It seems that Kendrick Lamar‘s surprise-dropped new tune has a serious fan in Nas, who quoted it when congratulating Ok.Dot on his upcoming Tremendous Bowl halftime present efficiency.
On Friday (September 13), Nasty Nas re-shared Lamar’s Tremendous Bowl announcement on his personal Instagram Story, including: “Congratulations to my brotha @kendricklamar. Can’t wait to look at the celebration die!!!!”
“Watch the Occasion Die” is what followers have began calling Kendrick’s latest tune, although its official title, if one exists, has not but been revealed. He dropped the observe through Instagram on Wednesday (September 11).
Take a look at Nas’ message beneath.
Nas extends his congratulations to Kendrick Lamar for touchdown the Tremendous Bowl LIX Halftime present 🤝 pic.twitter.com/2JJaVrxFlO
— HipHopDX (@HipHopDX) September 13, 2024
Nas was congratulating Lamar, in fact, on the announcement that the West Coast rapper can be performing through the halftime present at Tremendous Bowl LIX in New Orleans, information that was introduced simply final weekend.
On Sunday (September 8), the NFL introduced that Ok. Dot has been confirmed to headline the Apple Music Halftime Present at subsequent 12 months’s championship sport, which is ready to happen on February 9 on the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans.
“Rap music continues to be essentially the most impactful style thus far,” Lamar mentioned as a part of the formal announcement. “And I’ll be there to remind the world why. They obtained the correct one.”
Alongside the group’s assertion, which they issued in partnership with Apple and JAY-Z‘s Roc Nation, the previous TDE rapper shared a video clip on X (previously Twitter), Instagram and YouTube — one Nas re-shared in his message.
Within the clip, Kendrick is seen operating a follow session with an unseen receiver off-screen. After launching a couple of passes, supported by steerage and reward for the participant, he shares the large information and subtly references his beef with Drake earlier this summer time.
“My identify’s Kendrick Lamar and I’ll be acting at Tremendous Bowl LIX,” he begins. “Will you be pulling up? I hope so! You recognize it’s just one alternative to win a championship; no spherical twos. I wouldn’t need you to overlook it. Meet me in New Orleans, February 9, 2025. Put on your greatest dressed too, even should you’re watching from house.”
The “no spherical twos” line appears to be a direct name again to a submit which Drizzy made through his burner account precisely two weeks prior, amid his onslaught of latest releases.
Seemingly indicating that he was gearing up for a second spherical of their battle, Drizzy shared a clip of former Detroit Pistons star Rasheed Wallace’s well-known interview the place he assured that the workforce would conquer the Indiana Pacers in sport two of the 2004 Jap Convention Finals.
“Y’all can put it on the entrance web page, again web page, center web page, wherever, headliners, column one or two — we are going to win sport two,” the four-time NBA All-Star confidently says within the video following the Pistons’ sport one defeat.
Sheed’s prediction got here true because the Pistons defeated the Pacers on their solution to successful the sequence 4-2.