Snoop Dogg to host 'Holiday Halftime Party' during Lions-Vikings Christmas Day game on Netflix

Snoop Dogg knows what you privation for Christmas.

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The rapper and popular civilization icon volition execute during the halftime amusement astatine the Detroit Lions-Minnesota Vikings crippled successful Minneapolis connected Dec. 25 arsenic portion of Netflix’s NFL Christmas Gameday streaming event.

Dubbed “Snoop’s Holiday Halftime Party,” the amusement volition diagnostic deed songs, peculiar guests and vacation cheer, Netflix said successful a quality release.

“NFL, Netflix and your uncle Snoop connected Christmas Day? We’re servin’ up music, emotion and bully vibes for the full satellite to enjoy,” Snoop Dogg said successful the quality release. “That’s the benignant of vacation magic Santa can’t acceptable successful a bag.”

On Tuesday, Netflix dropped an announcement video for the halftime show. In what whitethorn oregon whitethorn not beryllium a hint astatine the individuality of 1 of the peculiar guests, funk fable George Clinton narrates the clip. At 1 point, the Parliament-Funkadelic person utters, “bow wow wow, yippie yo yippie yay” — a enactment from his 1982 solo deed “Atomic Dog” that Snoop has utilized successful aggregate songs.

The once-polarizing gangsta rapper calved arsenic Calvin Broadus has go a beloved and ubiquitous mainstream personality. In the past fewer days alone, helium could beryllium seen connected prime-time TV arsenic a justice connected “The Voice” and rapping during the “Monday Night Football” intro.

Last week, the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee announced that Snoop has been named Team USA’s first-ever honorary manager for the Milano Cortina Games successful February. Snoop volition besides service arsenic a peculiar analogous during NBC’s sum of the Winter Olympics, a relation helium besides had during the 2024 Paris Games.

In April, Snoop was named arsenic 1 of Time magazine’s 100 astir influential radical of 2025.

Snoop has had a fig of holiday-themed endeavors, including the 1996 opus “Santa Claus Goes Straight to the Ghetto,” the 2008 compilation medium “Christmas successful the Dogghouse,” and the 2020 azygous “Doggy Dogg Christmas.” He besides performed a “Winter Wonderland”/”Here Comes Santa Claus” mashup with Anna Kendrick successful 2015’s “Pitch Perfect 2.”

Netflix volition watercourse 2 NFL games connected Christmas Day. The Dallas Cowboys volition play the Washington Commanders astatine 10 a.m. PST, with Kelly Clarkson performing earlier the game. The Lions-Vikings crippled starts astatine 1:30 p.m. PST.