Grammy Award-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar headlined the NFL’s Super Bowl LIX halftime show on Feb. 9, an event that drew over 100 million viewers and continues to serve as one of the most coveted performance slots in the industry.

Kendrick Lamar, one of hip-hop’s most venerated artists for the past decade, performed “Not Like Us,” a diss track aimed at Drake, to cap the Super Bowl halftime show in New Orleans, the first to be headlined by a solo rapper.

From the songs he performed to the surprise guests, here's what you need to know about Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show

Follow live reaction to Lamar’s Super Bowl LIX halftime show, which featured SZA, Serena Williams and Samuel L Jackson.

Pulitzer-Prize and Grammy winning rapper Kendrick Lamar was the headlining halftime performer at Super Bowl 59 in New Orleans on Sunday. Lamar was joined in the performance by frequent collaborator SZA.

As evidenced throughout her career, Serena Williams likes to go big - and she doesn't do anything for small reasons. That includes her recent appearance during Kendrick Lamar‘s 2025 Super Bowl Halftime Show,

The rapper indeed made history. Roc Nation announced that his halftime show is now the most-watched Super Bowl performance of all time with a monster 133.5 million viewers, dethroning Michael Jackson's longstanding record of 133.4 million viewers in 1993.

Serena Williams is apparently unfazed by the backlash over her viral appearance during Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show earlier this month. “Gosh I’m so late to the game (I’ve been sick) & busy investing in billion dollar companies and running @WYNbeauty