Samuel L. Jackson makes surprise cameo for Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl 2025 halftime performance
nypost.com22-time Grammy Award winner performed a medley of his greatest hits — including the Drake diss track “Not Like Us” — for the halftime show at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans on Sunday.Samuel L.
Jackson as “Uncle Sam” introduced Lamar at the start of the performance.The rapper wore a blue jacket with a black shirt, black backwards hat and blue jeans for the start of his performance.
He was surrounded by backup dancers who formed an American flag while dressed in red, white and blue.Jackson interrupted Lamar more than once during the performance as “Uncle Sam.” On one occasion, the actor yelled, “Too loud, too reckless, too ghetto.
Mr. Lamar, do you really know how to play the game?”Lamar sang “Squabble,” “Humble” and “Peekaboo” by himself, before he was joined by SZA for duets to their collabs “Luther” and “All the Stars.”Lamar then performed the Drake diss track “Not Like Us” — but he took out the “pedophile” lyric.
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