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DUBCC - Tha Connection => West Coast Connection => Topic started by: Sccit on September 08, 2024, 06:37:12 PM
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https://www.instagram.com/p/C_qUwHWvjZi/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
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The South is not happy about this!
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lil wayne manager already speakin out
https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/840765-kendrick-lamar-super-bowl-lil-wayne-reactions-hip-hop-news
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It is funny thinking Lil' Wayne is relevant enough to headline the Superbowl. He was a great artist, but nobody is looking for him nowdays.
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The South is not happy about this!
Why
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It is funny thinking Lil' Wayne is relevant enough to headline the Superbowl. He was a great artist, but nobody is looking for him nowdays.
i mean… his prime was up there .. at one point he was the biggest thing in the game hands down…. and is from New Orleans…… so it’s not really a stretch, super bowl is actually more known for legacy acts than someone like kendrick who is still carving out his resume
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i mean… his prime was up there .. at one point he was the biggest thing in the game hands down…. and is from New Orleans…… so it’s not really a stretch, super bowl is actually more known for legacy acts than someone like kendrick who is still carving out his resume
yeah exactly...Usher, Rihanna, Dre... etc
it really is surprising to me that Kendrick got the nod for the Super Bowl
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That could be a nice moment for new album.
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https://www.instagram.com/p/C_qySizy0XE/
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It is funny thinking Lil' Wayne is relevant enough to headline the Superbowl. He was a great artist, but nobody is looking for him nowdays.
I'm from New Orleans and I agree that Wayne shouldn't be there. Neither should Kendrick for the record.
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https://www.instagram.com/p/C_tRdROSPcK/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA==
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Why
You really gotta ask why?? Aren’t you the same guy who said ice cube isn’t relative anymore. Gotta be a troll
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I'm from New Orleans and I agree that Wayne shouldn't be there. Neither should Kendrick for the record.
Really? Who would you pick?
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I Don t care about Wayne.
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performance was a bit underwhelming to be honest
not 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
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performance was a bit underwhelming to be honest
not 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
You're right Lil Wayne would have killed it if he performed this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SliXMDPRs1o
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Okay show. The best part of the show is mustard flowers.
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good show
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not a Wayne fan but I thought he should have been headlining since the game was in New Orleans and especially since the Super Bowl features mostly legacy acts for their halftime show
as far as Kendrick I liked the Not Like Us performance but the rest was pretty average
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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 there
impressed with how much he wants to piss on that man's grave. it's 50 cent level of followthrough on beef
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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 there
impressed with how much he wants to piss on that man's grave. it's 50 cent level of followthrough on beef
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
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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
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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
of course he can do back dat azz up and all those hits he’s featured on … he’s one of the most featured rappers and super bowl is notorious for having tons of different stars come out at the half time show.. actually woulda been the perfect opportunity to bring them out
and was pretty weird to see kendrick do his entire set solo
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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.
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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.
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?
:mjlol:
nobody knew the songs he played.. outside of be humble and not like us
that’s not good
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Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl half-time show review – game over for Drake
The Pulitzer prize-winning rapper chose artistry over more obvious showmanship in an unusual set yet still delivered the final blow to his diss track nemesis
4/5 stars
The 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 white
Lamar 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 her
And 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.
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I thought it was fine. Not the worst or best halftime I've seen. Probably won't be remembered (bad or good) in 10 years.
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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?
:mjlol:
nobody knew the songs he played.. outside of be humble and not like us
that’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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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.
dre n snoop still performed nothing but hits .. and none of their recent stuff, because they know it doesn’t resonate wit the crowd
the stuff kendrick performed outside of be humble and not like us werent hits. nobody in the crowd had any idea what those songs were
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Every Hidden Easter Egg in Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Performance | What Everyone Missed!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y0ffn7eo8k
You guys, Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl performance is going down as one of the best and most iconic in history! But did you catch all the hidden meanings and Easter eggs? A lot of people noticed something deeper, and we tracked down every internet expert to break it all down. From the symbolism to the secret messages, we’re revealing everything you missed. Get ready because the results are going to shock you! We’re diving into Kendrick Lamar’s halftime show, uncovering the hidden Easter eggs, and explaining all the symbolism that has everyone talking. If you’re a fan of hip-hop, Super Bowl performances, or Kendrick Lamar, you don’t want to miss this breakdown!
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The balls on K-Dot for doing what he did. That show is not going to be everybody's thing, but you have to respect his willingness to do whatever he wants to do. IMO that is true artistry. As the first true solo rap act to perform, he did exactly what he wanted to do and didn't go for appeasing everyone, The choice to highlight his new album, which happens to be the only album released on his new label, where he owns the masters was a smart choice. Streaming numbers for all those songs have increased by 200% in a day and you can't look at anything today without someone having a take about the show.
If you love Drake, white, and over a certain age, you might not have cared for it. If you love music, hip hop, or are under 40, you probably enjoyed it. Rap at it's best has always been about irreverence and rebellion. Last night was irreverence and rebellion at it's finest.
Last night is the reason Kendrick is a GOAT and it is fun to watch him continue to outmaneuver his generation of rappers.
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dre n snoop still performed nothing but hits .. and none of their recent stuff, because they know it doesn’t resonate wit the crowd
the stuff kendrick performed outside of be humble and not like us werent hits. nobody in the crowd had any idea what those songs were
All The Stars was a huge hit for him. People in the crowd knew that song. SZA got a huge entrance for it too. DNA was a decent hit for him too. I think he did exactly what he should have done. Half hits and half sprinkled in some new stuff to get people interested in some new songs.
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All The Stars was a huge hit for him. People in the crowd knew that song. SZA got a huge entrance for it too. DNA was a decent hit for him too. I think he did exactly what he should have done. Half hits and half sprinkled in some new stuff to get people interested in some new songs.
i’ll give u all the stars
crowd didnt know the other songs tho
from a hip-hop perspective, it was cool
from a universal nfl fan perspective, it wasn’t as spectacular and well received as your traditional halftime show
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I’ve seen a lot of Democrats and Republicans over-react on both sides of this. Republicans like Jason Whitlock saying it was some sort of Satanic hate America performance, democrats saying he’s some genius and it was the most revolutionary performance of all time… both sides over reacting
It was art, it was satire and subtlety. Not a big Kendrick fan but I still think it was a pretty impressive performance. I don’t like racial narratives anymore those same themes have been used again and again going back to PE and NWA in the 80’s — that shit is so tired and as a Trump guy I think they aren’t even applicable. So if I was still a self-hating anti-American white like I was 18-25 years old I would have loved the performance even more.
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i’ll give u all the stars
crowd didnt know the other songs tho
from a hip-hop perspective, it was cool
from a universal nfl fan perspective, it wasn’t as spectacular and well received as your traditional halftime show
I pretty much agree but for Kendrick I think it wasn’t possible for him to give a legacy peformance because he doesn’t have those crossover hits like Prince and MJ or “Next Episode” and shit like that
So I think Kendrick did the best with what he had
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DNA, Humble, TV Off & Squabble Up are all hits with the last two being current hits.
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I pretty much agree but for Kendrick I think it wasn’t possible for him to give a legacy peformance because he doesn’t have those crossover hits like Prince and MJ or “Next Episode” and shit like that
So I think Kendrick did the best with what he had
he still has joints bigger than the ones he performed tho
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DNA, Humble, TV Off & Squabble Up are all hits with the last two being current hits.
humble is the only one your average NFL fan might know
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i was expecting a better show honestly. also i didn't feel set list is good.
kendrick has way more better concerts than this. even his 3 min perfermonce on dr. dre's half time s how was better than this.
but i liked it anyway. it was good.
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https://www.billboard.com/culture/tv-film/super-bowl-lix-scores-ratings-record-second-year-row-1235898290/
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he still has joints bigger than the ones he performed tho
what do ya'll think he should of performed?
I still remember back in the day the first time I ever saw Kendrick he performed "Weed, Women, Weather" that banger with Dre at Coachella. His performance wasn't that impressive but the song was good. That was the same legendary moment they brought out the Pac hologram.
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thought it was cool... im telling you, you could have run 1 million simulations of how this beef could have gone and none would have had the nail in the coffitn getting 5 grammies and being performaed at the super bowl lmao
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K dot aint got no hits... maybe one.. they not like us
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i’ll give u all the stars
crowd didnt know the other songs tho
from a hip-hop perspective, it was cool
from a universal nfl fan perspective, it wasn’t as spectacular and well received as your traditional halftime show
From a universal NFL crowd perspective, you're always going to have about half the people not like it. I'm taking myself for example, next year's halftime show could have the greatest country singer of all time and perform all of his biggest hits and i would still think it sucked because i'm not a country fan. There are people here at my job who didn't even know who Kendrick Lamar was, let alone would know any of his songs. When you have 8-80 year olds watching the game, no way you're going to resonate with everyone no matter how big of a star you are. Many of the common people are not hip hop fans, just is what it is. If Kendrick would've done Money Trees and a few other hits from GKMC like you suggested, wouldn't have made any difference in the eyes of many NFL fans.
