It’s been a near-year-long street to the Large Sport for Kendrick Lamar, whose 2024 crescendoed from March onward, to the purpose the place the rapper — who had lengthy appeared conflicted in regards to the concept of crossover good fortune — ended the 12 months as our editorial personnel’s select for the 12 months’s Largest Pop Megastar. He’s picked up proper the place he left off up to now in 2025, no longer most effective proceeding to dominate the Billboard charts together with his quite a lot of GNX hits and different different 2024 leftovers, but additionally going 5-for-5 at this month’s Grammys, and now enjoying the largest gig recognized to guy at Sunday’s (Feb. 9) Tremendous Bowl LIX.
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In this bonus episode of the Largest Pop Stars podcast, host Andrew Unterberger is joined via Billboard staffers Meghan Mahar and Eric Frankenberg to provide our morning-after reactions to the efficiency — what about it labored for us, what about it felt like a possible neglected alternative, and what all of it manner for his stardom transferring ahead. How did we really feel in regards to the GNX-heavy setlist? Was once the display missing in giant surprises, or in giant statements (and used to be it even honest for somebody to be expecting extra of both)? Was once that “Say Drake” smile the all time second? And does this efficiency vault Kendrick into but every other new inside circle of dad stardom — essentially the most unique one we now have?
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