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performance was a bit underwhelming to be honestnot bad .. but weezy prolly woulda been more entertaining if we keepin it a buck i thought the lead up to not like us was funny tho
was in a loud venue with shitty audio so didn't get to check it out til i got home, i liked it.... glad euphoria squeezed its way in thereimpressed with how much he wants to piss on that man's grave. it's 50 cent level of followthrough on beef
Apart from Lollipop and fireman I’m struggling to come up with what else Lil Wayne would perform as his own hits - can’t do his bit on back the azz up and can’t just be performing his verse from Soldier or other guest appearances verses. His own single hits, there are not many. His albums good to listen too from top to bottom but single wise not really
he didn’t perform some of his biggest hits … alright, money trees, don’t kill my vibe and seems like the engineering on his vocals was a little off.. voice was being drowned by the music it wasn’t bad tho …. just not as high a level production as dre had a couple years back
He already performed Alright at the Superbowl with Dre. I can see him not doing that song again. Also can see him not wanting to do songs from over a decade ago. He's had hits since then. Even Humble i was surprised he broke out.
Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl half-time show review – game over for DrakeThe Pulitzer prize-winning rapper chose artistry over more obvious showmanship in an unusual set yet still delivered the final blow to his diss track nemesis4/5 starsThe Super Bowl half-time show is Plato’s perfect form of pomp and ceremony, a corporate-sponsored, highly choreographed musical performance used to entice people who don’t follow the NFL into watching TV in order to secure even higher ad fees from Doritos and Dunkin’ Donuts. Over the years it has provided moments of great spectacle: Prince playing Purple Rain in the rain, Rihanna announcing her pregnancy flanked by hundreds of sperm-looking dancers in duvet drip – but it’s never been a site of serious artistry. Its biggest controversies – Janet Jackson’s nip slip, MIA’s middle finger – have been teenage in their puerility.Could that change with the arrival to the Super Bowl stage of Lamar, one of this decade’s great public intellectuals – a Pulitzer prize-winning rapper who has transformed the possibilities of hip-hop? It’s an unlikely match for the NFL in an ordinary year, but performing in front of a president who has attacked intellectualism, Black activism and the communities in which Lamar was raised, it felt momentous before it even began.But Lamar was not necessarily looking to make a statement. He’s in the most mischievous part of his career and at the crest of his mainstream popularity: in 2024 he released a series of dueling diss tracks with Drake, which culminated in Not Like Us – a song that spent the summer atop the Billboard 200 and repeatedly and specifically calls Drake a paedophile. It’s a joyous song of defiance, but one with a churlish undertone that doesn’t fit with the Super Bowl’s inclusivity. So which Kendrick would be arriving in New Orleans? The prophet or the provocateur?In the end we got flavours of both, with an uneven but ambitious set that was arguably the most esoteric in the Super Bowl’s history, perhaps at the expense of landing a knockout blow. It began with Samuel L Jackson as Uncle Sam, playing the American machine that berated Lamar: “It’s your Uncle Sam, and this is the great American game!”a man performs in front of dancers dressed in whiteLamar began the show atop a 1987 Buick Grand National GNX, the rare car for which his album is named. He performed an unreleased and unnamed track, known on the Kendrick Lamar subreddit as Bodies, an early sign that he wasn’t in New Orleans to play crowd pleasers. His outfit also spoke to a sense of self-possession: he wore a varsity jacket by the British designer Martine Rose and the most incredible pair of boot cut jeans – something straight off the rack from mid-00s American Eagle.The set warmed up with Squabble Up and Humble as dancers flooded the stage dressed in red, white and blue tracksuits, a nod both to the Americana of the occasion and potentially a moment of unity between Compton’s two rival gangs. When the all-Black dance cast started to interplay to form the American flag, it was a moment that felt weighted with significance as Trump looked on (and was rumoured to have left shortly after).As Uncle Sam Jackson yelled at Lamar that he was “too loud, too reckless, too ghetto” (perhaps in a precursor to how this set will be reviewed in red states), Lamar moved into an expansive set that resembled a tarmac Compton street corner, another impressive set that was reminiscent of Es Devlin’s Compton street corner that Lamar performed on with Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg and Eminem at the Super Bowl two years ago.It felt at times more like a Lincoln Center play than a half-time show, with dense layered flows and an interplay of dance, Jackson’s spoken-word moments and Lamar album tracks that didn’t always combine to make an obvious point. Lamar is able to deploy one of the greatest flows in the history of rap, but the onslaught of complex verses didn’t always work in this arena and you occasionally longed for a rousing anthem like Alright or Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe.But things changed halfway through the set when he teased Not Like Us, in a funny interplay with four female dancers. As the opening bars of the song played over the PA, Kendrick joked: “I want to perform their favorite song, but you know they love to sue,” a reference to Drake’s ongoing defamation lawsuit against the pair’s shared record label, Universal Music. In the week leading up to the Super Bowl there were some rumours that the lawsuit would prevent the song being performed.woman in red sings as a man performs behind herAnd for a moment it seemed like it might be. Instead of launching into it, he played Luther and All the Stars, his pair of songs with SZA, whose soaring vocal gave the set a more layered atmosphere and useful counterbalance. Jackson even acknowledged that these more melodic numbers would appease doubting sports fans at home: “That’s what America wants – nice and calm,” he shouted.But then Kendrick slammed on the brakes and swerved in the opposite direction, finally unleashing Not Like Us and it felt euphoric. He revealed a maniacal grin, looking straight down the camera as he said: “Hey Drake”, before launching into his ruinous screed. He did tone down some of the harshest blows – self-censoring the word “paedophile”, likely at both his lawyers’ and censors’ request – but still screeched the devastating lyric: “Tryna strike a chord and it’s probably A minor”, flanked by huge flags that showed small children pointing to a lower-case A. As a final jibe, Serena Williams, an ex-girlfriend of Drake, was seen crip-walking by a lamp post. The Chiefs might have been losing by 27 points at half-time, but it was Drake at that moment who was the biggest loser in North America.Kendrick himself has always seen himself more as an eyewitness than an activist – or as he put it on Family Ties: “I been duckin’ the social gimmicks / I been duckin’ the overnight activists.” This was a classy, intelligent set that chose artistry over easily meme-able moments. Instead the most obvious protest was not seen on TV but in the stadium, as someone managed to join the throng and raise a Palestinian and Sudanese flag atop Kendrick’s GNX. One of the most intriguing things about Lamar is you’ll never know if the protester was storming the stage or a planned part of the set.
huh? do you not know how the super bowl works? it’s mainly legacy acts doing their biggest songs in their catalogue. did u also think snoop n dre shoulda just did songs off compton and i wanna thank me? nobody knew the songs he played.. outside of be humble and not like usthat’s not good
And how many songs did he do from The Chronic and Doggystyle or NWA? Dre’s was a bit different, he’s a legacy artist. KDot is current and releasing new stuff. He doesn’t want to be known for only GKMC stuff just like Dre distancing himself from his old stuff. How can you have Snoop and Dre up there and not perform G Thang, arguably the greatest rap song of all time. Guarantee that was a Dre decision.
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