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From a universal NFL crowd perspective, you're always going to have about half the people not like it. I'm taking myself for example, next year's halftime show could have the greatest country singer of all time and perform all of his biggest hits and i would still think it sucked because i'm not a country fan. There are people here at my job who didn't even know who Kendrick Lamar was, let alone would know any of his songs. When you have 8-80 year olds watching the game, no way you're going to resonate with everyone no matter how big of a star you are. Many of the common people are not hip hop fans, just is what it is. If Kendrick would've done Money Trees and a few other hits from GKMC like you suggested, wouldn't have made any difference in the eyes of many NFL fans.
brother u don’t have to always dig and find ways to overcomplicate things …. this reminds me of the time u said that we don’t know if songs on missionary are timeless hits …
let’s keep it simple here ….. bottom line = he has songs far more popular than the ones he did. doing popular songs that at least the core hip-hop audience know would resonate on a higher level
but he’s actually getting critical acclaim for the performance and people raving about how deep the message was, so what do i know …. i’m just saying from an entertainment point of view, the super bowl has always been a place where the biggest stars perform their biggest hits …… nothin more nothin less
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'MISTAKE WAS MADE' NFL reveals ‘regret’ over Super Bowl halftime show after issuing apology following Kendrick Lamar performance
An insider revealed how the NFL will decide the halftime performers in the future
Steve BrennerCarsen Holaday
Published: 17:09 ET, Feb 12 2025Updated: 11:03 ET, Feb 13 2025
THE NFL is feeling regret for picking Kendrick Lamar over Lil Wayne for the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show, sources have exclusively told The U.S. Sun.
Insiders have said that league officials feel they made a mistake after earlier issuing an apology to Lil Wayne, 42, for snubbing him for the monumental performance in his hometown of New Orleans.
The NFL sent an apology letter to the iconic rapper after picking Kendrick for the gig back in September, Skip Bayless shockingly revealed earlier this week.
Now, a staffer said officials wish they went with Lil Wayne for the job after fans were underwhelmed with Kendrick's show.
"A mistake was made and we regret the choice that was made," an NFL employee told The U.S. Sun.
"Lil Wayne should have been the first option, as he is from New Orleans and we know that there was a clear motivation for him and his side to do a unique show in his town."
The NFL insider said from now on the organization "would like to have artists that have some more connection to the place, the city, the state where the game will be played."
"Lil Wayne was the obvious choice, and the choice made wasn't the best one at all," the source continued.
They lamented the decision would have taken "a couple of minutes" to finalize and Lil Wayne "would have been thrilled to do the halftime show in his hometown.
"We regret not pushing for him as much as we should have," they concluded.
'CITY OF LIL WAYNE'
A second NFL insider echoed the regrettable decision.
"I mean, New Orleans is the city of Lil Wayne," the league insider said.
"He did a lot and it would have been fantastic to have him do the halftime show and show his love, and feel the love, from his hometown.
"The choice was clearly the wrong one, and now the goal is to not make the same mistake from now on."
'I BLAME MYSELF'
Lil Wayne previously opened up about his disappointment in not being selected for the gig.
"I blame myself for not being mentally prepared for a letdown and for just automatically mentally putting myself in that position," he said on Instagram Live in September.
"I thought there was nothing better than that spot, that stage, that platform, in my city.
"So it hurt, it hurt a whole lot."
Bayless, a friend of Lil Wayne, previously said the NFL's decision to skip the rapper shocked him at first.
"When the news first broke, it hit Wayne hard," Bayless said.
"He didn't feel like doing much of anything for several long days and nights. He's better now."
'NOT ONE SECOND'
Lil Wayne is a weekly guest on NFL's Sunday pregame show, NFL GameDay Morning, on the NFL Network.
However, Bayless said Lil Wayne planned to skip the halftime show during the game.
"He will watch the game, just not the halftime show. Not one second," he said.
Kendrick has not spoken out on the backlash since Sunday - and is already in the middle of another feud with rival rapper Drake which took center stage during his show.
