Rap megastar Kendrick Lamar will headline the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kendrick Lamar will come out on the NFL’s largest stage subsequent 12 months: The Grammy winner will headline the Apple Music Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present in New Orleans.

The NFL, Apple Music and Roc Nation introduced Sunday that Lamar would lead the halftime festivities from the Caesars Superdome on Feb. 9. The rap megastar, who has received 17 Grammys, mentioned he’s wanting ahead to bringing hip-hop to the NFL’s championship recreation, the place he carried out as a visitor artist with Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg in 2022.

“Rap music continues to be essentially the most impactful style so far,” Lamar mentioned in an announcement. “And I’ll be there to remind the world why. They obtained the correct one.”

Lamar has skilled large success since his debut album “good child, m.A.A.d metropolis” in 2012. Since then, he is gathered 17 Grammy wins and have become the primary non-classical, non-jazz musician to win a Pulitzer Prize for his 2017 album “DAMN.”

The rapper’s newest album “Mr. Morale & The Huge Steppers,” was launched in 2022. He was featured on the music “Like That” with Future and Metro Boomin on a observe that spent three weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Scorching 100 this 12 months. He additionally garnered one other hit with “Not Like Us.”

Roc Nation founder Jay-Z known as Lamar a “once-in-a-generation” artist and performer.

“His deep love for hip-hop and tradition informs his creative imaginative and prescient,” Jay-Z mentioned. “He has an unparalleled potential to outline and affect tradition globally. Kendrick’s work transcends music, and his influence might be felt for years to come back.”

Roc Nation and Emmy-winning producer Jesse Collins will function co-executive producers of the halftime present. The inventive path of Lamar’s efficiency might be offered by pgLang.

Jonathan Landrum Jr., The Related Press