The 2024 NFL season is now underway, and it was recently revealed that a five-time Grammy Award-winning artist turned down the opportunity to perform at this year's Super Bowl Halftime Show, not once but twice. On September 8, the NFL announced that Kendrick Lamar would be headlining this season’s Super Bowl Halftime Show.

Sept. 16, Super Bowl halftime producer Jesse Collins detailed how the decision is made to Variety and said that JAY-Z makes the final call.

It appears the townspeople are mad at the Gods. Shortly after it was announced that supreme being Kendrick Lamar would be the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show headliner, all hell broke loose. Followers, fans and fanatics alike all took to social media to complain that this wasn’t just a travesty but a miscarriage of justice.

Jay-Z has been choosing the Super Bowl halftime headliner every year since his entertainment company, Roc Nation, partnered with the NFL in 2019. Jesse Collins, an executive producer behind the Super Bowl halftime show, also recently shared that it’s Jay-Z who selects the halftime headliner.

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Snoop Dogg has weighed in on the Kendrick Lamar and Lil Wayne Superbowl controversy in his appearance on Shannon Sharpe and Chad Johnson's ‘Nightcap’ podcast. The discussion comes amid the NFL’s decision to select Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar as the headline act for the 2025 Super Bowl Halftime Show.