Kendrick Lamar, who plays the largest stage in the game in Super Bowl, plays the combat energy that will decrease between Kansas City Chief and Philadelphia Eagles.
It is the same competitive spirit that he always brought to the rap attack.
“My intention was to stay always … the nature of the matter as a sport,” Lamar, 37, said during an exclusive interview on Thursday with Apple Music, who sponsors the first half show. “I love when artists keep their teeth. Like, I still watch the battlefield. I still watch Smack/URL, from Murda Mook to [Loaded] Lux to Tae Rock, brother day. This has always been the primary definition of whom I am, and that was the same since the first day. “
Lamar will be in the ring alone on Sunday in Caesar Superdum in New Orleans as the first single rapper to top Super Bowl-after he previously appeared at the Dr. Dre-LGHIME alongside Eminm, Mary J. Blige, Snooop Dogg and 50 Cent in 2022.
He said: “How do I treat everything, I still do what I was doing 10 years ago, and this, like, improves myself, better in the craft, and not looking at the bright lights.” “I must look at myself in the mirror rather than looking at the crowd or, as you know, fame and attention.”
When leaving the streets of Compton, California, the idea of Super Bowl was not in Lamar's dreams in Lamar's fiercest.
He said, “I was not thinking about any Super Bowl,” he said. “We were thinking about the best verse and how we would divide $ 5 in church chicken or something like this. This was not Super Bowl – he was going to the studio and getting a meal. But what I know is that the passion I have now is still the passion I had At that time, I think that continued to Super Bowl.
“The presence” also helped prepare it for this moment.
He said: “It was all about attending.” “As long as I was present in the studio and attended anything it was … I think it is present and not in reality, keep everything in a mental state on the basis of being in the big stages like this.”
After winning five grams on Sunday, including the record and song of “Not Like Us”-where the total Gramophone Square raised the Pulitzer 2018 recipient of the hip-hop culture again with its width at the end of the first half.
He said: “He made me think, like, grind him.” “Many people see the story in front of glory, the man, and this-is like removing your mixture, as you know, go to the neighborhoods, parties and performance at Hole-In-Wall points.
“So to me, this [means] Everything, because it puts the culture in the introduction where it must be, and do not reduce to just a song or an attractive verse. This is a real artistic form, so its representation on this type of theater is, like all that I have done and everything I believe in. Regarding culture, I live and die. This has changed the life of my entire family, so I do not consider it forever. “
He will join Lamar by Sza as a special guest of his first half. The two formerly collaborated on successes such as “All The All The Stars” for the year 2018 and “Luther” for the year 2024, and they will arrive on the road together in the upcoming Grand National tour to the stadiums that start on April 19 in Minneapolis.
“We move quickly, like, as much as production, rehearsals and things,” he said. “So we are talking, but we have no opportunity to settle at the present time. For me personally, I watch her, her professional life and where I came, it is surprising that we see … and I am honored to be next to her talent.”
As for what we can expect on Sunday, Lamar participated that his offer at the end of the first half would include “telling stories”.
He said: “I was always very open to telling stories through all catalogs and music history, and I always had a passion for bringing this at any stage.”
“Whether it is a global tour or whether it is 500 people in Key Club, I always had a form of it, so I always like to continue this feeling, as you know, makes people listen but also … think a little.”
