Award-winning rap megastar Kendrick Lamar will return to carry out in iPhone maker Apple’s 2025 Tremendous Bowl half-time present this February, his first look since 2022. This time, nonetheless, he is the headliner.
Lamar’s earlier Tremendous Bowl half-time showcase, which included different rap artists together with Dr. Dre, Eminem, Mary J. Blige and Snoop Dogg, received a 2022 Emmy Award for Excellent Selection Particular (Reside). He has received different awards for his ingenious lyrics, together with the Pulitzer Prize for music, the primary hip-hop artist to take action, in addition to a Grammy.
The Tremendous Bowl is among the largest televised sports activities occasion within the US, routinely drawing tens of hundreds of thousands of viewers. The NFL’s Seth Dudowsky stated of Lamar that “time and time once more, Kendrick has confirmed his distinctive capability to craft moments that resonate, redefine, and finally shake the very basis of hip-hop.”
In 2024, Lamar scored a significant hit together with his single “Not Like Us,” however acquired significantly extra publicity out of his public feud with Canadian rapper Drake. Each artists launched “diss tracks” about one another.
In a press launch from the Nationwide Soccer League and Apple asserting the half-time present, Lamar stated that the Tremendous Bowl “acquired the best one” to move this 12 months’s occasion. “Rap music continues to be essentially the most impactful style thus far. And I will be there to remind the world why.”
Tremendous Bowl LIX will happen in New Orleans, LA on February ninth, 2025. Kick-off will likely be at 6:30pm, Jap time.