Kendrick Lamar‘s 2025 Super Bowl Halftime Show is in the books, and it definitely didn’t strike a minor chord with audiences.
In fact, the 13-minute showcase between halves of the Philadelphia Eagles vs. Kansas City Chiefs game kept fans — both in the stadium and at home watching on TV — riled up from start to finish, with the Compton rapper performing back-to-back hits from his latest Billboard 200-topping album, GNX, as well as other chart-toppers from years past, including 2017’s “Humble” and “DNA.”
As previously announced, frequent collaborator and soon-to-be tourmate SZA joined him on the field at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans to help perform their 2024 team-up “Luther” and 2018 Black Panther duet “All the Stars,” while producer Mustard had his big moment next to Lamar when the latter performed “TV Off.” Plus, Samuel L. Jackson played the recurring role of Uncle Sam, dressed in a tailcoat and top hat and shouting interjections between batches of songs.
The indisputable high point of the show, however, was when Dot — minutes after faking out the audience with a tease earlier on in the performance — finally launched into the song everyone was waiting for, Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 single and 2024 culture-defining diss track “Not Like Us.” Moments after smiling directly into the camera to tease, “Say, Drake, I hear you like ’em young,” Lamar was joined by an ear-splitting crowd of tens of thousands of football fans in yelling, “Tryna strike a chord and it’s probably A minor!”
Aside from Lamar and his A-list collaborators, dozens of red-white-and-blue-clad dancers, as well as a crew of behind-the-scenes workers who put together the hip-hop titan’s layered, 360-degree staging, also nailed their execution of 2025’s unforgettable halftime extravaganza. Relive the already iconic performance by checking out some of the best photos from the show below.
