Kendrick Lamar doing in Miami Gardens, Florida, on July 24, 2022.
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Rapper Kendrick Lamar will definitely heading the Super Bowl LIX halftime program in New Orleans, the NFL revealed Sunday.
“Rap music is still the most impactful genre to date. And I’ll be there to remind the world why. They got the right one,” Lamar, 37, said in an NFL-released declaration.
Lamar is amongst one of the enhanced rap artists in background. He has 17 Grammy Awards, 29 WAGER Awards, and received a Pulitzer Prize for songs in 2018– the preliminary artist to win past the timeless or jazz classes.
Roc Nation and Jesse Collins, an Emmy- profitable producer, will definitely operate as co-executive producers of the Apple Music halftime program.
“Kendrick Lamar is truly a once-in-a-generation artist and performer,” Roc Nation proprietor Jay- Z said in a declaration. “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.”
His 2024 solitary “Not Like Us,” a diss track aimed at Canadian pop star Drake, was simply certainly one of one of the pop music of the summer season season, debuting atNo 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. It likewise got here to be the quickest rap monitor to reach 700 million vapors on Spotify.
Lamar has really not launched a cd contemplating that 2022’s “Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers.” He elevated to significance within the very early part of the 2010s. His 2nd workshop cd, “Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City,” was launched in 2012 and was accredited three-way platinum.
Super Bowl LIX will definitely occur onFeb 9. Lamar previously executed at Super Bowl LVI in 2022 in Los Angeles together with quite a few varied different rap artists and hip-hop celebrities in a West Coast- themed program.
