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Whenever the NFL season starts to wind down and the Super Bowl creeps closer, the speculative talks begin of who could possibly perform at what amounts to the biggest concert of the year in the Super Bowl Halftime Show. And with that conversation, perhaps the biggest genre of music across the nation, hip-hop, rarely gets mentioned.
Well, it turns out, according to all-time great rhymer Big Boi, that oversight could have very much changed a decade ago back in 2004. Sir Lucious Left Foot himself appeared on The Dan Le Batard Show on ESPN Radio and spilled the beans that OutKast had a deal to perform on the nation’s biggest stage, but there was a slight condition that held the group back:
We were supposed to perform at the Super Bowl. We had two songs — “The Way You Move” and “Hey Ya” and [Andre 3000] didn’t want to split the songs up, he didn’t want to cut the songs. He wanted to do both songs, so he said, “Yeah, I can’t do it.”
Big Boi said he tried desperately to do some convincing, but ultimately, as we all know, it didn’t work out. Big Boi graciously took it in stride by saying, “Hopefully they invite us back.”
So, it sounds like maybe they wouldn’t have played the whole show and split the bill with someone else, and 3000 said you want us or you don’t. That’s a fair stance to take, but still, it would have been great to see the two guys that the hip-hop establishment didn’t want anything to do with release classic album after classic album only to realize their mainstream success peak at the Super Bowl. Hey, maybe it could still happen someday.
(via Pitchfork)