftime show, and this year’s performance was one for the books.
A massive medley of iconic tracks from Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige, 50 Cent Anderson .Paak and Kendrick Lamar blew out the SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California on Monday our time (Sunday night west coast time).
It’s the first time an all-rap performance has graced arguably the biggest stage in America. The Dre-led crew turned it into a massive block party filled with wall to wall bangers.
I’m talking “California Love”, “In Da Club” and “Lose Yourself”. There was “The Next Episode”, “Family Affair” and “Alright”. All hits, no misses.
It 100% tickled all the right spots of all of us who grew up listening to hip hop between the mid-90s and the 2010s. And it definitely set the internet ablaze as the “Dre Day” performance rolled on.
So here’s how everyone reacted to each moment of the 2022 Super Bowl halftime show.
i’m so old i enjoyed the super bowl halftime show.
— hasanabi (@hasanthehun) February 14, 2022
Tonight’s super bowl halftime show presented by my 2005 iPod #HalfTimeShow #SuperBowl pic.twitter.com/rwCuYqn8sP
— Maybe: Chris (@cmindnich) February 14, 2022
Millennials watching the #SuperBowl halftime show: pic.twitter.com/gmY4srkJ2u
— Best Vision TV (@Bestvisiontv) February 14, 2022
Tonight’s Super Bowl Halftime Show got me like …#HalfTimeShow pic.twitter.com/YBSU0bOYhR
— ⭐️Jonathan Scott⭐️ (@jonscott1983) February 14, 2022
50 CENT AT THE HALFTIME SHOW AND HE DID THE UPSIDE DOWN IN DA CLUB INTRO 😭😭😭😭 5TH GRADE ME IS THRIVING RIGHT NOW #SuperBowl pic.twitter.com/OWJA5zpoe3
— Smitty Werbenmanjensen (@ChrEEstosK) February 14, 2022
Mary J. Blige and Dr. Dre at the Halftime Show pic.twitter.com/c5lUpoQcgB
— BetMGM 🦁 (@BetMGM) February 14, 2022
i just cried watching that halftime show! THAT. WAS. PERFECT.
— michelle visage (@michellevisage) February 14, 2022
OMG!!!!!!!!! WOW WOW WOW!!!!!!!! THE GREATEST HALFTIME SHOW IVE EVER SEEN!!!
— LeBron James (@KingJames) February 14, 2022
Both Dr. Dre and Eminem defied the NFL throughout the halftime performance. Dre still rapped the anti-cop “still not loving police” line from his 1999 hit “Still” and Eminem took a knee after smashing through “Lose Yourself”.
King shit.
The NFL’s cameras cut away as Eminem kneeled during the Super Bowl Halftime Show.
— Resist Programming 🛰 (@RzstProgramming) February 14, 2022
They told him not to, but he did it anyway. pic.twitter.com/yHKIVfve0V
Between Eminem kneeling in solidarity, Dre still not loving the police, and Snoop's halftime Crip Walk, Republicans are reportedly seeing red and throwing up blood. So, things are looking up.
— Antifa Barbie (@ThatAntifaBitch) February 14, 2022
It was great seeing Eminem kneeling in support of Colin Kaepernick and Dr. Dre delivering his famous line “still not loving police” during the Super Bowl halftime performance. Legends! ❤ pic.twitter.com/OtycOMdlGE
— Sir Mondaylee💡 (@Mondaylee) February 14, 2022
If you haven’t watched this year’s Super Bowl Halftime show then you can peep it over on NFL’s YouTube channel right now. Put it on the biggest TV and crank the speakers up because it’s a hell of a party that’s gonna be hard to beat next year.
Image: Getty Images / Kevin C. Cox
