Michael Jackson & Prince's Super Bowl Halftime Shows Weren't Better Than Dr. Dre's I CLUB SHAY SHAY

TL;DR

Anderson .Paak argues Dr. Dre's Super Bowl halftime show surpassed Michael Jackson's and Prince's iconic performances because it represented his era.

Key Points

• 1.Dr. Dre's halftime show is picked over Michael Jackson's 1993 Rose Bowl performance. The guest (who performed in the Dre show) calls it the greatest, with MJ's 1993 Rose Bowl show as the only real competition, while praising Kendrick and Bad Bunny as well.
• 2.Prince's Purple Rain performance in Miami is called legendary. The silhouette-behind-a-curtain staging, combined with rain literally falling as he played 'Purple Rain,' made it an iconic moment the speaker says 'you had to be there' to experience.
• 3.The Game gave the speaker an early career boost by inviting him to record surrounded by 80 Bloods and 100 models. After the session the crowd went crazy, and Game told him he was his favorite artist and predicted he would blow up — which quickly proved true.
• 4.Studio environment preferences depend on the project, but the speaker favors having a couple of women present for energy and real-time feedback. A packed control room adds an entertainment element; deeply personal or experimental work is better done alone with just an engineer.
• 5.Justin Timberlake brought the speaker into the Trolls project alongside producers Ludwig Göransson and James Fauntleroy. A session where JT left early yielded an ending-credit song, and the speaker's enthusiasm landed him a voice role as part of the Funk Trolls in Trolls Too.