The best photos from Kendrick Lamar's 2025 Super Bowl Halftime Show

Kendrick Lamar performs for the Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show on Feb. 9, 2025, at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, LA. Bob Kupbens/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images

Kendrick Lamar's 2025 Super Bowl Halftime Show has been written about, and it definitely had a strong impact on audiences.

The 13-minute showcase between halves of the Philadelphia Eagles vs. Kansas City Chiefs game was enough to keep fans entertained — both in the stadium and at home watching on TV — riled up from start to finish, Back-to-back hits from his latest Billboard 200-topping album, GNX, as well as other top-performing tracks from years past, including 2017's 'Humble' and 'DNA,' are being performed by the Compton rapper.

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 show's highest point is indisputable. It was when Dot - minutes after faking an audience with a tease earlier in the performance -The song that everyone had been waiting for finally came out, the 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 iconic performance by taking a look at some of the best photos from the show below.

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Kendrick Lamar performs onstage during the Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show at Caesars Superdome on Feb. 9, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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At Caesars Superdome, on February 9, 2025, Samuel Jackson gave a live performance during the Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show.

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Kendrick Lamar performs at Super Bowl LIX at Caesars Superdome on Feb. 9, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Kendrick Lamar takes to the stage for Apple Music's Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show in New Orleans, Louisiana on Feb. 9, 2025.

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SZA performs at Super Bowl LIX at Caesars Superdome on Feb. 9, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Mustard and Kendrick Lamar performed onstage during the Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show at Caesars Superdome on Feb. 9, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Serena Williams performed onstage during Apple Music's Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show at Caesars Superdome on Feb. 9, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Kendrick Lamar and SZA performed onstage during the Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show at Caesars Superdome on Feb. 9, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Performing onstage at Caesars Superdome on Feb. 9, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana is SZA.

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Mustard and Kendrick Lamar performed onstage during the Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show at Caesars Superdome on Feb. 9, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana.