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

[spliz]

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

Like I said. Him performing “Alright” in front of that MAGA crowd with Trump there would’ve been crazy. Son fumbled. Period.

 

[xCivicx]

N!gga it’s not your girl or wife dancing on you out there in front of thousands calm down

Drake did this to himself

??

That's why I said IMAGINE it was it was your wife doing that

That's corny af for her to do period. She used to let that dude smash. And NOW she's married to another dude. She should sat this one out

If this was happening to anyone else but Drake, yall would be saying that the female doing it is garbage

Yall aren't consistent. Your clear bias is clouding your judgement

 

[Carl Tethers]

Told yall that Kendrick is a mediocre artist

GKMC is a classic, but pretty much everything else he's put out has been mid

Flat earther smooth brain babble

 

[™BlackPearl The Empress™]

The defeat, lack of cultural pride, poor taste and inability to relate the performance to the political environment in this thread is astonishing yet not surprising.

 

[xCivicx]

100,000,000+ people and a whole stadium singing certified pedophile and A Minooooooooooor was really all I needed to see from this. All them fake ass embrace love commercials and King Kendrick came through with the hate

When did this happen??

 

[xCivicx]

Flat earther smooth brain babble

You can add Kendrick verses to that 8 year old thread whenever you want btw

 

[Carl Tethers]

Like I said. Him performing “Alright” in front of that MAGA crowd with Trump there would’ve been crazy. Son fumbled. Period.

Why tf would he perform that song?

 

[UpNext]

When did this happen??

You got me on the 100,000,000+, the 80,000+ stadium was definitely calling him a pedophile and singing A-Minoooooor tho.

The crowd went crazy!!! Ya'll tripping.


The revolution will be televised!

 

[spliz]

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, 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.

Jay, Wayne, Drake, Nicki, Pharrell, Missy, Busta, if he wasn’t in trouble. Puff would smoke it too.

 

[spliz]

Why tf would he perform that song?

Are u stupid? It’s black history month. It’s a hit record everyone knows. And it fits the climate we are in.

 

[xCivicx]

I enjoyed it. I know Kdot isn't everyone's cup of tea. I appreciate that he doesn't water himself down to appeal to everyone and he stays himself. Which was the messaging of the whole Sam Jackson bit in the performance . Rap has gotten too microwaved and watered down. People want these catchy bops instead of stuff with substance in it.

I think it's crazy that yall will disparage Drake for having a large white fan base but with Kendrick, who is almost UNIVERSALLY LOVED by white people, its fine

I thought yall told me the very definition of "watered down" is something that is "safe" enough to appeal to white people en masse

That's literally Kendrick lamar

 

[Westbama Heartthrob]

Usher killed it last year. What are you talking about

One example, gee you sure got me there

And folks were still complaining anyway. Literally the same shyt when it was announced he was performing

"He don't have the catalog"
"He can't carry it by himself"

Just cause the coli liked it doesn't mean that the same bytching and moaning wasn't going on elsewhere

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[IIVI]

Honestly, that performance probably would’ve hit harder with Kamala leading. It would’ve been more like a victory lap.

This Trump shyt is fukking it all up. I already know Trump admin was probably smug af watching it.

Performance was weird like half of it was celebrating the win vs Drake (the best part), the other half a political message but for people who won’t bother to care.

 

[xCivicx]

He doesn’t have the catalogue for this. You have to be a household name, and have hits people recognize who don’t listen to your music.

I was told in that other thread that Kendrick has an "objectively perfect" discography though

 

[xCivicx]

That 20 Acres & a Mule hit you in your chest, huh?

Tf does this even mean