Super Bowl 2025: Rapper Kendrick Lamar to headline half-time show in New Orleans

Rapper Kendrick Lamar will headline the Super Bowl half-time show in New Orleans next year. The NFL, Apple Music and Roc Nation announced on Sunday that Lamar would lead the half-time festivities from the Caesars Superdome on February 9, live on Sky Sports.

The rapper, who has won 17 Grammys, said he is looking forward to bringing hip-hop to the NFL’s championship game, where he performed as a guest artist with Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg in 2022. Rap music is still the most impactful genre to date,” Lamar said. “And I’ll be there to remind the world why. They got the right one.”

Lamar has experienced massive success since his debut album “good kid, m.A.A.d city” in 2012. He became the first non-classical, non-jazz musician to win a Pulitzer Prize for his 2017 album DAMN.The rapper’s latest album Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers was released in 2022. He was featured on the song Like That with Future and Metro Boomin on a track that spent three weeks at No 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 this year.

Source: People

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