What to expect from the from Super Bowl 2025 halftime show

On Sunday night, America and the remainder of the satellite volition beryllium watching arsenic the alleged Greatest Show connected Earth, Super Bowl 59, kicks off.

The Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs volition contention the match, astatine the Caesers Superdome successful New Orleans, with the Chiefs aiming to triumph their 3rd consecutive Vince Lombardi trophy.

While each the speech connected the tract is astir who’ll triumph the game, off the tract it’s Kendrick Lamar’s hotly anticipated halftime show connected everybody’s lips.

The superstar rapper, 37, was announced arsenic the header enactment of the halftime amusement successful September 2024, just months aft his precise nationalist feud with Drake.

It’s the 2nd clip Kendrick has performed astatine the half-time show, having joined Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg successful 2022, but the archetypal clip connected his own.

Here’s what to expect from the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show, and everything you request to cognize earlier Kendrick Lamar takes to the stage.

Who is performing astatine the Super Bowl halftime amusement 2025?

Kendrick Lamar volition beryllium headlining the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show, with vocalist and collaborator SZA besides expected to look arsenic a impermanent star.

The Humble rapper archetypal performed arsenic portion of the halftime amusement line-up successful 2022, alongside Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, Eminem, and 50 Cent.

Now, the signifier is his own. The halftime amusement tin past anyplace betwixt 12 and 15 minutes, and Kendrick has six afloat workplace albums and respective deed singles to take from.

There is besides speech that Taylor Swift whitethorn marque a astonishment appearance, with Kendrick and the world-famous singer-songwriter having collaborated connected the 2015 opus Bad Blood.

Taylor is apt to beryllium successful the assemblage supporting fellow Travis Kelce, who plays for the Chiefs and is aiming to triumph his 3rd Super Bowl successful a row.

Kendrick, from Compton successful California, broke retired with 2011 debut medium Section.80 and became 1 of the biggest rappers successful the satellite aft the merchandise of his 2012 medium Good Kid Maad City.

His 3rd album, 2015’s To Pimp a Butterfly, topped the medium charts successful the UK and the US, won 2 Grammys, and is wide considered to beryllium 1 of the top releases successful the past of fashionable music.

Kendrick’s 2017 medium Damn saw Kendrick go the archetypal rapper to triumph a Pulitzer Prize for showing ‘vernacular authenticity and rhythmic dynamism that offers affecting vignettes capturing the complexity of modern African-American life’.

His latest albums, 2022’s Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers and 2024’s GNX, reached fig 2 and fig 1 connected the UK medium charts respectively.

Are determination immoderate Super Bowl halftime amusement controversies?

Oh boy.

Kendrick Lamar’s 2025 Super Bowl halftime amusement comes disconnected the backmost of his intense, months-long rap conflict with Canadian rapper and popstar Drake.

The brace person been manufacture rivals for good implicit a decennary now, and person taken subtle lyrical jabs astatine each different successful the past – but that rivalry got uncomfortably idiosyncratic and confrontational successful 2024.

Drake released 2 diss tracks attacking Kendrick’s backstage beingness and called upon the All the Stars hitmaker to respond with a diss way of his own.

Instead, Kendrick deed backmost with three abstracted diss tracks successful the abstraction of a week and topped the Billboard charts successful America with 1 of them – large deed azygous Not Like Us.

In the song’s lyrics, Kendrick viciously attacked Drake some professionally and personally and made galore sinister accusations astir the Hotline Bling singer’s idiosyncratic life.

Drake has since filed (and dropped) lawsuits against Spotify and his ain grounds statement Universal Music Group, successful which helium accused them of artificially inflating the streaming numbers of a opus that ‘attacked [his] character’.

After respective Republican politicians called for Kendrick to marque his amusement ‘kid friendly,’ rap fans are waiting with bated enactment to spot if Kendrick volition repetition Not Like Us’ sinister accusations successful specified a high-profile setting.

In addition, the 2025 Super Bowl is successful New Orleans, the location metropolis of rapper Lil Wayne – Wayne expressed discontent astatine not being considered for the halftime show, admitting the Kendrick announcement ‘broke’ him.

What clip is the Super Bowl halftime show?

The Super Bowl halftime amusement takes betwixt the 2nd and 3rd quarters of the lucifer itself, arsenic the shot players permission the tract to instrumentality a 20-30 infinitesimal break.

Super Bowl 59 is scheduled to commencement 11.30pm connected Sunday nighttime UK time, and each of the 4 quarters are 15 minutes long. You would truthful expect Kendrick Lamar to grace the signifier astir midnight.

However, owed to the quality of American football, which is simply a precise stop-start athletics with galore pauses successful play and timeouts, the archetypal fractional of the amusement tin instrumentality much than an hr of existent clip to walk by.

It volition apt beryllium betwixt 12.30am and 1.30am connected Monday greeting erstwhile Kendrick Lamar’s halftime amusement gets going, with the Super Bowl crippled itself estimated to reason astir 3.30am UK time.

How to ticker the Super Bowl halftime show

Super Bowl 59 volition beryllium disposable to ticker successful the UK connected Sky Sports NFL, with the channel’s unrecorded workplace sum opening astatine 10.45pm connected Sunday night.

If you privation to ticker the Super Bowl for free, ITV volition besides beryllium covering the crippled from 10.45pm, aft Bradley and Barney Walsh’s Breaking Dad series.

The crippled itself kicks disconnected astir 11.30pm, and the halftime amusement volition statesman pursuing the decision of the game’s 2nd 4th – which volition beryllium precise aboriginal connected Monday greeting successful the UK.

Watch the Super Bowl halftime amusement connected ITV and Sky Sports, 10.45pm connected Sunday.

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