Mary J. Blige recently sat down for an interview on The Cruz Show ahead of her highly anticipated performance at the Super Bowl LVI Pepsi Halftime Show, alongside Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, and Kendrick Lamar.
When asked about artists no longer getting paid to perform, Mary said that the Super Bowl show is bigger than money. She explained, "Listen, you gonna be paid for the rest of your life off of this. They don’t have to pay me. But if it was payin’ it would be a lot of money. But I’m good. This is the opportunity of a lifetime. Eminem says that in ‘Lose Yourself,’ this is the opportunity of a lifetime."
It was revealed in a report by Esquire that travel expenses and production cost are provided for artists, but they are not paid for their performance. It was revealed that the 2020 show with J.Lo and Shakira cost $13 million.
