Kendrick Lamar's relationship with school sweetheart fiancée at centre of Drake feud

Super Bowl halftime performer Kendrick Lamar has erstwhile called his fiancée Whitney Alford his "best friend" aft revealing she is idiosyncratic helium "can archer my fears to"

As Kendrick Lamar returns to the Super Bowl stage, 1 idiosyncratic successful peculiar who’ll beryllium cheering him connected is his fiancée Whitney Alford.

With past year’s Super Bowl being watched by an mean of 123.4 cardinal radical successful the US, performing astatine the lawsuit is thing galore artists aspire to - though Kendrick is nary alien to the iconic stage. Back successful 2022, the Humble hitmaker joined the likes of Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Mary J Blige and Dr Dre for a 14-minute acceptable that was bursting with hits. But now Kendrick, 37, is headlining the halftime arsenic the main act.

Having released his archetypal medium backmost successful 2011, his fiancée Whitney has been by his broadside each measurement of the way. The pair, who stock 2 children, met astatine precocious schoolhouse successful Compton, California. After becoming friends, Kendrick and Whitney aboriginal became a mates arsenic teens.

“Everybody that's been astir maine has been astir since Day 1 and I can't alteration that. I don't alteration for nobody,” the instrumentalist told Power 105.1. “People that person been by your broadside - you're expected to honour that.”

Meanwhile, during an interrogation with New York Times Magazine successful 2014, Kendrick was asked which influential idiosyncratic connected his telephone had “the powerfulness to telephone him out”. Describing his response, the writer of the portion wrote: “his reply was immediate: 'One peculiar young lady,' helium said, referring to Alford. ‘She's been present since Day 1.’”

One twelvemonth later, he revealed that he’d got engaged arsenic helium responded to rumours of a proposal. He besides gushed implicit Whitney, calling her his “best friend” during a heartwarming interrogation with Billboard.

“I wouldn’t adjacent telephone her my girl,” helium said. “That’s my champion friend. I don’t adjacent similar the word that nine has enactment successful the world arsenic acold arsenic being a companion - she’s idiosyncratic I tin archer my fears to.”

With much than 170,000 followers connected Instagram, Whitney has opened up astir feeling “grateful” to person her hubby successful her life. To people Father’s Day successful 2022, the mum-of-two celebrated the men successful her life.

“Happy Father’s Day fellas! Today I americium much than blessed to observe the men successful my life… I take to observe them for stepping up alternatively of stepping out, for providing, for assisting america women, for healing, for showing up physically and astir importantly for showing up emotionally,” she wrote.

Throughout Kendrick’s chart-topping career, Whitney has not lone provided affectional enactment and emotion - but she’s provided enactment connected his songs too. In 2015, she was credited connected the medium To Pimp a Butterfly aft providing backing vocals connected the tracks King Kunta and Wesley's Theory.

She besides appeared successful the euphony video for Not Like Us - Kendrick’s 'diss track' - and received a outcry retired from her beau astatine this year’s Grammys aft helium scooped Song of the Year. “Whitney successful the video crip walking,” Kendrick said arsenic helium collected his award. “We gon’ dedicate that one.”

In betwixt juggling her engaged manner arsenic a mum to 2 youngsters, Whitney is the laminitis of the LA-based non-profit organisation, Love + Ethos. According to its website, the organisation aims to make “supportive spaces and opportunities for women journeying done motherhood portion facing systemic, economic, and societal challenges.”

Explaining her mission, a connection connected the website read: “Much of my vocation has encompassed helping women to consciousness seen, heard, and appreciated. I’ve precocious acknowledged however this enactment comes from a place, heavy wrong my lineage, with generations of women helping women and raising families together.”

It added: “The situation for maine has been however to utilise my ain opportunities successful an impactful way. I anticipation to beryllium an plus to my assemblage done my enactment with Love + Ethos.”