In October, Rihanna reignited her feud with Jennifer Lopez. Insinuating that JLo will do anything for money, the Grammy-winning rapper told Vogue she turned down the Super Bowl half-time show because she didn’t want to be a “sellout”.
“Absolutely,” she answered when asked if she turned down the Super Bowl halftime show in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick, a football quarterback and political activist known for kneeling during the national anthem in protest of police brutality and racial inequality in the United States.
“I couldn’t dare do that. For what? Who gains from that? Not my people. I just couldn’t be a sellout. I couldn’t be an enabler.
There’s things within that organization that I do not agree with at all, and I was not about to go and be of service to them in any way.”
Since Rihanna refused to perform, J-Lo and Shakira were announced to play the gigantic Super Bowl half-time show that will take place at Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium on February 20, 2020, which also happens to be Shakira’s 43rd birthday. The two artists have promised to ‘set the world on fire.’
Wearing an oversized belted faux shearling-trimmed faux leather coat from Balenciaga, Rihanna did not comment on her feud with Jennifer Lopez when leaving the Fashion Awards at Laylow Club in London. She toted Prada’s Galleria mini textured-leather tote that you can buy for $1,990 at Net-A-Porter.