Kendrick Lamar performs at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival last summer in Manchester, Tenn.
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Kendrick Lamar will return to the Super Bowl stage, this time as the headliner.
The Grammy Award-winning rapper will perform Apple Music’s halftime show at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans on February 9, 2025, the NFL, Apple Music, Roc Nation and Lamar himself announced on Sunday.
“Rap music is still the most influential genre of all time. And I’ll be there to remind the world why,” Lamar said in a statement. “They got the right guy.”
NFL Head of Music Seth Dudowsky added, “Few artists have had as profound an impact on music and culture as Kendrick Lamar. Kendrick has demonstrated his unique ability to create moments that resonate, redefine, and ultimately shake the foundations of hip-hop.”
Since the release of his breakthrough album good kid, mAAd city In 2012, Lamar won 17 Grammy Awards and became the first non-classical, non-jazz musician to win a Pulitzer Prize for his 2017 album DAMNED.
Although the Compton, California native hasn’t released an album since 2022, he’s escaped big summerHis single “Not Like Us,” a diss track aimed at Canadian rapper Drake, spent two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in June.
Lamar performed at Super Bowl 2022 Halftime Showtime performing in Los Angeles with other rap and hip-hop stars.
