--- title: Florida A&M Marching Band Steals Show With Hip Hop Covers description: Florida A&M may have lost this college football game to Tuskegee, but the real champs of the game were Florida's marching band. canonical: https://time.com/4500454/florida-am-marching-band-hip-hop-covers/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-19T21:50:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:36:44.475Z og:title: The Band Playing Rihanna's the Real Champ of This Football Game og:description: They played everyone from Kanye West to Chance the Rapper og:url: https://time.com/4500454/florida-am-marching-band-hip-hop-covers/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbff8581e83dda35b/6988a6c0a988caead66b9795/marching-band-hip-hop-song-covers.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Drum Major for Florida A&M University ma og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Band Playing Rihanna's the Real Champ of This Football Game twitter:description: They played everyone from Kanye West to Chance the Rapper twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbff8581e83dda35b/6988a6c0a988caead66b9795/marching-band-hip-hop-song-covers.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Marching Band Musicians Who Covered Rihanna Are the Real Champions of This Football Game > Sponsored content. 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AFP PHOTO/Roberto SCHMIDT (Photo credit should read ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images) JACKSONVILLE, UNITED STATES: Drum Major for Florida A&M University marching band performs during the Super Bowl pre-game show 06 February 2005 at Alltel Stadium in Jacksonville. AFP PHOTO/Roberto SCHMIDT (Photo credit should read ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images) ROBERTO SCHMIDT—AFP/Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Sep 19, 2016 9:50 PM UTC Florida A&M may have lost the [college football game](http://time.com/money/4473167/college-football-ticket-prices-facts/) against Tuskegee, but the real champs of the game were Florida’s marching band members who stole the show with [covers of popular hip-hop songs](http://time.com/4480435/spotify-song-of-the-summer-drake-one-dance/) by the [year’s hottest artists](http://time.com/4495859/chance-the-rapper-naacp-voting/). The band, called the Marching 100, performed songs by [Rihanna](http://time.com/4465225/drake-rihanna-relationship/), [Kanye West](http://time.com/4495022/kanye-west-kid-cudi-tweets-response-video/), [Future](http://time.com/4042046/drake-future-mixtape-apple-music/), and even [Chance the Rapper](http://time.com/4329035/chance-the-rapper-coloring-book/) during their game on Saturday. Judging by the overwhelmingly positive responses by the crowd, it looks like Florida definitely scored a touchdown — at least when it comes to entertainment off the field. Watch the amazing performances below. **Rihanna — “Kiss It Better”** **Kanye West — “Father, Stretch My Hands”** **Future — “March Madness”** **Chance the Rapper — “No Problem”** ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4500454/florida-am-marching-band-hip-hop-covers/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4500454/florida-am-marching-band-hip-hop-covers/"},"headline":"The Marching Band Musicians Who Covered Rihanna Are the Real Champions of This Football Game","datePublished":"2016-09-19T21:50:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:36:44.475Z","description":"They played everyone from Kanye West to Chance the Rapper","url":"https://time.com/4500454/florida-am-marching-band-hip-hop-covers/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Music","Culture"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbff8581e83dda35b/6988a6c0a988caead66b9795/marching-band-hip-hop-song-covers.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbff8581e83dda35b/6988a6c0a988caead66b9795/marching-band-hip-hop-song-covers.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Drum Major for Florida A&M University ma","caption":"Drum Major for Florida A&M University ma","creditText":"ROBERTO SCHMIDT—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4500454/florida-am-marching-band-hip-hop-covers/","name":"The Marching Band Musicians Who Covered Rihanna Are the Real Champions of This Football Game"}}]}] ```