Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show Performer Announced

Rapper Kendrick Lamar has announced he will perform at the 2025 Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show.

The NFL made the announcement just hours before the first Sunday games of the 2024 season began.

Lamar shared in a promotional video, “Rap music is still the most impactful genre to date. And I’ll be there to remind the world why. They got the right one.”

In past years, the NFL has received backlash for hosting performers who blatantly promote satanic imagery while on stage.

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Check out what Fox News reported:

Kendrick Lamar will headline the Super Bowl LIX’s halftime show in New Orleans in February.

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The NFL and Apple Music made the announcement hours before the league’s first full slate of Sunday games for the 2024 season got underway.

“Rap music is still the most impactful genre to date. And I’ll be there to remind the world why. They got the right one,” Lamar said in a news release.

Lamar is considered one of the greatest hip-hop acts of all time, and he solidified that during the summer in a rap feud with Drake. But the back-and-forth between this generation’s top rappers is only the tip of the iceberg for Lamar’s discography.

He’s accumulated 17 Grammy Award wins and became the first non-classical, non-jazz musician to win a Pulitzer Prize for his album “DAMN.” His last album, “Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers,” was released in 2022.

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Here’s what Variety reported:

Kendrick Lamar will perform at the 2025 Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime show, Roc Nation, Apple Music, and the NFL announced on Sunday.

Super Bowl LIX is scheduled to be played on February 9, 2025, at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans and will air on Fox.

The performance will be Lamar’s second during the halftime show, following his featured spot during Dr. Dre’s 2022 all-star tag team of Lamar, Mary J. Blige, Snoop Dogg, Eminem and 50 Cent. It also follows Lamar’s musical battle with Drake earlier this year, which not only resulted in a resounding win for the Compton-born rapper, but one of the year’s biggest songs with “Not Like Us.”