Mustard Predicts Whether Kendrick Lamar Will Bring Him Out For "Not Like Us" At Super Bowl

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INDIO, CA - APRIL 23: Kendrick Lamar performs on the Coachella Stage during day 3 (Weekend 2) of the Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival on April 23, 2017 in Indio, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Coachella)
He's got his fingers crossed, but he's excited either way.

Like all of us, Mustard seems to not have a clue what's going to happen at Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show performance. However, even though he apparently hasn't gotten the call from K.Dot to come out for "Not Like Us" – if he even performs that track – he's still very excited for the show. The producer recently spoke with Billboard in an interview published Wednesday (October 9) about the upcoming headline event and whether or not he'll be a part of it. Fortunately, he didn't really spill a lot of secrets, as he was more focused on his excitement to just witness the spectacle like the rest of us.

"I definitely can’t wait to watch the Super Bowl, man," Mustard remarked of the Kendrick Lamar extravaganza coming next year in New Orleans. "Can’t wait. This year’s going to be pretty special. I might shed a tear [if he performs ‘Not Like Us.’] I am grateful for him to perform it on stage. If he performs it on stage by himself and doesn’t call me, I wouldn’t give a s**t. Just perform it."

Mustard Speaks On Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl Halftime Show

"Don’t get me wrong – call me," Mustard clarified to Kendrick Lamar via this Billboard interview, indicating that he and his team might still be putting stuff together for the Super Bowl halftime show. "If you want me, I’ll slide. But I’ll be there regardless going crazy, acting like I’m on stage. If I’m in a box, they might show me on TV from how crazy [I’ll be going]. I might stand on a chair. They might show me on the TV like, ‘He’s going berserk!’" Meanwhile, there are a lot of people who would probably react exactly like this, too. After all, it's one of the biggest hits of the year for a reason.

Still, amid all the other Super Bowl halftime show theories, there's no telling whether or not Kendrick Lamar performs the West Coast banger. If he does, then we hope that Mustard is right there with him to celebrate his latest massive hit. But no matter what's on the horizon, we can't wait to see the whole thing for ourselves.

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Gabriel Bras Nevares is a staff writer for HotNewHipHop. He joined HNHH while completing his B.A. in Journalism & Mass Communication at The George Washington University in the summer of 2022. Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Gabriel treasures the crossover between his native reggaetón and hip-hop news coverage, such as his review for Bad Bunny’s hometown concert in 2024. But more specifically, he digs for the deeper side of hip-hop conversations, whether that’s the “death” of the genre in 2023, the lyrical and parasocial intricacies of the Kendrick Lamar and Drake battle, or the many moving parts of the Young Thug and YSL RICO case. Beyond engaging and breaking news coverage, Gabriel makes the most out of his concert obsessions, reviewing and recapping festivals like Rolling Loud Miami and Camp Flog Gnaw. He’s also developed a strong editorial voice through album reviews, think-pieces, and interviews with some of the genre’s brightest upstarts and most enduring obscured gems like Homeboy Sandman, Bktherula, Bas, and Devin Malik.
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