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Kendrick Lamar will perform the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show

Kendrick Lamar is about to pop out at the Super Bowl

Kendrick Lamar is having quite the year after a high-profile rap feud, and it just got even bigger after he announced Sunday he’ll be doing the halftime show for Super Bowl 59 in February.

Set to take place on Feb. 9, 2025, this season’s Super Bowl will happen at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans. K. Dot will follow Usher as the halftime performer, though it won’t be his first halftime appearance.

Lamar was also a part of Dr. Dre’s halftime set in 2022.

Here was how Lamar announced his second halftime appearance:

If Lamar’s recent Ken and Friends show was a preview of what to expect, it’s going to be a great show. And if this line from Lamar’s announcement video — “there’s only one opportunity to win a championship. There’s no round twos” — sounded like a another petty jab at Drake, it probably was.

The victory lap continues.

Mardi Gras conflict shifts next New Orleans-hosted Super Bowl to 2025

The 2024 Super Bowl was supposed to be played at the Superdome with the New Orleans Saints hosting but Mardi Gras made a scheduling conflict

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The NFL’s expansion of the regular season to 17 full weeks of football has already had a couple of ripple effects, even if teams won’t begin playing that longer schedule until 2021 at the soonest.

One of the new changes has already hit the New Orleans Saints, who were slated to help host Super Bowl LVIII in 2024. With another week of the regular season tacked onto the calendar, that would have put Super Bowl Sunday in the middle of Mardi Gras (conflicting with Bacchus Sunday’s festivities, to be precise).

That’s too heavy of a logistical nightmare to reckon with, so the NFL’s ownership unanimously agreed to postpone New Orleans’ next championship (as hosts, of course) to 2025, when Super Bowl LVIV will be played. Maybe we’ll luck out and the Saints will be playing anyway.

New Orleans has hosted 10 Super Bowls, more than any other city — except for Miami, where 11 title games have kicked off. But this next Super Bowl will be New Orleans’ 11th, tying Miami’s record.

In the past, Super Bowl host cities were decided by a bidding process. Under the new NFL collective bargaining agreement, though, it’s up to the league office to choose qualifiers and then evaluate proposals on how each venue would host the game and everything that surrounds it.

While the NFL has yet to decide who will host Super Bowl LVIII, we do know where the other four championship games will be played. The full list:

  • Super Bowl LV: Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, Fla.
  • Super Bowl LVI: SoFi Stadium, Los Angeles, Cal.
  • Super Bowl LVII: State Farm Stadium, Glendale, Ariz.
  • Super Bowl LVIII: TBD
  • Super Bowl LVIV: Mercedes-Benz Superdome, New Orleans, La.

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