SZA To Join Kendrick Lamar For Super Bowl Halftime Show Performance

SZA will be a special guest during Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Halftime Show performance next month, the HUMBLE icon revealed.

Lamar shared the news via a commercial on Apple Music. In the video, the rapper walks on the Caesars Superdome grounds while talking on the phone when he’s surprised by SZA, who pours a bucket of Gatorade on him, all while teasing a special guest appearing alongside him on the big day (Sunday, 9 February).

“You know this field a lot bigger than people think so that’s a must,” Lamar says on the phone. “Exactly. Nah, I been thinking about a guest performer.” The video concludes with Lamar’s song Hey Now playing in the background.

You can check out the teaser video below.

Lamar and SZA are touring across the US together this year, and they’ve released plenty of collaborations together over the years, such as Lamar appearing on SZA’s new album Lana (30 For 30) and SZA on Lamar’s latest album, GNX (Gloria and Luther). Other collaborations between the pair include All The Stars and Doves In The Wind—how many of those collabs will we hear at the Super Bowl?

When it was announced Lamar would headline the Super Bowl Halftime Show in September, the rapper commented: “Rap music is still the most impactful genre to date. And I’ll be there to remind the world why. They got the right one.”

Jay-Z added that Lamar is a “once-in-a-generation artist and performer” whose love and respect for hip-hop and culture informs his artistic vision.

2024 was a massive year for Lamar, who dropped his new album GNX and participated in an epic diss battle with Drake, taking it home with the chart-topping Not Like Us. Lamar has been nominated for seven Grammy Awards at next month’s ceremony.

Kendrick Lamar is a 17-time Grammy Award winner and was the first non-classical or jazz musician to win a Pulitzer Prize for 2017’s DAMN. Last June, the rapper’s record-breaking diss track Not Like Us spent two weeks at #1 in the US after collaborating with Future and Metro Boomin on Like That, which spent three weeks at #1.