With widespread help that Lil Wayne ought to have the Tremendous Bowl stage in NOLA, Drake posted photographs on-line. It’s price noting that Drake’s present foe, Kendrick Lamar, has the Tremendous Bowl spot.
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Kendrick Lamar’s choice because the Tremendous Bowl halftime performer has rubbed members of the Hip-Hop neighborhood the unsuitable approach. Many, together with Wayne’s engineer, Marasciullo, imagine it ought to have been Lil Wayne.
“Confused. Disenchanted. Offended. However most of all, impressed,” Marasciullo wrote. “Won’t ever once more be ready or have the 🐐 ready the place we’re on the mercy of another person’s choice. We’ll make the selections.”
Kendrick Lamar will take heart stage on the Apple Music Tremendous Bowl LIX Halftime Present at The Caesars Superdome in New Orleans on February 9, 2025. Roc Nation, Apple Music, and the NFL made the announcement immediately, sparking pleasure for the globally anticipated efficiency.
Shawn “JAY-Z” Carter, founding father of Roc Nation, praised Lamar’s affect: “Kendrick Lamar is actually a once-in-a-generation artist and performer. His deep love for hip-hop and tradition informs his inventive imaginative and prescient… His impression can be felt for years to return.”
Seth Dudowsky, Head of Music on the NFL, echoed this sentiment, saying, “Few artists have impacted music and tradition as profoundly as Kendrick Lamar… Kendrick has confirmed his distinctive skill to craft moments that resonate, redefine, and in the end shake the very basis of hip-hop.”
Apple Music’s Oliver Schusser emphasised the joy: “Apple is thrilled to carry this present, starring the completely incomparable Kendrick Lamar, to followers worldwide with Apple Music’s industry-leading Spatial Audio high quality.”
Lamar, a Grammy and Emmy-winning artist and co-founder of pgLang, continues to redefine hip-hop, incomes accolades like a Pulitzer Prize for his 2017 album DAMN. and his chart-topping collaborations earlier this yr.
PgLang will creatively direct Lamar’s Tremendous Bowl efficiency, which can be produced by DPS. Roc Nation’s Jesse Collins will function government producer, and Hamish Hamilton will function director.
Apple Music’s ongoing partnership with the NFL and Roc Nation has already produced record-breaking halftime exhibits. With Kendrick Lamar on the helm, this yr’s efficiency is about to be one other groundbreaking second in Tremendous Bowl historical past.
