Shaboozey thinks Unhealthy Bunny is the right headliner for the Tremendous Bowl halftime present.
Shaboozey thinks Unhealthy Bunny is the right Tremendous Bowl headliner
The Puerto Rican rapper will carry out at subsequent 12 months’s NFL showpiece and the A Bar Tune (Tipsy) hitmaker – who carried out with Beyonce through the halftime present ultimately 12 months’s Christmas Day Sport – is absolutely supportive of the collection of the Latin famous person.
Shaboozey informed Billboard: “I believe it’s superior.
“It’s actually cool. I believe Unhealthy Bunny’s superior. I believe he’s a worldwide famous person, world icon — and an American citizen. There’s no more sensible choice.”
He added: “Additionally, it’s going to be loopy. Any time a Unhealthy Bunny music comes on, the entire place erupts.”
Some, together with US President Donald Trump, have criticised the selection of Unhealthy Bunny because the halftime present performer however Shaboozey believes it displays the NFL’s ambition to “globalise” the game.
The 30-year-old artist stated: “I’ve seen the NFL has been making an attempt to increase, and, you realize, my brother Myles Smith taking part in up in Dublin at certainly one of their season openers … they’re clearly making an attempt to globalise the model.
“Soccer’s such a beloved sport — why not not take it to different locations?”
In the meantime, Shaboozey has teased that his upcoming album will likely be about “feminism” and that he’s arduous at work at perfecting the follow-up to final 12 months’s document The place I’ve Been, Is not The place I am Going.
He stated: “[It’s about] feminism, I’ll say that. Femininity might be the most effective phrase I can use. There’s a narrative there. It’s an idea album, however y’all are the primary to know that, to be sincere. It’s a Western idea album about femininity — I shouldn’t have informed you that!”
Shaboozey signed artist Kevin Powers as the primary act to his American Dogwood label final month and is eager to get extra musicians on board as soon as they “cross (his) radar”.
He stated of Powers: “He’s superior.
“He’s additionally from Carolina, so I believe that ties again into my origins and simply the love I’ve for that area, which I really feel like generally is a forgotten area — Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland. I really feel like we’re type of neglected of loads of conversations for one motive or one other, however I really feel like we’ve began so many developments and began so many issues. There’s a lot historical past over there.”