Kendrick Lamar to headline 2025 Tremendous Bowl LIX halftime present

Kendrick Lamar will headline the 2025 Tremendous Bowl halftime present.

Apple Music, Roc Nation, the NFL, and Lamar himself have confirmed that three years after he joined Dr. Dre‘s star-studded halftime present, the rapper will make the stage his personal on Feb. 9, 2025, in New Orleans.

“Rap music remains to be probably the most impactful style thus far,” Lamar mentioned in an announcement shared with Leisure Weekly. “And I will be there to remind the world why. They bought the proper one.”

A video shared throughout his socials options the “Euphoria” rapper urging followers to tune in to the occasion whereas he stands earlier than an enormous American flag on a soccer discipline.

“My identify is Kendrick Lamar, and I will be acting at Tremendous Bowl LIX,” he says within the clip. “Will you be pulling up? I hope so.”

He provides, ” there’s just one alternative to win a championship. No spherical twos. Let’s get it.”

Lamar’s upcoming efficiency marks the sixth 12 months that Jay-Z’s Roc Nation will program the present. “Kendrick Lamar is actually a once-in-a-generation artist and performer,” Jay-Z mentioned in an announcement. “His deep love for hip-hop and tradition informs his creative imaginative and prescient. He has an unparalleled skill to outline and affect tradition globally. Kendrick’s work transcends music, and his affect might be felt for years to come back.”

The announcement continues Lamar’s momentum this 12 months. He has topped the Billboard charts along with his new anthems, “Not Like Us” and “Like That,” that includes Future and Metro Boomin. He additionally garnered buzz for popping out on prime in his newest feud with Drake, which noticed the 2 verbally sparring with competing diss tracks.

Lamar has loved crucial and business acclaim because the launch of his 2011 mixtape, Part.80. For his 2017 album, DAMN, he received 17 Grammys and the Pulitzer Prize for music, making him the primary non-classical or jazz artist to attain the distinguished honor. 

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Whereas this would possibly not be Lamar’s first time on the Tremendous Bowl stage, it will likely be his first efficiency because the occasion’s headliner. In 2022, Lamar was considered one of a number of icons featured in Dr. Dre‘s West Coast hip-hop showcase: Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, and Eminem have been additionally current to play their hits for an viewers of 100 million. 

Usher headlined final 12 months’s halftime present, which not solely earned three Emmy nominations, however turned the most-watched halftime efficiency of all time.

Apple Music will current the 2025 Tremendous Bowl halftime present, which takes place at The Caesars Superdome in New Orleans on Feb. 9. It can additionally air on Fox.