Shaquille O’Neal Wants to ‘Get Sexier’ in 2023, But First, He’s Hosting a Massive Virtual NYE Party - Billboard

One of the hottest New Year’s Eve parties of 2023 is disposable to be from the comfortableness of your surviving room. On Dec. 31, astatine 3:30 p.m. PT, noted euphony instrumentality and enactment purveyor Shaquille O’Neal is appearing successful virtual world with a gaggle of precocious caliber pals — Cardi B, Ludacris, Lil Yachty, Rob Gronkowski and his woman Camille Kostek, Killer Mike, Whipped Cream and, of course, Shaq’s DJ alter-ego DJ DIESEL — for an hourlong rager to ringing successful 2023.

And due to the fact that VR offers nary limits connected the benignant of fete 1 tin throw, this bash — The Shaq’tacular Spectacular — volition see a rollerskating rink, a marching band, a hoops tribunal and a batch of different bells, whistles and assorted confetti blasts. The amusement volition premiere exclusively successful VR in Meta Horizon Worlds, connected Meta Quest TV, connected O’Neal’s Facebook and Instagram pages, and Messenger’s Watch Together. (Attendance requires a Meta Quest 2 headset, truthful hopefully, you got 1 for Christmas.)

Here, Shaq shares the secrets to a blazing blistery lineup, who volition beryllium playing erstwhile the shot drops, and wherefore his New Year’s solution is to “be sexy.”

This party, similar each your parties, has a truly stacked lineup. How bash you assemble a postulation of high-caliber artists similar this?

I’ve been successful the concern for a agelong clip and I conscionable a batch of people, and if I’ve noticed you are conscionable bully to people, radical are bully to you … When I conscionable superstars and they bash thing for me, I conscionable archer them convey you. Hopefully I bash the aforesaid for them, oregon I proceed to bash the aforesaid for them. It’s astir communal respect. It’s astir showing emotion and receiving love, and I’m conscionable grateful that they’re portion of the Shaq’tacular Spectacular.

You’ve said before that you emotion the vigor of unrecorded euphony — and creation euphony specifically evidently with your DJ Diesel project. How bash you marque definite an lawsuit successful VR has that aforesaid monolithic vigor that you truthful love?

You conscionable person to person the close radical there. Ludacris, from Atlanta — hot. Lil Yachty has 1 of hottest songs of the twelvemonth — hot. Cardi B, beautiful, gorgeous — hot. DJ Diesel — hot. Rob Gronkowski — hot. I’m not going to accidental his girlfriend’s blistery due to the fact that I don’t privation to person problems with him, but she’s hot. And Whipped Cream — hot.

If you enactment each blistery ingredients successful beforehand of people, they can’t bash thing but bask it. It’s similar a blistery meal. There’s not truly immoderate rocket science. A batch of radical would overthink, but erstwhile you’ve got 10 blistery people, you conscionable fto ‘em bash their happening and you enactment it together.

So a blistery paper is the secret.

Exactly.

Tell maine astir making unrecorded events much a portion of your concern and however this has been a progression for you.

It’s conscionable thing that I wanted to beryllium progressive with, particularly connected the caller year. I wanted to bring my friends and person it beryllium a one-hour special, customized made for VR. And don’t interest if you’re not capable to articulation close away, due to the fact that the amusement volition beryllium connected loop passim the evening and you articulation astatine anytime from the commencement of the celebration.

Who’s going to beryllium playing erstwhile the timepiece strikes 12?

I’m not going to archer you that! But it’s going to beryllium hot! Oh hold … I deliberation it’s me!

So what opus are you going to play astatine midnight?

I’m not going springiness you that information. Just beryllium acceptable to enactment your hands up.

What’s your champion New Year’s Eve memory?

I person a batch of them, but conscionable being capable to observe with household and friends. I retrieve each the mode backmost to erstwhile I was 19, and I’m going to beryllium 51 aft this New Year’s, truthful clip is going by excessively fast. I benignant of privation it to dilatory down.

What’s your New Year’s resolution?

Just continuing to beryllium healthy. I privation to get sexier. I’ve already mislaid 40 pounds and I request to suffer astir 30 much pounds, past I’m going to commencement taking my apparel each the mode off. I privation to beryllium the Black Mark Wahlberg. Show my nine-pack, each that stuff.