Kendrick Lamar Previews “Storytelling” at Super Bowl Halftime Show as “Not Like Us” Speculation Swirls

Three days ahead of his hotly-anticipated Super Dish halftime performance and four days after taking home five Grammys, Kendrick Lamar previewed his upcoming efficiency at the NFL’s season closer, saying that audiences need to expect “narration” that will certainly help his biggest target market yet engage themselves in his music.

The 37-year-old multi-platinum selling and Pulitzer Champion rapper, that got much more distinctions at the Grammys, winning document of the year, tune of the year, finest rap performance, finest rap tune and finest music video for his massive summer hit, “Not Like Us,” mentioned his plans for the large video game at a Thursday press conference.

While Lamar did not review information of his forthcoming set listing, it was reported this week that he will be doing “Not Like Us.” The track, component of an ongoing feud between the rap artists, inquiries Drake’s social identification and stability while increasing down on accusations of pedophilia and sex-related misbehavior. Drake has actually since submitted a character assassination claim versus Universal Songs, claiming the track was ‘planned to convey the certain, unmistakable, and incorrect valid accusation that Drake is a criminal pedophile, and to recommend that the general public needs to consider vigilante justice in reaction.”

“I think I’ve constantly been really open about storytelling throughout every one of my directory and my history of music,” Lamar claimed during the press seminar. “And I have actually always had a passion regarding bringing that on whatever stage I’m on … I have actually always had a form of that feeling of making people listen, but likewise see and believe a little.”

At the 2022 Super Dish halftime program, Lamar made his launching on the NFL’s substantial phase when he signed up with rap tale Dr. Dre and other titans of the rap and R&B globe, consisting of Eminem, Snoop Dogg and Mary J. Blige. For his efficiency at this year’s game, Lamar will certainly be joined by SZA, who he has worked together with on three tracks over the previous six months (” Luther,” “Gloria” and “30 for 30”) and with whom he had a substantial hit in 2018 with “All the Stars.” Lamar, who appears on the lately released reissue of SZA’s lauded 2022 cd, SOS, had full marks for the critically well-known “Eliminate Expense” singer.

Yet Lamar was mother on details. The rapper did not reveal any type of brand-new guest musicians that might join him on phase at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans or whether he’ll execute his controversial Grammy-winning hit, but he did place Sunday’s program in context with his phase efficiencies throughout his two-decade-plus career.

“Not Like Us” was not carried out at the Grammys on Sunday and speculation has actually expanded concerning it showing up on Lamar’s setlist this Sunday after a team of Louisiana legislators sent out a letter to the leaders of the Greater New Orleans Sports Structure and the Louisiana Stadium and Expo District stating that halftime performances should be family-friendly. On Wednesday, citing sources close to Lamar, Fox Sports and the NFL, TMZ validated that Lamar will be executing the hit tune, yet it’s unclear if the purportedly maligning lyrics regarding Drake will certainly be said real-time.