Who appears on the Super Bowl? What to know about Kendrick Lamar

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Being selected as an artist at the Super Bowl Halfime Show can be a gift to those who accept the invitation from the NFL.

With an expected audience of over 100 million people watching the Super Bowl, exposure can increase record sales and bring a whole new audience to a music genre that some may not be familiar with.

This year’s Super Bowl-half-time athlete is award-winning hip-hop artist Kendrick Lamar. Lamar has appeared in a former Super Bowl when he was a co-headliner with Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, 50 Cent and Mary J. Blige in the Super Bowl 56 in Inglewood, California. This performance won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Special (Live).

What to know about Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick Lamar Duckworth was born on June 17, 1987 in Compton, California.

He was first signed on demand for demand and Interscope records and released his first album, “Section.80”, in 2011. His next release catapuled him into Mainstream with 2012’s “Good Kid, Maad City”, which has used more than 12 years on Billboard 200 album diagrams. His albums have sold nearly 8 million copies in the United States, with four frames # 1 on the charts.

Kendrick Lamar Awards

Kendrick Lamar is one of the most decorated hip-hop artists in history and won 17 Grammy Awards, including Wins for Best Rap Album, Damn. (2018) and for Mr. Moral & The Big Steppers (2023)

This year he has been nominated for the Seven Grammy Awards: Record of the Year of the Year, Song, twice to Best Rap Performance, twice for best rap song and best music video.

Lamar has also won 37 Bet Hip Hop Awards and seven Billboard Music Awards, but what has separated him is to win the Pulitzer award winner 2018 in music for his album Damn., To become the first non-classic or jazz artist to be awarded.

The Pulitzer Board said the damn. was “a virtuoso song collection gathered by its linguistic authenticity and rhythmic dynamics that offer affecting vignettes that capture the complexity of modern African American life.”

Beef with Drake

Rap-ox meat is part of the hip-hop culture, as the music itself and the latest word war between top-selling artists have involved wounded emotions, internet chatting and several litigation. The beginning of the Lamar-Drake cooking meat seems to be the 2024 release of “Like That” by Lamar, Future and Metro Boomin. Lamar then released “Euphoria” and “6:16 in LA”, and Drake hit back with “Family Matters.”

Lamar then returned with “Not Like Us”, a # 1 Billboard Hot 100 hit, nominated for five Grammy Awards this year and has been streamed more than a billion times. In the song, Lamar accuses Drake of being a pedophile.

In January 2025, Drake Universal Music Group in Federal Court sued for defamation and harassment of “Not Like Us”, saying that the record company released the song, although Pedophilia charges against him are false.

“The trial is not about the artist who created ‘not like us,'” the trial said. “Instead, it’s all about UMG, the music company that decided to publish, promote, exploit and make money on accusations that it understood not only false but dangerous.”

Previous Super Bowl -Half -time athletes

Last year, the R&B artist excited the amount at the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada. Click here to see History of the Super Bowl Halfime Performance.