There isn't just one way to approach a performance on a stage this size - a lot of commentators are assuming the only option is to "give them what they want" by focusing on the stadium full of white people who can afford Superbowl tickets, playing classics, leaning on flashy stage tricks and parading special guests - but that's the cap-doffing, forelock-tugging way that most performers choose in the hope they're given more opportunities in future.
The other option, which is only visible to someone at the peak of their artistic powers is to recognise you've been given the largest stage in the world and nobody is going to stop you delivering the music you want to the world. It's a chance to define your own artistry in front of the entire planet for 13 minutes, to tell them what time you're on and have everyone synchronise watches to it and that's exactly what dot did here.
He rapped. He battled. He educated. He cared. He hated.
He told us in the Apple interview that his mission is to put rap music back out in front. That doesn't mean pandering to the mainstream by playing the choruses they know. It means dragging people away from their comfort zones and reminding them what a truly vital HipHop performance looks like and how POWERFUL a single man can be with a microphone. The art of the MC on full display with not even a hype man for support.
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and he’ll have 250k sales next week … maybe the top single in the country 
