Half -Time Show + Photos – Boise State Public Radio

Updated on February 10, 2025 at 00:20

In a few minutes on Sunday evening, the Caesarian’s super -Dommy in New Orleans was teleported 1.895 miles to the city of Compton, California. Kendrick LamarThe first solo rapper to head the NFL Super Bowl Half Show is well known for holding the West Coast hip hip hip and burns it bright so everyone can see.

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With the biggest audience captive of your career – about 65,000 fans at SuperDome and Millions More at home – the performance of Lamar created a medal of songs, mainly downloaded from his last album, GNX. As a respected lyricist, he has always been adamant to maintain the artistic form and sports of rap, however politically incorrect or uncomfortable this commitment.

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For the Annual America of God, Country and Football, Lamar He plays in fears that he is too dangerous for the largest scene in the country with ominous pleasure, giving it clear that he will not soften his contempt or approach to the general public.

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Actor Samuel L. Jackson opened the show dressed as a satirical Uncle Sam, who will spend the whole set by heading to every move of Lamar, warning not to do anything “too strong, too reckless, too reckless.”

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In response, Lamar went burned to the ground of the opponent, who spent the last year, burying himself and positioning himself as a prophet of America’s messy reality.

The “revolution” will be television. You chose the right time, but the wrong boys, “said the 37-year-old. While dozens of dancers were poured out of a shiny black Buick GNX, Lamar jumped out of the stage to perform a” gather up “and then fit into his single for 2017” Humble.

“Do you really know how to play the game?” Uncle Samuel L. quarreled. “Then tighten!”

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The long -awaited implementation was already the source of some disputes before it even aired. Controversial: whether Lamar will include his hit single from 2024, “Not Like Us” in performance. The song that came out of enmity with colleague Star Drake quickly became one of the hits of Lamar, setting streaming records and winning him both the records of the year and the Song of the Year awards At the Grammy Awards last weekS He is also at the center of a current case.

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In January Drake’s lawyers brought a defamation case Against the Universal Music Group, the parent company behind rapper’s recording labels, accusing the corporation of distribution and strongly promoting “not like us” as a way of damaging Toronto Rime’s reputation. The song includes texts accusing Drake of being a pedophile and “colonizer” of hip-hop culture. In his trial, Drake claims that the record company knows that the accusations are false, but they are promoted anyway.

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While Lamar fulfilled others Gnx Songs like “A Man in the Garden” and “Peekaboo”, he knew the moment everyone was waiting. He hinted hard about the dispute several times throughout his set, smiling when the string was instrumental for “not like us” for the first time exploded through the Superdoma. “But you know they like to judge,” he said.

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But instead of playing the full song, Lamar Pump is falsified, throwing the spotlight on R&B Superstar Sza to fulfill its verse on “Luther”, their current top 10 hit of Gnx, followed by the cooperation of the two artists “all stars” Black Panther: The album, Soundtrack’s album Lamar Executive produced in 2018. The sparkling, safe, raised track, as if soothe Uncle Samuel – but in just a few seconds.

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It turned out that the hint of these softer songs was a setting: “They tried to put the game, but you can’t falsify your influence,” Lamar growled when he started in full performance of “Not Like Us”. He grinned directly on the camera without skipping the name of Drake or any of the lyric statements. Adding an insult to the injury, Pan to the camera revealed a tennis champion, a native of Compton (and the ex -girlfriend of Drake) Serina Williams Krip, who walks to Bop. The production even cut the music for the crowd to sing the most famous line of the song: “Try to hit the chord and it is probably A-Minor.”

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Annexed to Centerfield by his producer, DJ Mustard, Lamar closed his halftime show with “TV off”, turning the chorus to a song garnish.

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