Travis Scott may join Maroon 5 on uncertain Super Bowl lineup

Rapper Travis Scott will reportedly perform alongside Maroon 5 during the Super Bowl halftime show, according to TMZ. The Associated Press stopped short of confirming the news but quoted a source as saying Scott is in talks to join the lineup.

The NFL has been typically mum on the halftime show lineup for Super Bowl LIII, which will be Feb. 3 in Atlanta. The organization has not yet confirmed Maroon 5’s headlining gig — reported widely in September — and reps for the league did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday.

The halftime show would be the latest in a streak of career highlights for Scott, born Jacques Webster. His album “Astroworld,” released in August, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, where it has remained in various Top 10 spots. Scott, who recently added more tour dates for his critically acclaimed Astroworld tour, also covers the January 2019 issue of Rolling Stone, which dubs him “rap’s newest superstar.”

Entertainment slots for the upcoming halftime show have reportedly been tough to fill amid outcry over the National Football League’s alleged blacklisting of Colin Kaepernick. The former San Francisco 49ers quarterback set off controversy in 2016 when he began kneeling during the national anthem in protest of police brutality against black Americans. In the years since, hundreds of other NFL players have followed suit in a campaign against racial inequality.

In October, Us Weekly reported that Rihanna had turned down an offer to headline the halftime show in support of Kaepernick. Jay-Z, an outspoken supporter of the NFL free agent, implied that he had done the same on the song “Apes—,” released in June.

The song is the lead single from “Everything Is Love,” the rapper’s joint album with his wife, Beyonce, who courted controversy during the 2016 Super Bowl halftime show — headlined by Coldplay — with a politically charged performance that evoked the Black Lives Matter organization.