Kendrick Lamar's teenage house party music just got exposed at the Superbowl halftime performance

[YaThreadFloppedB!]

I’m not a Drake fan but that shyt was wack. Not a single song from GKMC…

should’ve opened with Bish Don’t Kill My Vibe or Backseat Freestyle. That “Martin had a Dream…Martin had a Dream. Kendrick have a Dream” would’ve been a dope opener and still fit with that theme he was doing.

And why are people saying the message went right over yall heads? Yall swear Kendrick is deep as fukk

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Crodies still searching for a semblance of a W huh...

 

[Tribal Outkast]

Wayne
Drake
Nicki Minaj

Enough said

I’d think that the censors would keep their finger on the button like a bet awards performance if Wayne got up there. Plus I don’t know if he got it anymore

Drake? I mean I guess… he definitely won’t get a chance anytime soon

Nicki? Would people really want to see that? She better get it like sometime in the next 3 years. I think the best bet may be to put all them together. I don’t know about them getting their own set

 

[Hoshi_Toshi]

I like the song selections, mic was too low tho

 

[Tribal Outkast]

Yes. A more deeper discussion here is the quality of hip hop is way worse than it was and it's getting shyttier every year, Cole drake and Kendrick can barely compete with the 90s guys but after them it will probably be no one left

Man we are really running out of possible rappers to do it. Especially with how rap fans love to throw rappers away after they’re done with liking them. Can’t go gong that 90’s rapper well too many more times. I mean Kendrick got it now because he’s red hot. There’s not too many more current rappers that I can think of that could do it. Well really I mean more current rappers that these networks would trust to do it,

 

[Soldier]

The Super Bowl halftime show format doesn’t do justice to artists. They have to impress and convert people who never listened to their music before the show. First impression is the strongest and gaining new fans by just doing a quick and condensed show is hard. They also have to quickly and flawlessly perform without mistakes all of their greatest hits in under 25-30 minutes with garbage acoustics, audio, sound effects and technology. People barely hear their voices if they can hear them at all. That’s why they look like they’re boring and lacking energy. To compensate for it, they are overdoing it with the choreography, dancers, fireworks, visual effects and other gimmicks to save the show but it’s not enough.



I will never judge the entertainment value, quality and talent of artists on their performances in the Super Bowl half time show. It’s tough for them to be at their best on the Super Bowl stage.


Kendrick is a talented artist but his music /biggest hit songs aren’t ubiquitous/pop/up tempo/energetic enough for the Super Bowl show. Super Bowl is watched by everyone from silent generations/boomers to generation alpha, his most successful songs aren’t widely accessible and universally recognizable like that outside of many Millenial/gen z folks. His music is too smooth/slow/ down tempo. You listen his music when you’re a chilled mood in a lowkey and more intimate environment like bars and clubs, not in huge football stadiums. Usually the SB halftime show is given to more popular/marketable artists with more recognizable songs. Even an artist as big and successful as Kendrick Lamar is not a pop culture icon known by the majority of people in North America outside of certain circles. At the end of the day, you just can’t please everybody and there’s no artist on earth who appeals to everyone. Kendrick fans are happy meanwhile the rest of the population out there is not.



Overall I give Kendrick the average mark of 5/10. His show performance was not the best but okay. The show got better and more energetic as it went on, he saved his best stuff for the end

 

[AngryBaby]

Wayne
Drake
Nicki Minaj

Enough said

Kanye west would have shyt on everyone in this list if he didnt go crazy...

And kanye's music is better for stadiums.

Imagine his catalogue...from through the wire, and all falls down. To diamonds are forever, stronger, gold digger, mbdtf, power, it'd be amazing...too bad man.

 

[Shadow King]

PETA working the graveyard shift

 

[LowkeyD]

So yall just gonna skip over the symbolism and artistic expression that tells the whole story

 

[AngryBaby]

I’m not a Drake fan but that shyt was wack. Not a single song from GKMC…

should’ve opened with Bish Don’t Kill My Vibe or Backseat Freestyle. That “Martin had a Dream…Martin had a Dream. Kendrick have a Dream” would’ve been a dope opener and still fit with that theme he was doing.

And why are people saying the message went right over yall heads? Yall swear Kendrick is deep as fukk

Yeah im kinda tired of artists having no awareness about what their best, most accessible songs are.

You have to act like nobody ever heard of you before. And unfortunately...most of the GNX songs are verrrry mid compared to his best work. But yet...he relied on recency only. Not a celebration of his best work.

 

[Soldier]

Man we are really running out of possible rappers to do it. Especially with how rap fans love to throw rappers away after they’re done with liking them. Can’t go gong that 90’s rapper well too many more times. I mean Kendrick got it now because he’s red hot. There’s not too many more current rappers that I can think of that could do it. Well really I mean more current rappers that these networks would trust to do it,

Only rappers from the culture with enough credibility, mass appeal, and hit songs to headline a SB halftime show are drake, Jay-Z, Kanye west, Puff, Wu Tang clan, maybe Lil Wayne… that’s it. I cant think of other ones.

Nas is a legend within the hip hop world but not many people know him outside it.

Future, Lil Baby, Travis Scott, 21Savage, DaBaby, Fetty Wap, J Cole, etc will never headline a Super Bowl halftime show

no culture vultures like post Malone. Don’t make me laugh. He was never a rapper anyway, in his own words.

Maybe Pit Bull, Jason Derulo and Florida, I know these three men are pure commercial pop rappers who compromised their original sound for mainstream success but they are maybe the only ones with marketable appeal and recognizable pop songs everywhere.

 

[MajesticLion]

Edgy.

 

[8WON6]

where them dudes that was laughin at me for defending Lil Wayne?

Also, when SZA is your only help...that's an L. Even Usher brought major help.

 

[Gangstar8]

Kanye west would have shyt on everyone in this list if he didnt go crazy...

And kanye's music is better for stadiums.

Imagine his catalogue...from through the wire, and all falls down. To diamonds are forever, stronger, gold digger, mbdtf, power, it'd be amazing...too bad man.

Kanye + Drake
Greatest suprbowl half time of all time

 

[AngryBaby]

Only rappers from the culture with enough credibility, mass appeal, and hit songs to headline a SB halftime show are drake, Jay-Z, maybe Lil Wayne… that’s it. I cant think of other ones.

Future, Lil Baby, Travis Scott, 21Savage, DaBaby, Fetty Wap, J Cole, etc will never headline a Super Bowl halftime show

no culture vultures like post Malone. Don’t make me laugh. He was never a rapper anyway, in his own words.

Maybe Pit Bull, Jason Derulo and Florida, I know these three men are pure commercial pop rappers who compromised their original sound for mainstream success but they are maybe the only ones with marketable appeal and recognizable pop songs everywhere.

I think he could make this work if he chose the rught tracks in order.

He needed to act as if novody ever heard kendrick lamar, and how he wanted to be understood. Instead he just wanted to perform some recent shyt.

Whereas I think a more artistic display of his best music would have been better than the GNX picks. But he would have to do some kanye west type presentation to have it ve appreciated.

These artists have to think, "How can I make an old lady who nothing about me go ' wow that was dope' "