Kendrick Lamar doing the SuperBowl Halftime show

[Blessings]

"Kendrick Lamar Just Rewrote the Rules of the Super Bowl Halftime Show" TIME
"Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Halftime Show Was a Master Class in Ass-Whooping" TheRinger
"Hip-hop king’s performance will undoubtedly go down as one of the most important halftime shows in the history of the event, if not the most significant mass-televised rap performance of all time" Independent
"Kendrick Lamar brings America and ‘Not Like Us’ into history-making Super Bowl halftime show" The Star
"Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl half-time show review – game over for Drake" The Guardian
"The superstar rapper’s halftime show in New Orleans felt bold like showbiz and intricate like art" The Washington Post

Most publications love it except the right-wing/conservative/MAGA publications (DailyMail) and faceless meme pages like (NFLMemes)

 

[Handsome B. Wonderful]

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[DapMeUp!]

I'm genuinely amused by the disappointment. Even my brother text me. Folk really thought he was going up there to sing bytch Don't Kill My Vibe and Swimming Pools.

Instead he set it off with an unreleased verse and did an album cut spiritual midway. fukk that imaginary setlist you had in your head.




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We need that GNX snippet track released now enough is enough.

Performed it at the Superbowl and we still don't have the full track

 

[Blessings]

 

[Black Excellence]

Anyone whose watched a Kendrick Lamar performance the last 10 years should have been prepared to expect the unexpected. This man has been known to premiere unreleased songs and verses on national tv appearances, incorporate theatrical stage production laced with cryptic messaging all wrapped up in a package that keeps people guessing and chatting for days on end. This is LITERALLY how we ended up getting Untitled Unmastered and some of his most iconic Grammy performances. The nikka was NEVER going to get up there and have a bunch of guests while performing songs he’d already done two years ago or rehashed at the Pop Up. Really in hindsight we Hip Hop heads on the Coli should’ve known he was going to go out of the box. Thats the performer he’s always been.

I loved it personally, except for his mic at the beginning being too low it was a pretty flawless performance from him. SZA outta be ashamed of herself for lip syncing her entire performance while Dot was rapping without even backing vocals 95% of his set. Dude danced, moved, and ran between set pieces rapping while switching up words and lyrics and not losing his flow ONCE. Thats a masterclass of performance artistry the likes of which I haven’t seen an MC do live since Black Thought almost 20 years ago. Kendrick deserves a MOUNTAIN of credit for that alone. My favorite parts were the Man in the Garden and Peakaboo segments and the cheeky shots at Drake before unleashing Not Like Us. Samuel L Jackson was also a nice touch and felt like a nod to his character in Spike Lee’s Chiraq film.

Overall I give it a 8.5/10. Without the mic issues in the beginning and if SZA would’ve actually TRIED to sing just a little I would’ve given it a 9. But as it stands Kendrick did his thing.


Dot need to quit playing and drop that snippet.

After watching it a 3rd time and paying attention to some of the references the good folks on twitter pointed out….this is a top 3 Super Bowl performance.

He did a social commentary on America while artistically showing his pov on America. He could’ve opened up with the hits, instead “he did some ghetto, black shyt”, opened up with him on a car rapping an unreleased song, rapping under fukking street lights with a bunch of the homies.

Eventually he resists and shows he’s a good negro and he’ll play along, hence the Samuel Jackson commentary (get it, Uncle Sam?) and him immediately playing the songs everyone wants to hear. Later you see him and others walking in an assembly line/prison walk in that circle, that could be interpreted as doing what massa wants.

Did all this while like you said, running, moving around, no backing vocals, changing up the lyrics.

Kendrick is clearly a motherfukker who reads because, bro who the hell is thinking of concepts like this for the fukking Super Bowl?

For as militant as coli claims to be, there should be more praise his way. He took “just sing and dance” and said Iite bet I got ya singing and dancing negro right here

Kendrick a cold muthafukka

 

[Scaaar]

After watching it a 3rd time and paying attention to some of the references the good folks on twitter pointed out….this is a top 3 Super Bowl performance.

He did a social commentary on America while artistically showing his pov on America. He could’ve opened up with the hits, instead “he did some ghetto, black shyt”, opened up with him on a car rapping an unreleased song, rapping under fukking street lights with a bunch of the homies.

Eventually he resists and shows he’s a good negro and he’ll play along, hence the Samuel Jackson commentary (get it, Uncle Sam?) and him immediately playing the songs everyone wants to hear. Later you see him and others walking in an assembly line/prison walk in that circle, that could be interpreted as doing what massa wants.

Did all this while like you said, running, moving around, no backing vocals, changing up the lyrics.

Kendrick is clearly a motherfukker who reads because, bro who the hell is thinking of concepts like this for the fukking Super Bowl?

For as militant as coli claims to be, there should be more praise his way. He took “just sing and dance” and said Iite bet I got ya singing and dancing negro right here

Kendrick a cold muthafukka

You see the ones in here hating on it. They wanted BossMan Dlo or Sexy Redd up there instead....Theyre more concerned about being appeasing and accepted than getting someone thats truly for us...smh

 

[larsattack]

SZA went from standing in the back like a character you haven’t unlocked yet to performing at the Super Bowl

 

[Black Excellence]

You see the ones in here hating on it. They wanted BossMan Dlo or Sexy Redd up there instead....Theyre more concerned about being appeasing and accepted than getting someone thats truly for us...smh

Talk your shyt family

We don’t deserve Kendrick, this is fukking crazy

 

[semicko82]

I'm glad they went the social commentary route than a medley of greatest hits.

You don't have to agree with it or like it, but you have to respect the gangsta of it all

 

[derro13]

 

[derro13]

"Kendrick Lamar Just Rewrote the Rules of the Super Bowl Halftime Show" TIME
"Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Halftime Show Was a Master Class in Ass-Whooping" TheRinger
"Hip-hop king’s performance will undoubtedly go down as one of the most important halftime shows in the history of the event, if not the most significant mass-televised rap performance of all time" Independent
"Kendrick Lamar brings America and ‘Not Like Us’ into history-making Super Bowl halftime show" The Star
"Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl half-time show review – game over for Drake" The Guardian
"The superstar rapper’s halftime show in New Orleans felt bold like showbiz and intricate like art" The Washington Post

Rightfully so. Classic moment.

 

[Scaaar]

Talk your shyt family

We don’t deserve Kendrick, this is fukking crazy

It's disgusting to see them talk like that but not unexpected. They would gladly clap up and dap up people that will go up there and be a caricature of how the world views us for some dollars and clout and at the same time try to say we need to advance black folks...smh

 

[Braman]

4 all-time selling rappers vs 1

They had less pressure to do more than just rap.

Bc of that pressure, kendrick added too much. Did too much “rapping”. That’s just too hard to hear and decipher in that setting. In real time I didn’t make out anything he said in that intro (new lyrics at a Super Bowl is a bad idea), didn’t even catch the ‘I wanna perform that song but they’ll sue’.

 

[MINT]

Was an absolute masterclass.

 

[Blessings]

Talk your shyt family

We don’t deserve Kendrick, this is fukking crazy

The ones hating on it don't care about the culture or hip-hop.
They're MAGA/Right-Wing/Conservative (publications like Dailymail) and OVO/Drake fans who care more about the pop-side of Drake.

Then there are the few in our community obsessed with Lil Wayne and other ignorant BS.

With Drake/OVO's connection with these red pill/incel streamers, there's a lot of overlap between that crowd and white supremacy/MAGA.