The levels for Kendrick Lamar solely proceed to get greater and larger. Simply months after placing on an explosive efficiency on the Tremendous Bowl, the Compton rapper has his eyes set on an much more vital sports activities occasion.
On Thursday, in an interview with the Related Press, Casey Wasserman, the chairman of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics organizing committee, gave a preview of who could also be concerned within the worldwide occasion that’ll happen three years from now.
“Fortuitously in my day job I signify Kendrick Lamar,” stated Wasserman. “He’s actually an L.A. icon so I believe it could be a reasonably honest guess that Kendrick shall be concerned within the Olympics in Los Angeles not directly.”
Wasserman additionally mentioned how the Olympics could possibly be a car for serving to victims of the Los Angeles wildfires.
“The rebirth, the rebuild, possibly reimagining LA 2.0 — and the Olympics as a catalyst for all these issues — we predict is absolutely a part of our ethos,” stated Wasserman. “You’ll be able to’t have a pure catastrophe at that scale in a metropolis as huge and as essential as Los Angeles and never have it’s a part of your core philosophy going ahead.”
He later added, “From purely an Olympics perspective we obtained very fortunate. That’s not an important factor. What’s essential helps folks get again into their houses, get again settled, get again with their lives.”
Lamar performing on the 2028 Olympics could be an ideal transition for the way the 2024 video games ended. In the course of the closing ceremony of the Paris Olympics California native Snoop Dogg carried out a number of of his greatest hits and even introduced out Los Angeles legend Dr. Dre to carry out their 1999 hit, “The Subsequent Episode.”
A number of followers of the “luther” rapper have been excited to listen to that the Compton MC would carry out on one other main sports activities stage.
@nottween wrote in a tweet, “Olympics noticed Kendrick placed on a masterclass on the Tremendous Bowl and stated we’d like that n***a at our occasion.”
@TRASHTINGS commented, “olympics?! glad i obtained tickets for gnx, i’ll most likely by no means have the ability to afford a kendrick lamar live performance ever once more.”
This information simply provides to the already legendary run Lamar has been on since he received his rap beef with Drake.
Within the time since Ok. Dot launched “Not Like Us” in Could 2024, the Compton MC has carried out at The Pop Out Live performance, shock dropped “GNX,” carried out on the Tremendous Bowl, and received 5 Grammys.