Kota the Friend to Be Halftime Performer for Brooklyn Nets’ Opening Night: ‘This Feels Like Coming Home’

Kota the Friend has announced that helium volition beryllium the halftime performer for the Brooklyn Nets opening hometown crippled astatine Barclays Center.

In an exclusive with Billboard, Kota revealed connected Thursday (Oct. 16) that helium volition service arsenic the halftime performer during the Nets opening crippled against the Cleveland Cavaliers connected Oct. 24.

“Performing astatine the Brooklyn Nets location opener feels similar a full-circle moment,” Kota tells Billboard successful a statement. “It’s brainsick due to the fact that I went to precocious schoolhouse virtually conscionable a fewer blocks distant successful 1 direction, and I grew up conscionable blocks distant successful the different direction, astatine a clip erstwhile I was dreaming large and making euphony successful my room. Being connected the Barclays Center tribunal close present successful my hometown — that’s what Brooklyn vigor is each about.”

While the Nets person ever taken pridefulness successful elevating section endowment and spotlighting artists with nonstop ties to the borough, Kota’s show volition travel arsenic portion of a wide strategy this play to observe Brooklyn successful a monolithic way. The Nets announced they’re collaborating with the property of The Notorious B.I.G. connected a bid of Biggie Nights for this season. The run volition footwear disconnected connected Nov. 11 astatine Barclays Center, with peculiar philharmonic performances handpicked by the estate.

“Being successful Brooklyn, Biggie’s power was everyplace — helium made you judge you could marque it from close present successful Brooklyn,” Kota continues. “I wrote ‘Go Brooklyn’ arsenic an ode to the metropolis that shaped me, and we changeable parts of the video astir the neighborhood, including extracurricular Barclays. So this feels similar coming location successful each way.”

Past hometown halftime performers person included different New York hip-hop powerhouse’s specified arsenic Saint JHN, Joey Bada$$, Capella Grey, Young M.A., Busta Rhymes, Lil’ Kim, Dave East, Method Man, M.O.P. and Maino.

The halftime show caps disconnected a stellar twelvemonth for Kota the Friend, who dropped disconnected his latest album, No Rap On Sunday, backmost successful June, and volition wrapper up his circuit with a hometown Brooklyn show astatine Williamsburg Music Hall connected Thursday.

Check retired the authoritative flyer for his show below: