Kendrick Lamar, Megan Thee Stallion and Willow booked for ‘SNL’
Kendrick Lamar, Megan Thee Stallion and Willow have been introduced as musical company for the brand new season of Saturday Evening Live (SNL).
The forty eighth season of the NBC’s sketch present begins on October 1, with Lamar kicking off the sequence premiere that’s hosted by actor Miles Teller.
Willow is booked for the next week (October 8) when actor Brendan Gleeson hosts. Then, on October 15, Megan Thee Stallion shall be on responsibility as each host and musical visitor.
The brand new season of SNL options solid members Marcello Hernandez, Molly Kearney, Michael Longfellow and Devon Walker. Previous members Pete Davidson, Aidy Bryant, Chris Redd, Kate McKinnon and Kyle Mooney, amongst others, have since departed the present.
Lamar final appeared on SNL in 2018 when he carried out ‘Tints’ with Anderson .Paak.
Megan Thee Stallion made her SNL debut in October 2019 when she performed ‘Good-looking’ with host Likelihood the Rapper. The next 12 months she carried out ‘Savage’ and ‘Don’t Cease’.
In associated information, former SNL solid member Rob Schneider has stated that he thinks Kate McKinnon’s cowl of ‘Hallelujah’ marked the second the present was “over”.
Schneider has stated he believes the long-running sketch sequence went downhill after the 2016 US presidential election, throughout which McKinnon performed Hillary Clinton.
After Donald Trump was elected, one episode noticed McKinnon as Clinton sing ‘Hallelujah’ in character for a chilly open of the present.
“I hate to crap on my outdated present,” Schneider stated of the scene in a latest interview with The Blaze‘s Glenn Beck. “I actually prayed, ‘Please have a joke on the finish. Don’t do that. Please don’t go down there.’
“And there was no joke on the finish, and I went, ‘It’s over. It’s over. It’s not going to return again.’”
In the meantime, Lamar’s newest album ‘Mr. Morale and The Huge Steppers’ has been nominated for Hip Hop Album Of The 12 months at subsequent month’s BET Hip Hop Awards.