Kendrick Lamar confirms SZA as special guest for Super Bowl performance
SZA will be joining Kendrick Lamar for his upcoming Super Bowl Halftime show performance – find out more below.
In September, the NFL, Apple Music and Kendrick Lamar confirmed that the ‘Not Like Us’ rapper wold be headlining the Super Bow LIX Halftime Show in New Orleans on February 9.
Kendrick said in a trailer at the time: “What you doing everybody? My name’s Kendrick Lamar, and I’ll be performing at Super Bowl LIX. Will you be pulling up? I hope so! You know there’s only one opportunity to win the championship, no round twos. Let’s get it!”
“I don’t want you to miss it. Meet me in New Orleans, February 9, 2025. Wear your best dress too, even if you’re watching from home. Let’s go.”
Now, Kendrick Lamar has revealed on of his set’s special guest performers. In a new ad to promote the performance for Apple Music, Kendrick is seen standing in a feel as people march around in the distance. Kendrick says while speaking on the phone: “You know this field a lot bigger than people think so that’s a must. Exactly. Nah, I been thinking about a guest performer.”
SZA then sneaks up behind him to douse him in blue Gatorade, a staple celebration seen during sporting events.
Kendrick Lamar and SZA have collaborated numerous times in the past, most recently linking up on his surprise album ‘GNX’ in November. She features on the song ‘Luther’.
Since then, the pair have announced a joint ‘Grand National’ North American stadium tour. The 19-date tour will commence at the U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis on April 19. From there, the two musicians will make their way across the US with stops in Houston, Atlanta, Charlotte, Philadelphia, East Rutherford, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Fransisco, Las Vegas, Chicago, Detroit and Toronto, before wrapping up on June 18 at the Northwest Stadium in Washington D.C. – visit here to purchase tickets.
In a glowing five-star review of the LP, NME‘s Kyann-Sian Williams wrote: “Lamar channels what could be interpreted as hate and negativity into a teachable moment, leading you to draw upon the purest emotion known to man: love. In a year that started with so much venom, Kendrick Lamar shares the antidote on ‘GNX’.”
The rapper’s track ‘Not Like Us’ landed the coveted second spot on NME‘s 50 Best Songs Of 2024 list, writing that the single “packaged intelligent, intensely researched character assassinations into a fierce, booming DJ Mustard-produced club hit. Though his savage, accusatory wordplay grabbed the headlines, it was Lamar’s dissection of Drake as “coloniser” that truly underlined his pure vitriol.”
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