Anderson. Paak Says He Begged Dr. Dre To Let Him Perform At The Super Bowl

Anderson. Paak was a part of the star-studded lineup that performed at Super Bowl LVI in Los Angeles. But he said he had to beg Dr. Dre to get on the show.

During a recent episode of Drink Champs, Paak revealed how he got on the stage for the historic performance.

“They had already dropped a flyer for the Super Bowl. I was not on that sh*t,” the Silk Sonic member recalled.

“I hit Dre direct. ‘Dre, what the f**k? Let me get on that joint. Let me play drums, something,” Paak continued. “I gotta get in there some way’. He said, ‘Hey, it’s all good.’”

Paak then shared how he felt drumming during Eminem’s performance of “Lose Yourself.”

“The way they orchestrated it, it went off without a hitch. That was a big moment for sure. I was like, ‘Should I smile?’ I couldn’t help it. And I’m like, ‘I’m going to be straight-faced.’ And then, as you can see, I had the biggest fucking smile the whole time. I tried. I was hyped,” he said.

Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige, Kendrick Lamar, and 50 Cent also hit the stage during epic performance.

Amazingly, he almost skipped out on an opportunity to work with Dre when he thought about skipping a recording session with the legendary producer.

“I’ve got my own thing going. I don’t need to go and work on this. My manager was like, “Are you an idiot?” He was like, “Dude, you go, bro.’ Then I went, and it was like, wow, right there first two people meet Dre and D.O.C,” Paak said

“He was working on a project called Compton, and he was working with these two writers, Mez, who is my dog to this day, and JT, when they were like, ‘Yo, we love your song “Suede.” That was the song I had bubbling. He was like, ‘We love this, and we want to play it for Dre,’, he continued.  I was like, well, let’s make some new shit and  get them excited about something else, you know, in case they don’t like it, 

“When he heard he said, ‘What the fuck was that? And gave me two thumbs up.”