Next February, hip-hop titan Kendrick Lamar will headline the Super Bowl LIX halftime show. The “DNA” hitmaker has already been part of one epic Super Bowl halftime performance, and all signs point to a repeat in 2025. Surprise guests are a staple of the big game, so naturally speculation immediately began swirling about who might join Lamar onstage at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans. Some social media users are even predicting that a certain blonde pop sensation with an NFL star boyfriend might make an appearance.
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Will We See Some “Bad Blood” In New Orleans?
Released a decade ago, Taylor Swift’s 1989 signaled a seismic shift from country to pop for the 14-time GRAMMY winner. The 2016 Album of the Year features fan favorite “Bad Blood,” one of Swift’s most biting diss tracks. Kendrick Lamar famously put his signature stamp on the single for a 2015 remix.
Eight years later, Swift released the re-recorded 1989 (Taylor’s Version.) Among the vault tracks? The “Bad Blood” remix—this time featuring even more Kendrick.
While the “Euphoria” rapper has star power to spare on his own, Swift could send the show into the stratosphere. And some fans are wondering if she may do just that. “I’m calling now. This is how Taylor finally gets into the halftime show,” one X/Twitter user wrote. “She’ll come out for Bad Blood.”
Swift’s boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, is chasing his third straight Super Bowl title this season. If they’re successful, it’s likely that Swift will at least attend the game. And since her billion-dollar Eras Tour wraps in December, she may not even need her private jet this time.
Rap Legend Praises Kendrick Lamar: “He Unites Cities”
Kendrick Lamar performed the Drake diss track “Not Like Us” six times during his Juneteenth pop-up concert at Kia Forum in Inglewood, California. Some called it the “Loyalty” singer’s “victory lap” in his widely-reported feud with the Canadian rapper. However, fellow West Coast icon Snoop Dogg saw the endeavor as a means of unifying the City of Angels.
“[If] you’re going to move with Kendrick, you gotta move like Kendrick. He’s about peace, he’s about love,” Snoop told Complex. “He ain’t from no gang. He’s from a city full of gangs and he unites cities. So that’s what this is about.”
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