Picture
Picture Credit score
CBS Photograph Archive / Contributor by way of Getty Photographs
Picture Alt
Kendrick Lamar poses on the 67th Annual Grammy Awards
Picture Measurement
landscape-medium
Key Takeaways:
- Kendrick Lamar’s Tremendous Bowl LIX halftime present earned a Artistic Arts Emmy Award for Excellent Music Path.
- The efficiency featured “Not Like Us” regardless of an ongoing lawsuit from Drake.
- The Emmy win provides to Lamar’s rising record of accolades and cultural milestones.
Kendrick Lamar continues to be successful awards for his Tremendous Bowl LIX halftime present from February 2025. On the Artistic Arts Emmy Awards on Sunday (Sept. 7), the Compton rapper’s efficiency — which famously featured a rendition of “Not Like Us” — took house an Emmy for Excellent Music Path.
The timing of Lamar’s Tremendous Bowl present, which was introduced in September 2024, couldn’t have been any higher. A few months prior, in November 2024, the “Cash Timber” hitmaker launched his sixth solo album, GNX, to important acclaim. Regardless of the brand new music, followers had been nonetheless debating whether or not or not he would carry out his famed Drake diss, “Not Like Us,” for a nationwide TV viewers.
Then in January 2025, Drake sued Common Music Group, claiming his personal document label defamed him by selling Ok Dot’s tune, which calls him a “licensed pedophile.” The circumstances solely heightened anticipation for the halftime present to a fever pitch.
On Tremendous Bowl Sunday, Lamar delivered. He ran via some selection songs from his catalog — together with “All of the Stars” and “television off” — introduced alongside Samuel L. Jackson, SZA, DJ Mustard and Serena Williams as particular company, and regardless of the pending lawsuit, unapologetically carried out “Not Like Us.” The live performance obtained important acclaim and was trending for days on social media.
In accordance with Pitchfork, the “squabble up” rapper truly obtained seven Emmy nominations for “The Apple Music Tremendous Bowl LIX Halftime Present Starring Kendrick Lamar.” The Artistic Emmy for Excellent Music Path, which was picked up by co-music director Tony Russell, marks Lamar’s second Emmy. He received his first in 2022 for Excellent Selection Particular (Dwell) after collaborating within the Tremendous Bowl LVI Halftime Present as a particular visitor of Dr. Dre.
The Compton native’s trophy shelf is getting crowded. He presently has 22 Grammy Awards, together with the 5 he picked up on the 67th Annual Grammy Awards a couple of week earlier than his Tremendous Bowl efficiency.