BY IVIE ANI • JANUARY 26 2019

Update: Nessa Diab, Colin Kapernick’s girlfriend, responded to the report that Travis Scott reached out to Kap before the rapper agreed to perform at the Super Bowl.

In December, it was announced that Travis Scott and Maroon 5 would be performing a the Super Bowl LII halftime show.

Scott has been criticized for the decision due to the NFL’s mistreatment of former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick.

The Houston rapper announced that he and the NFL would donate $500,000 to the non-profit social-justice organization Dream Corps, but new reports show he also had a conversation Kaepernick before he announced he’d accepted the gig.

According to Variety, a source close to Scott said that the two did not agree, but “they emerged from the conversation with mutual respect and understanding.”

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