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So, Justin Timberlake DID do a Prince tribute during his halftime show

Here's what everyone is saying.

Laura Vitto

on February 4, 2018

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Justin Timberlake included a Prince tribute in his Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday night – and the internet is skeptical.

As TMZ predicted, Timberlake performed before a massive projection of Prince and sang along to a snippet of the late musician's "I Would Die 4 U."

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The verdict? We'll let Twitter take it from here:

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On Saturday TMZ reported rumors that Timberlake would perform with a hologram of Prince on stage, though the gossip pub later updated its story to clarify that the tribute would actually "involve video projected on a sheet behind JT ... and not so much a hologram."

Still, Prince's friend and drummer Sheila E. was quick to remind folks that Prince was famously against holograms of late musicians. She later shared that she'd spoken with Timberlake to confirm that there would be no hologram – at least not technically – at the halftime show.

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Prince lived his life in Minnesota, and was born in Minneapolis where Sunday's game's going down. The musician played his own Super Bowl halftime show in 2007.

Laura Vitto

Laura Vitto was Mashable's Deputy Culture Editor.