Snoop Dogg, Chris Stapleton Remake Phil Collins’ “In The Air Tonight’ For NFL Monday Night Football
Snoop Dogg and Chris Stapleton have teamed up to recreate Phil Collins’ classic hit “In The Air Tonight” for NFL Monday Night Football.
Debuting yesterday (Sept. 18) as the opening theme for this season’s second MNF broadcast, the rollicking rendition of Collins’ 1981 single was accompanied by a cinematic clip featuring Snoop, Stapleton, and drummer Cindy Blackman Santana.
Aired ahead of the matchup between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Cleveland Browns, the video begins with a lowrider vehicle, later revealed to be driven by Snoop Dogg, arriving at a tailgate party. Stapleton can be seen tuning into the game from the comfort of his home on a stormy evening before delivering the opening vocals of the original.
Videos of each team executing plays and celebrating are spliced between cuts of Stapleton and Snoop performing their portions of the track, with the latter reeling off a quick-strike verse steeped in the spirit of competition. “Rivals, us first them survival/ We must win, it’s tribal, my team like kin/ By any means necessary/ When head-to-head, we’re adversaries,” the 51-year-old raps while surrounded by dancers.
Clad in a gold and white outfit with a headscarf and shades, he bops to the instrumentation, rhyming, “Nothing is given, so we gotta take it/ It’s 4th and Inches, so we gotta make it,” before asking the listeners, attendees and viewers at home can they “feel it.”
Produced in part by Dave Cobb, Stapleton and Snoop Dogg’s Monday Night Football intro marks the continuation of each artists relationship with the NFL in recent times. Last Monday (Sept. 11), Stapleton’s new single “White Horse” helped open the first MNF broadcast of the season, and the renowned guitarist also performed the national anthem at Super Bowl LVII earlier this year.
In 2022, Snoop Dogg appeared alongside Dr. Dre, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, 50 Cent, Mary J. Blige, and Anderson .Paak during an epic Super Bowl Halftime Show performance at Super Bowl LVI at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles.
Watch the Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show performance below.
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