SUPERBOWL - DR DRE with Kendrick Lamar, Eminem, Mary J Blige, Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent and Anderson Paak The MLK Memorial - seen at the south end of the stadium ‘street’ - was built in 1977 - conceived by trail blazing architect Harold Williams - (the only black student on his Ohio architecture course and in 1958 only the 9th African American architect to be licensed in California), in collaboration with Canadian sculptor Gerald Gladstone who was trained at the Royal College of Art under British sculptor Henry Moore. The planes of the memorial emulate the form of a mountain to reflect King’s statement that he had ‘been to the mountaintop’. A quote from MLK is inscribed at the site: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”. The Compton Courthouse - including its jail - also designed by Harold Williams - is the tallest building in Compton , visible for miles, Compton’s only skyscraper . It features in Straight Outta Compton as the place where Compton rapper Eazy E bails the young Dr Dre out of jail. In the halftime show Detroit poet and rapper Eminem starts his performance of ‘Forgot about Dre’ hidden within the Courthouse /jail as Dre listens from his recording studio. Eminem busts out of the building, sending pieces of it flying and makes his way over the the recording studio to join Dre and Anderson Paak and the rest of the band to perform his 2002 track Lose Yourself - the first hip hop track to win an Academy Award for best soundtrack as a cast of Compton school kids leap to their feet and flood the field. (The field cast are all drawn from local Compton and South LA dance and performance groups). SoFi Stadium Los Angeles Sunday 13 February 2022