What happened during Kendrick Lamar's Halftime Show at the Super Bowl?

Find out what song Kendrick sang first, last, how many songs he performed, plus who joined him on stage at the halftime show for Super Bowl 59 in New Orleans.

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Jared Hochman • Content Manager
Feb 9, 2025 • 20:42 ET • 4 min read
Grammy Award-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar.
Photo By - Imagn Images. Grammy Award-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar.

One of the top Super Bowl novelty props each year is betting on the halftime show, where superstar rapper Kendrick Lamar performed.

This article will have the results for what his first song performed was, what his last song was, and what guests joined him on stage.

What was Kendrick Lamar's first song for the halftime show?

The Super Bowl halftime show odds saw a ton of movement in this market, with the Grammy-award-winning "Not Like Us" being the early favorite and "HUMBLE" catching late steam.

    When K.Dot finally hit the stage, his first song was... an unreleased freestyle - with "Squabble Up" his first studio track performed.

    It's unprecedented, for sure, but FanDuel Canada graded "Squabble Up" as the first song of the set.


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    What was Kendrick Lamar's long song for the halftime show?

    This market also was highly contested, with "Not Like Us" closing as the odds-on favorite before markets went off the board, while "All the Stars" and "tv off" were the next favored songs.

      His halftime performance wrapped up with "tv off," as he yelled his now iconic "MUSTARRRRD."

      Who joined Kendrick Lamar on stage for the halftime show?

      It was already confirmed that Lamar's "Grand National Tour" partner SZA will join him onstage for the Super Bowl halftime show, but several other performers/celebrities were on the odds board to also make a cameo, including Baby Keem, Future, Metro Boomin, lil' Wayne... and even Taylor Swift.

        The first, guest cameo was Samuel L. Jackson (dressed as Uncle Sam), followed by to musical performances by SZA, and then Serena Williams (crip walking to "Not Like Us") and DJ Mustard on stage for "tv off."

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        Before Jared Hochman joined the Covers team in 2020, he worked for newspaper outlets such as the Chronicle Herald and The Coast, worked in marketing for SkipTheDishes and Vivid Seats, and previously ran a magazine. A journalism graduate from the University of King's College in, Halifax, N.S., "Hoch" brings more than a decade of experience in sports betting, having worked as a freelance handicapper, making appearances on Monumental Sports Network and the Sharp 600 podcast, and now also filling in occasionally as host of Covers' NHL Puck Props. 

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