{"id":195147,"date":"2025-12-20T17:10:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T17:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/195147\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T17:10:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T17:10:14","slug":"kendrick-lamar-sza-reunite-at-tde-christmas-concert-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/195147\/","title":{"rendered":"Kendrick Lamar &#038; SZA Reunite at TDE Christmas Concert 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/kendrick-lamar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kendrick Lamar<\/a> made a surprise appearance at his former label Top Dawg Entertainment\u2019s 2025 Christmas Concert and Toy Drive in Los Angeles on Thursday, December 18th. During the show, the rapper joined his <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/04\/kendrick-lamar-sza-grand-national-tour-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u201cGrand National\u201d<\/a> tourmate\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/sza\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">SZA<\/a> to perform two of their recent collaborations.<\/p>\n<p>This included their worldwide No. 1 hit, <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/04\/kendrick-lamar-luther-video-sza\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u201cluther,\u201d<\/a> from Lamar\u2019s\u00a0latest album, <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2024\/11\/kendrick-lamar-gnx-album-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">GNX<\/a>, and \u201c30 for 30,\u201d off SZA\u2019s SOS deluxe reissue,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/02\/sza-lana-sos-deluxe-four-new-songs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">LANA<\/a>. Kendrick also performed his solo track <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2024\/11\/kendrick-lamar-squabble-up-video-references\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u201csquabble up.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Watch fan-shot footage below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/48KjHWg\" class=\"button button-ticket\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Buy GNX on Vinyl\/CD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to SZA, the charity concert featured TDE artists Ab-Soul, Doechii, Isaiah Rashad, Jay Rock, Lance Skiiiwalker, Ray Vaughn, ScHoolboy Q, SiR, and Zacari.<\/p>\n<p>Next February, Kendrick will vie for <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/11\/grammys-2026-nominations-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">nine Grammys<\/a>, including Album of the Year for\u00a0GNX. Read our own Kiana Fitzgerald\u2019s essay about\u00a0how the album and his Drake beef <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/12\/hip-hop-died-reborn-kendrick-clipse-jid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">signaled a course correction<\/a> in hip-hop.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kendrick Lamar And SZA Performed \u201cLuther\u201d At The 2025 TDE Christmas Jingle Ball <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bSTIvlYjdE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/bSTIvlYjdE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related Video<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mr GNX (@MrGNX407) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrGNX407\/status\/2001865032079216708?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">December 19, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kendrick Lamar And SZA Go 30 For 30 At The 2025 TDE Christmas Jingle Ball <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PyRWBn64D7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/PyRWBn64D7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mr GNX (@MrGNX407) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrGNX407\/status\/2001840178265231693?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">December 19, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kendrick Lamar made a surprise appearance at his former label Top Dawg Entertainment\u2019s 2025 Christmas Concert and Toy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":{"0":"post-195147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}