Lamar Jackson will be looking to get over the hump and lead the Baltimore Ravens to a Super Bowl appearance in the 2025 NFL season. Another fantastic season ended with a disappointing playoff exit for Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens,

Samuel L. Jackson surprised viewers as the first face to light up the Super Bowl 2025 halftime show, introducing himself as "your Uncle Sam" and issuing commands to the rebellious rapper.

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.

In a surprise opening to Kendrick Lamar's halftime performance during Super Bowl LIX, Samuel L. Jackson went front and center dressed as Uncle Sam before introducing Lamar to the stage. In line with the theme of "The Great American Game,

Kendrick Lamar has the hot hand and landed another huge achievement less than two months into 2025. His Super Bowl LIX halftime show is now the most-watched halftime show of all time, outdrawing Michael Jackson’s halftime show from over 30 years ago.

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.

Lamar became the first rapper to be the solo headliner of a Super Bowl halftime show. In 2022, he was a guest performer at the hip-hop-centric halftime show in Los Angeles, where Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, 50 Cent and Eminem were among the others to take the stage.

Samuel L. Jackson was a part of Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl Halftime show, where he performed as “Uncle Sam” and was the host throughout the 12 minutes. After the show, Jackson went on social media and shared a picture of him and Lamar backstage.

His “GNX” album returns to the top of the Billboard 200 with 236,000 equivalent album units following his performance at the Super Bowl Halftime Show. With its latest jump from No. 4 to 1, “GNX” marks the set’s second week atop the chart following its release in November.