Will Kendrick Lamar perform with a choir at the Super Bowl?

Millions and millions of views, but zero official confirmations. A spoiler to fuel the hype? A video posted online to mislead? Or are they the real evidence of what the show will be, one of the most anticipated in 2025? It’s not known at the moment, but one thing is certain: the clip released on social media over Christmas, in which Kendrick Lamar is seen working in the studio with a choir, hit the mark. The Compton rapper, in the role of maestro, directs the vocal arrangements of “Count Me Out” and “Loyalty”. The effect is magical and beautifully black/gospelwith the voices that raise the evocative power of the pieces. It’s hard not to think of the vibes of performances with Kanye West’s Sunday Service Choirwith choirmaster Jason White, between 2019 and 2020. But Lamar is certainly no stranger to contaminations and experiments, just remember the wonderful performance with the National Symphony Orchestra for the release of “To Pimp a Butterfly”.

On the YouTube and social media profile of the creative vocal director Steve Epting, directly involved in this Lamar projectin addition to seeing the images of the rehearsals with the choir, you can read all the credits/names of the artists involved. Is this a taste of what we’ll see at the Super Bowl? This is the most frequent question among the comments under the clip. Next February 9th at Caesars Superdome in New Orleansin Louisiana (a significant detail: it is the home of jazz, the first African-American genre to conquer America and which the rapper paid homage to in “To Pimp a Butterfly”), Lamar will perform during the Super Bowl halftime showthe halftime of the final of the US professional football league championship, one of the most anticipated, followed and commented media events in the USA (in 2024 the event was watched by 123.7 million Americans). The artist, who had already taken part at the 2022 Halftime Show alongside Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, 50 Cent and Eminemin this round he will have the spotlight all to himself and for this reason he will be unique. A few days after the release of “GNX”, surprisingly released by the Compton rapper last November, Lamar himself and R&B star SZA after several collaborationshave also announced a joint tour that will see them perform in stadiums across North America this year.

They baptized him “Grand National Tour”, together they created a sort of duo. A preview of the tour could arrive, indeed it will certainly arrive according to some sources, right on the stage of the Super Bowl, where there are really many irons in the fire. “GNX” (the title is a reference to the car immortalized on the cover), as we said in our review, was born in the wake of two central elements in 2024 for the West Coast rapper: high-level beef with Drake (“Not like us” debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and became a hit that people loved), and the desire to be truly popular precisely in view of his next participation in the Half Time Showthe most famous music show in the world. These elements should not be underestimated either try to understand and what he will decide to propose. In short, it will be interesting to understand how and if rivalry with Drake (“Will Not Like Us” be proposed at the Super Bowl or will the hatchet be buried?), the new work “GNX”, the partnership with SZA and these possible arrangements with the choir spoiled in the clip, they will find space in the mega show that awaits him.