Kendrick Lamar brings the heat to Super Bowl 2025 Halftime Show: Best photos from the performance
Kendrick Lamar's 2025 Super Bowl Halftime Show has concluded, and it did not disappoint the audience.
Kendrick Lamar performs for the Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show on February 9, 2025, at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, LA.
In fact, the 13-minute showcase between halves of the Philadelphia Eagles vs. Kansas City Chiefs game kept fans riled up from start to finish, with the Compton rapper performing back-to-back hits from his latest Billboard 200-topping album, GNX, as well as other chart-toppers from previous years, including 2017's "Humble" and "DNA."
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Producer Mustard had his big moment next to Lamar when he performed "TV Off," while frequent collaborator and soon-to-be tourmate SZA joined him on the field at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans to help perform their 2018 Black Panther duet "All the Stars" and 2024 team-up "Luther." In addition, Samuel L. Jackson reprised his role as Uncle Sam, wearing a tailcoat and top hat and yelling interjections between songs.
The undeniable highlight of the evening, however, was when Dot, minutes after teasing the audience early in the act, finally went into the song everyone was waiting for, Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 smash and 2024 culture-defining diss track "Not Like Us." Moments after smiling directly into the camera and teasing, "Say, Drake, I hear you like 'em young," Lamar was joined by tens of thousands of football fans who yelled, "Tryna strike a chord and it's probably A minor!"
Aside from Lamar and his A-list collaborators, hundreds of red-white-and-blue-clad dancers, as well as a staff of behind-the-scenes personnel who pulled together the hip-hop titan's multilayer, 360-degree staging, executed 2025's epic halftime show flawlessly. Relive the already famous performance by looking through some of the best photographs from the concert below.
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