American rapper and singer-songwriter MGK rocked Winnipeg’s Princess Auto Stadium during the Grey Cup halftime show.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Flanked by a backing band and CFL cheerleaders, the singer formerly known as Machine Gun Kelly performed a medley of his hits including “Don’t Wait Run Fast” off his latest album released this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The crowd greeted MGK by illuminating their phones creating a sea of lights.\u00a0<\/p>\n
MGK wore a football jersey during his performance, though not supporting either the Saskatchewan Roughriders or Montreal Alouettes, who are playing in the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He thanked the crowd for letting him and his band perform during the 112th championship game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The game started with a pre-show from Canadian rock group Our Lady Peace, who sang three songs, and the national anthem was sung by Manitoba country singer, Catie St. Germain.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Prime Minister Mark Carney was also on hand in Winnipeg for the game.<\/p>\n
Carney performed the customary coin toss at centre field at the start of the game to determine which team chooses the first move.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The prime minister was met with booing and expletive-filled shouting from some footballs fans in the stands at Princess Auto Stadium.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He smiled, waved and took some photos with game attendees.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Prior to the game starting, fans \u2014 many outfitted in Rider green \u2014 took part in a tailgate party outside the stadium.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American rapper and singer-songwriter MGK rocked Winnipeg’s Princess Auto Stadium during the Grey Cup halftime show.\u00a0 Flanked by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-292465","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-canadian-football-league","11":"tag-canadianfootballleague","12":"tag-cfl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}