{"id":18191,"date":"2025-07-24T09:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T09:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/18191\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T09:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T09:27:07","slug":"us-rapper-reportedly-locked-in-for-afl-grand-final-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/18191\/","title":{"rendered":"US rapper reportedly locked in for AFL Grand Final entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"

The AFL has reportedly locked in entertainment for the 2025 grand final with a US rapper set to perform.<\/p>\n

US rapper Snoop Dogg is rumoured to be the artist to perform at the grand final in September this year.<\/p>\n

Host Ross Stevenson told 3AW\u2019s Rumour File<\/a> who the entertainment was to be for AFL\u2019s biggest day.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has been suggested to me that the grand final entertainment this year will be Snoop Dogg,\u201d Stevenson said on 3AW.<\/p>\n

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The rapper performed at the NFL Super Bowl halftime show in 2022 alongside a famous list of musicians including Dr Dre, Eminem, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar.<\/p>\n

Stevenson\u2019s co-host, Russel Howcroft, said that the AFL have reportedly taken full control of who plays the grand final.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know whether this is rumour or flesh on the bones or just adding to the story, but I believe what’s happening this year is that the AFL is taking full control of who is the entertainment at the grand final,\u201d Howcroft said on 3AW.<\/p>\n

“They used to let’s say outsource it. There was a third party involved; that third party is no longer involved, (now) it\u2019s all in-house.”<\/p>\n

Stevenson said Snoop Dogg is playing in the Philippines with Dr Dre and Ice Cube two days before the grand finals, which is only an eight-hour flight away.<\/p>\n

Katy Perry played last year’s grand final while KISS and Robbie Williams performed in 2023 and 2022 respectively.<\/p>\n

The AFL hasn\u2019t confirmed the entertainment for the Grand Final, which will take place on the 27th of September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The AFL has reportedly locked in entertainment for the 2025 grand final with a US rapper set to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-18191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}