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

[Worthless Loser]

Never understood the hype. People got sucked in to Drake getting dissed on a national state that they forgot about the actual artistry and performance.

Rappers should not be the main Super Bowl performers. They obviously aren't singers, but they also cannot dance, play instruments or have real showmanship. They are limited in their ability to be true performers. As a result they need a million backup people to move around the stage to create smoke and mirrors. That don't really work either.

The reason Dre's Super Bowl performance went well is because each rapper had a short amount of time to perform a hit song which maximized their momentum with the audience. Some were surprises which gave them a boost and most of them were build on nostalgia.

Having just 1 rapper doing the whole Super Bowl performance is a terrible idea. Especially when chances are, the audience isn't going to know most of the songs. At the most they should be a guest to show up and rap some lyrics on a song they were featured in. Then leave.

I'd rather take a Prince, Bruno Mars or Usher type any day.

 

[Soldier]

The Only big artists with mainstream appeal and recognition left who haven’t headlined a Super Bowl halftime show yet:

Taylor Swift
Drake
Chris Brown
Eminem
Jay-Z
Mariah Carey
Kanye West ( he will never do it for obvious reasons though)
Metallica
Foo Fighters
Green Day
Guns and Roses
Justin Bieber
Morgan Wallen
Luke Combs
Garth Brooks
Shania Twain
Celine Dion
Bon Jovi
Backstreet Boys

Only five black acts in a sea of cacs.

 

[AyBrehHam Linkin]

The sadder part about this whole thing is that people are in a hurry to talk about how trash this halftime was but you’re really running out of more current rappers that could do a halftime show. That’s a bigger problem to me. People are saying Wayne but I don’t know how he would sound doing a whole set in 2025. What rapper post Kendrick, Cole, Drake do you think can do a halftime show? Most people wouldn’t say Cole could

Most people liked it though

Most trending and positive comments on twitter, hundreds of thousands of likes on facebook, instagram etc.

 

[AngryBaby]

Kanye + Drake
Greatest suprbowl half time of all time

Kanye is much...better than Drake though. He honestly wouldnt need him. Drake is more pop, whereas Kanye did the art and the accessibility. He could truly have those old women that never heard him ever, like his (older) music.

Drakes popularity to me...was always a byproduct of people forgetting that kanye west was already doing what drake did...far better.

Drake would put on a good show of recogbizeable radio hits to sing along to...

Kanye would have a person that never listened to him, search his music up in their own time. Dude would inspire....if he didnt fall off abd go crazy

 

[Ɀoᥱɣ]

Captain-Save-A-Drakes out in full force tonight

 

[AngryBaby]

The Only big artists left who haven’t headlined a Super Bowl halftime show yet:

Taylor Swift
Drake
Jay-Z
Kanye West ( he will never do it for obvious reasons though)
Metallica
Foo Fighters
Green Day
Guns and Roses
Justin Bieber
Morgan Wallen
Luke Combs
Garth Brooks
Shania Twain
Celine Dion
Bon Jovi
Backstreet Boys

Only three black acts in a sea of cacs.

Eminem hasnt done his own either, imo he would do well...very well.

 

[Nokids]

Keeping it real this was like Pac headling the Super Bowl in 97’ and people only wanted to hear hit em up.. damn he probably would have killed it

 

[NZA]

biggest flaw was the mic volume.

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

The sadder part about this whole thing is that people are in a hurry to talk about how trash this halftime was but you’re really running out of more current rappers that could do a halftime show. That’s a bigger problem to me. People are saying Wayne but I don’t know how he would sound doing a whole set in 2025. What rapper post Kendrick, Cole, Drake do you think can do a halftime show? Most people wouldn’t say Cole could

Would they get a Meg/Cardi B/Lizzo type show for the SB? Basically all the established female hip-hop/pop acts....because I'm 100% agreeing that the well is getting dry for rap.

Like you have talented cats out there but...... who has a big enough name, isn't a legacy act (basically 50 Cent/Wayne and older) AND has a catalog to really rock a Superb Owl crowd?

 

[Westbama Heartthrob]

The Only big artists left who haven’t headlined a Super Bowl halftime show yet:

Taylor Swift
Drake
Jay-Z
Kanye West ( he will never do it for obvious reasons though)
Metallica
Foo Fighters
Green Day
Guns and Roses
Justin Bieber
Morgan Wallen
Luke Combs
Garth Brooks
Shania Twain
Celine Dion
Bon Jovi
Backstreet Boys

Only three black acts in a sea of cacs.

Might as well just let the cacs have it

Folks don't do anything but complain everytime a black person does it. Unless you bring back mj or prince from the dead, why bother?

Even then, they'd both get canceled anyway. So just get Metallica or some butt rock shyt and call it a day

 

[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 perform with grace and without mistakes all of their greatest hits in under 25-30 minutes with mediocre 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 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 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

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.

 

[TEH]

Say Drake

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.

Quoting you so you don’t delete this trash post once you re read it.

 

[Sad Bunny]

Should have been YM!

 

[Buckeye Fever]

See ya next yr, Post Malone

 

[TEH]

Never understood the hype. People got sucked in to Drake getting dissed on a national state that they forgot about the actual artistry and performance.

Rappers should not be the main Super Bowl performers. They obviously aren't singers, but they also cannot dance, play instruments or have real showmanship. They are limited in their ability to be true performers. As a result they need a million backup people to move around the stage to create smoke and mirrors. That don't really work either.

The reason Dre's Super Bowl performance went well is because each rapper had a short amount of time to perform a hit song which maximized their momentum with the audience. Some were surprises which gave them a boost and most of them were build on nostalgia.

Having just 1 rapper doing the whole Super Bowl performance is a terrible idea. Especially when chances are, the audience isn't going to know most of the songs. At the most they should be a guest to show up and rap some lyrics on a song they were featured in. Then leave.

I'd rather take a Prince, Bruno Mars or Usher type any day.

Kanye
Nikki
Eminem
Drake

Would be more effective than most singers and yeah I realize the politics of even posting their names here.