{"id":463235,"date":"2026-02-09T06:17:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T06:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/463235\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T06:17:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T06:17:13","slug":"meek-mill-defends-bad-bunny-super-bowl-show-everything-aint-for-everybody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/463235\/","title":{"rendered":"Meek Mill Defends Bad Bunny Super Bowl Show, \u2018Everything Ain\u2019t For Everybody\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ae460d171bf64189828009497a100d5f_md.jpg\" alt=\"020726_meek_mill_kal\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    TMZSports.com<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/meek-mill\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Meek Mill<\/a> is shutting down the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/bad-bunny\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bad Bunny<\/a> halftime show haters &#8230; telling <a href=\"https:\/\/tmz.com\/sports\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">TMZ Sports<\/a> the global superstar absolutely deserves the Super Bowl spotlight.<\/p>\n<p>The Philly rapper weighed in outside the Fanatics luncheon on Friday as debate continues to swirl over the NFL tapping the Latin music icon for the coveted performance slot \u2026 with some critics questioning whether Bad Bunny\u2019s style and Spanish catalog will connect with viewers.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260130_aefada8c886848569c860432f46d864a\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:dcec3468-3f5b-4680-8415-49d542bb67c4\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/aefada8c886848569c860432f46d864a_md.jpg\" alt=\"bad bunny sub getty swipe\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he\u2019s going to do well,\u201d Meek said. \u201cHe\u2019s a great artist, one of the legends and I think everybody deserves a shot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Meek\u2019s firmly in Bad Bunny\u2019s corner and isn\u2019t buying the criticism &#8230; saying music has never been one-size-fits-all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a certain type of music, and we\u2019ve all got a certain type of music,\u201d he explained. \u201cI don\u2019t think everybody listens to Meek Mill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Meek says he\u2019s personally embraced Spanish-language collaborations before \u2026 pointing to his work with Anuel AA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve got Anuel on my album (Championships), his verse is in all Spanish. I love it,\u201d Meek said.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20240302_be5a7de662a64840a4fe8bcf620279da\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:dcec3468-3f5b-4680-8415-49d542bb67c4\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/be5a7de662a64840a4fe8bcf620279da_md.jpg\" alt=\"meek mill sub\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>As for fans arguing the halftime show should cater to broader tastes &#8230; Meek basically says people should stay in their own lanes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think they\u2019re too in-tune &#8212; stay in your world,\u201d he said. \u201cYou know what I mean? Stay where you want with whatever you\u2019ve got going on. Everything ain\u2019t for everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meek also kept things light during the convo &#8212; when asked who goes hardest at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/michael-rubin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Rubin<\/a>\u2019s famously star-packed parties, he didn\u2019t hesitate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProbably me or Travis!!!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Play video content TMZSports.com Meek Mill is shutting down the Bad Bunny halftime show haters &#8230; telling TMZ&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341,44,82,865,866],"class_list":["post-463235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-tmz-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463235","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=463235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}