" Not Like Us " is hitting the large stagecoach .
Kendrick Lamarwas just named the 2025Super BowlHalftime performer, and the jokes immediately started pouring in — and, yes, a lot of them were aboutDrake.
Let me set the scene: It’s football Sunday. Just hours before the first official kickoff for the 2024 season, the NFL,Jay-Z’s Roc Nation, and Apple Music announced Kendrick will hit the stage on Feb. 9, 2025 for the Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show at at New Orleans’ Caesars Superdome.
.@KendrickLamar . Super Bowl LIX . New Orleans . February 2025.#AppleMusicHalftime@AppleMusic@RocNation@NFLonFOXpic.twitter.com/1XmZWutsWl
“Kendrick Lamar is truly a once-in-a-generation artist and performer," Jay-Z said in a statement, according toRolling Stone. “His deep love for hip-hop and culture informs his artistic vision. He has an unparalleled ability to define and influence culture globally. Kendrick’s work transcends music, and his impact will be felt for years to come.”
“Rap music is still the most impactful genre to date,” Kendrick added in a statement. “And I’ll be there to remind the world why. They got the right one.”
And Kendrick, who became the first hip-hop artist to be awarded the Pulitzer for his fourth studio albumDAMN., knows a little something about making an impact. The rapper took 2024 by storm when he dropped the summer anthem “Not Like Us” amid hisongoing beefwith fellow rapper Drake.
It didn’t take long for fans of both artists to crown Kendrick the victor of the beef. Now that Kendrick has been named the new Super Bowl Halftime performer, supporters can’t help but label it as another win for the Compton native.
Here’s how people online are reacting:
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How I ’m going to be in my support room when Kendrick does the Super Bowl halftime show!#KendrickLamar#NFLpic.twitter.com / SR03da0pxR
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Let ’s not block that Kendrick WILL be win a Grammy for ‘ Not Like Us ’ a week before his Super Bowl show . Aubrey , you ’re dust.pic.twitter.com/czz2vnzgA3
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The Grammys is a week before the Super Bowl as wellpic.twitter.com/MXpIId6If9
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do at the Super Bowl in reception to a song where the guy you beefing with say he was “ crowing as the Super Bowl ” is the craziest rebuttal in hip hop history .
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hating your path to the A-one arena has to be the greatest achievement in hate
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Kendrick went from being at abode beware his own business to headline the super bowl all because Drake did n’t screw how to plunk his battle .
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The entire TL looking at Drake : pic.twitter.com/2SALzGEXlA
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drake lover when their squad is down 14 at halftime and kendrick perform not like us 6 timespic.twitter.com/yAyBaW1pAH
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Francis Drake : Big as the Super BowlKendrick : https://t.co / YsPVdU0Tpupic.twitter.com / x9FvYT1VqP
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If I hear Not Like Us @ da Super Bowl 🤣 🤣 🤣 I m a cry
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Kendrick always reminds me that I ’m not hating to my fullest potential
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Kendrick Lamar do ‘ Not Like Us ’ to the domain at the Super Bowl . Might be the sterling Dis of all time , I fear .
