The Wu is coming to Thanksgiving — and Eminem made the call.

The Detroit Lions announced Nov. 1 that Wu-Tang Clan will headline the halftime show of the Thanksgiving Day Classic (powered by Verizon) on Thursday, Nov. 26, when the Lions host the Chicago Bears at Ford Field in the 87th annual Thanksgiving game. Kickoff is 1 p.m. ET, and the game airs nationally on CBS.

Eminem and his longtime manager Paul Rosenberg are executive-producing the halftime show for the second straight year — and they hand-picked the Clan for the gig. Michigan native Antonio Cipriano of Grosse Pointe Woods will sing the national anthem before kickoff.

The timing makes it a two-week victory lap for the group. Wu-Tang Clan enters the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this Saturday, Nov. 14, then takes one of the NFL’s biggest regular-season stages just 12 days later — all as the group’s farewell tour wraps up. From the Hall of Fame stage to Ford Field on Thanksgiving, it is the kind of closing stretch few acts ever get.

It is also a full-circle Detroit moment: a New York crew, chosen by Detroit’s own biggest rap star, headlining the Lions’ Thanksgiving game in front of a national audience.

Related on ToledoBuzz: the Clan’s Rock Hall induction is covered in our Nov. 9 preview, and Wu-Tang’s Mathematics just dropped the ‘Black Samson’ album days before the induction.

Sources: Detroit Lions | Parade | Detroit Free Press

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