The Super Bowl Halftime Show is adding two more rappers to the line up, and making history in the process.
Two deaf rappers, Sean Forbes and Warren “WaWa” Snipe, will join Dr. Dre, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar, and Mary J. Blige on stage, to sign the star-studded halftime show.
This is the first time in the NFL’s history that sign interpreters will be included in the halftime show of the biggest football game of the year.
Forbes, a Detroit-based rapper, told the Detroit Free Press, the historic invitation has a deeper meaning since his father is close to people in Eminem’s circle.
“The doors to accessibility are busted wide open with something like this,” Forbes said. “So this is very much a full-circle moment, being from Detroit, being part of the Eminem camp –– or even going back to being 12 and listening to N.W.A, Dre, and Snoop on my Walkman,” the rapper added.
“My goal is to get out there, show what we can do, and have fun. And I want to open the door for other deaf performers.”
While the February 13 game will be Forbes’ first time performing at the Super Bowl, Snipe performed alongside Jazmine Sullivan and Eric Church last year for the national anthem and “America the Beautiful.”
WaWa told The Washington Post at the time that performing through sign language requires the performer to feel the music.
“I would listen to the music over and over to get a feel of the music and the singing,” Snipe told The Post last year. “This takes a lot of time and you want to make sure you’re understood, so playing with various ways to interpret a song is warranted!”
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