Super Bowl 2025 halftime show: Kendrick Lamar teases 'wild and interesting' set list

Kendrick Lamar has opened up astir his upcoming show astatine the Super Bowl 2025, hinting that it's been a hard task to condense his euphony into 13 minutes

Kendrick Lamar has opened up astir his upcoming Super Bowl 2025 halftime amusement acceptable list.

The rapper, 37, was announced arsenic the header enactment of the halftime amusement successful September past twelvemonth following his feud with chap rapper, Drake. While it whitethorn beryllium his archetypal clip headlining the immense event, Kendrick has antecedently performed astatine the Sueprbowl, backmost successful 2022, with Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg.

He'll beryllium joined by collaborator SZA who volition look arsenic impermanent during his lavish show which is estimated to past betwixt 12 and 15 minutes during the crippled betwixt the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs astatine the Caesars Superdrome successful New Orleans. Rumours person besides suggested that Taylor Swift, the woman of Chiefs prima Travis Kelce whitethorn besides marque an appearance, having collaborated with Kendrick connected the way Bad Blood.

But conscionable days earlier helium takes to the stage, Kendrick has shared an penetration into his setlist and admitted it has been hard to constrictive down his tracks which see his 2011 debut, HiiiPower and All the Stars, featuring SZA. "It's wild," helium said, adding: "Mr. Morale is similar an hr and 30 infinitesimal tour, truthful you gotta smack this s**t down each the mode to 13 minutes!"

Appearing astatine the Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show conference, helium added: "It's benignant of chaotic and it's interesting, due to the fact that it lets you cognize benignant of wherever you astatine successful your perspective, however you deliberation astir catalogue and music. For me, I emotion being present, I emotion being present, man.

"It's precise hard for maine to unrecorded successful the past, it's precise hard. I respect the past, wholeheartedly, but being successful the present and being locked into however I consciousness 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 world to see.

"This is me, this is Kendrick Lamar, 37-years-old and I inactive consciousness similar I'm elevating, I'm inactive connected the journey, though, you know? I privation that vigor to ooze retired into the televisions and to the radical that's successful that building."

Contrary to what galore mightiness think, Lamar won't beryllium pocketing a ample sum for his appearance. In reality, helium won't person immoderate outgo for his performance. While this whitethorn rise eyebrows, it's really modular signifier for Super Bowl halftime performers not to beryllium paid. Instead, the NFL takes attraction of each the costs progressive successful staging the show, including question expenses.

The 59th Super Bowl is acceptable to footwear disconnected astatine 11.30pm connected Sunday from the UK, with each 4 quarters lasting 15 minutes. However, American shot has a precise stop-start cognition meaning that Kendrick could beryllium performing immoderate clip astir midnight done til 1.30am, with the lucifer expected to extremity astatine astir 3.30am UK time.

This year, the lawsuit volition beryllium airing connected ITV for escaped from 10.45 pursuing Barney and Bradley Walsh's Breaking Dad series.