A record executive debunks theory and states Drake was indeed offered the Super Bowl twice in the past and turned it down.

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.

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.

The two artists have largely gone their separate ways over the last few months, with most considering Lamar the winner after dropping a No. 1 hit with "Not Like Us." Lamar carried that momentum into the Super Bowl halftime show,