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Cameras Caught a Pumped-Up Kendrick Lamar Celebrating After Super Bowl Halftime Show

K. Dot was looking pretty happy.

Brigid Kennedy

Rapper Kendrick Lamar on Feb 9, 2025.
Rapper Kendrick Lamar on Feb 9, 2025. / Bill Streicher-Imagn Images
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Rapper Kendrick Lamar delivered a high-energy, star-studded, and unsurprisingly scathing performance at the Super Bowl LIX halftime show, during which he brought out actor Samuel L. Jackson, musical artist SZA, tennis legend Serena Williams, but most importantly performed a rousing rendition of "Not Like Us," his unflinching Drake diss track that's currently at the center of a legal battle.

Whether Lamar would perform the song was the subject of much deliberation considering the possible legal ramifications at play. But after a quick tease, Lamar delivered, and the entire stadium sang along. Rough night to be Drake, that's for sure.

Lamar, on the other hand, was clearly pumped after he left the field—a reaction that cameras caught and shared online. The rapper looks very excited, clapping his hands and pumping his chest.

Take a peek at that below:

From the Grammy Awards to the Super Bowl halftime show ... you can't write a better week than that.

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BRIGID KENNEDY

Brigid Kennedy is a contributor to the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. Before joining SI in November 2024, she covered political news, sporting news and culture at TheWeek.com before moving to Livingetc, an interior design magazine. She is a graduate of Syracuse University, dual majoring in television, radio and film (from the Newhouse School of Public Communications) and marketing managment (from the Whitman School of Management). Offline, she enjoys going to the movies, reading and watching the Steelers.

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