Kendrick Lamar says his Super Bowl show will be about ‘storytelling’

Rapper Kendrick Lamar has said his Super Bowl half-time amusement connected Sunday volition beryllium astir “storytelling” and volition “make radical listen”.

The 37-year-old volition instrumentality to the signifier astatine the American shot game, betwixt Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs, alongside vocalist SZA, aft winning 5 awards including opus of the twelvemonth and grounds of the twelvemonth astatine the Grammy Awards past weekend.

Urged to springiness a hint astatine his performance, the 22-time Grammy victor said: “(People should expect) storytelling, I deliberation I’ve ever been precise unfastened astir storytelling done each my catalogue and my past of music, and I’ve ever had a passionateness astir bringing that connected immoderate signifier I’m on.

“Whether it’s a satellite circuit oregon whether it was 500 radical astatine Key Club, I’ve ever had a look there, truthful a consciousness of making radical listen, but besides spot and deliberation a little.”

He added: “Being successful the present and being conscionable locked into however I feel, and the vigor I person now, that’s the LA vigor for me, that’s thing that I wanted to transportation implicit to New Orleans and for the satellite to see.

“This is me, this is Kendrick Lamar astatine 37 years old, and I inactive consciousness similar I’m elevating, I’m inactive connected the travel though, I privation that vigor to ooze retired to the televisions, and to the radical that’s successful the building.”

Lamar besides paid tribute to SZA, existent sanction Solana Rowe, saying the brace had not had a accidental to instrumentality successful the infinitesimal owed to rehearsals and accumulation work.

The Squabble Up rapper said: “For me, personally, watching her career, and wherever she’s travel from, it’s astonishing to see.

“I get to yet spot however definite individuals, spot maine travel up successful the process, due to the fact that I seen her time one, coming successful the workplace and penning songs, throwing distant songs, penning different song, throwing distant songs, and songs is hard.

“I understood that process though, wanting to beryllium great, adjacent erstwhile she was saying, ‘this is simply a classical record’, she was like, ‘no, I’m going to constitute different one’, and I understood that, and I’ve seen it.

“So, to spot present magnified, it’s like, she ever had it, man, she ever had it, and I’m conscionable honoured to beryllium adjacent to a talent.”

The rapper went connected to accidental that erstwhile helium began performing helium had ne'er thought astir performing astatine the Super Bowl.

Lamar said: “I wasn’t reasoning astir nary Super Bowl, we was reasoning astir the champion verse and however we going to divided this 5 dollars astatine Church’s Chicken oregon thing similar that.

“It wasn’t nary Super Bowl, (it was) going to the workplace and getting a meal.

“But what I cognize is the passionateness I person now, is inactive the passionateness I had then, and I deliberation that carried connected to the Super Bowl.”

The half-time amusement has go a staple astatine the NFL’s last crippled of the season, with stars specified arsenic Prince, the Rolling Stones, Beyonce, Michael Jackson and Lady Gaga, each performing well-remembered sets.

Sunday’s amusement volition beryllium Lamar’s 2nd show connected the Super Bowl stage, having antecedently performed with Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J Blige, 50 Cent and Anderson Paak, successful 2022 arsenic portion of a tribute to hep hop.

Lamar released his sixth workplace album, GLX, past year, having achieved 11 UK apical 10 singles and 2 UK fig 1 albums; the rapper won a Pulitzer Prize for his grounds Damn successful 2018.