Samuel L. Jackson joined Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl 2025 half-time show performance. Here's what his role was and what it all really meant.

Drake got dissed in "Not Like Us," Jackson played Uncle Sam as President Trump looked on, and Serena Williams danced in a surprise cameo.

I’m not sure when else you’d see a Pulitzer Prize winner performing the halftime show at Super Bowl LIV, but 2025 owes us one, apparently. And so, Kendrick Lamar (who also won five Grammys at last week’s ceremony) hit the stage along with “unexpected” guest SZA — to perform 15 minutes of his biggest hits as the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs hit their locker rooms to prepare for the second half.

Kendrick Lamar took to the stage during the Super Bowl Half Time show to perform a number of hits, but it was one celeb cameo that truly stole the show

Kendrick Lamar blasts through a set of largely new material and continues his assault against Drake in an explosive half-time show.

Uncle Sam was present in New Orleans – and he wasn't the only special guest.

With actor Samuel L. Jackson serving as emcee and dressed like “Uncle Sam,” Kendrick Lamar opened his halftime performance crouched atop a Buick Grand National Experimental — the car for which his newest album,

Hip-hop's reigning champ Kendrick Lamar took the Super Bowl by storm to prove he has more than a diss track to deliver a touchdown halftime show.

Kendrick Lamar brought Compton, California to the Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show. The rapper’s performance at New Orleans’ Caesars Superdome was filled with songs from his recent album GNX as well as tracks from DAMN. Of course, he also played his smash single “Not Like Us.” Once again, Apple Music served as the halftime show sponsor.

Rapper Kendrick Lamar was joined by SZA and Samuel L. Jackson for his Super Bowl halftime show performance on Sunday, where he performed some of his biggest hits including “Not Like Us,” a diss track against rapper Drake that won several Grammy Awards last week.