He performed his controversial tune Not Like Us to round off the spectacle, in which he takes a dig at Drake and shockingly insinuates he's a pedophile.
Drake has already sued Unniversal Music over the track and many NFL fans questioned whether Kendrick would risk performing it on his big night.
Kendrick, as exclusively revealed by The U.S. Sun, had no hesitation unleashing the controversial diss track.
The Grammy award-winning star pointedly didn't sing the word "pedophile" in front of a global TV audience of hundreds of millions.
But the 37-year-old had no issue singing the rest of the lyrics, including the now infamous "A minor" putdown, at which point the crowd could be heard singling along.
According to a friend of Kendrick's, the sparkling necklace he wore during the show, which gleamed with 515 diamonds including an encrusted lowercase letter "a," was a further jab at Drake.
The U.S. Sun has been told Kendrick's people were "all caught by surprise" and "stunned with the detail" when he put on the necklace after receiving it from Eliantte, a private jeweler in New York City, just 24 hours before the game.
The insider says Kendrick spent $1.2 million on the necklace.
"Kendrick succeeded in wanting to pass his message and not be censored," the insider said.
"Everyone thought it was a brilliant way of having his lyrics and message echoed by the masses. It was the kind of genius move only ultra-smart people would make."
The NFL hasn't returned The U.S. Sun's request for comment.
https://www.the-sun.com/sport/13530440/nfl-lil-wayne-super-bowl-halftime-show-kendrick-lamar/
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https://www.the-sun.com/sport/13530440/nfl-lil-wayne-super-bowl-halftime-show-kendrick-lamar/
Please...let's look at the sources of this "An NFL Insider", "A Staffer", "An NFL Employee" "League Insider", "2nd NFL Insider",
Give me a break. If they wanted Wayne, they would've had him. If they regretted it, they could've booked Wayne as a special guest all the way up to the day before the Super Bowl. Just trying to make something out of nothing, especially with all these 'anonymous' fake sources.
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brother u don’t have to always dig and find ways to overcomplicate things …. this reminds me of the time u said that we don’t know if songs on missionary are timeless hits …
let’s keep it simple here ….. bottom line = he has songs far more popular than the ones he did. doing popular songs that at least the core hip-hop audience know would resonate on a higher level
but he’s actually getting critical acclaim for the performance and people raving about how deep the message was, so what do i know …. i’m just saying from an entertainment point of view, the super bowl has always been a place where the biggest stars perform their biggest hits …… nothin more nothin less
maybe he tried to load up on songs he owns more rights to since he's quasi independent now? hence newer stuff
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Please...let's look at the sources of this "An NFL Insider", "A Staffer", "An NFL Employee" "League Insider", "2nd NFL Insider",
Give me a break. If they wanted Wayne, they would've had him. If they regretted it, they could've booked Wayne as a special guest all the way up to the day before the Super Bowl. Just trying to make something out of nothing, especially with all these 'anonymous' fake sources.
Nah. Just because a source is unnamed, that doesn't means that the story is fake. Some people just choose to remain in the background. Dj Akademiks leaked Kendrick's playlist before the Super Bowl. Obviously he didn't name specifically who it came from because that would have gotten the person in trouble. It was an anonymous source. Joe Budden went on a goofy rant saying how it was fake and it turned out to be real.
Skip Bayless spoke on the NFL apologizing to Wayne.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H0JbpVBvSw
The NFL gave RocNation the job of choosing talent for the SuperBowl. JayZ doesn't rock with Wayne. You must not remember the back and forth they had some years back. Wayne even talked about kidnapping Beyonce. There is no way that Wayne would be chosen to do the SuperBowl. On top of that, Wayne put Drake on. He's loyal to Drake and Kendrick is the opp.
I wouldn't be surprised if the NFL did regret having Kendrick there because there has been alot of controversy as well as mixed reviews. The NFL is using music entertainment to divert attention away from all of the politics that had come into play over recent years. You had the police brutality protest, the not standing for the national anthem, then the kneeling and then it got spun into whether or not Kapernick could play. Once they brought in Roc Nation and Jay Z said 'we are past kneeling', all of the political stuff went away. Kendrick's show was political. Exactly what the NFL was trying to get away from.
I posted about the NFL's hesitation a month ago.
NFL allegedly asked Kendrick Lamar to not perform “Not Like Us” at Super Bowl
While Kendrick Lamar’s performance at the Super Bowl halftime show is widely anticipated, the NFL seems hesitant. Especially those with strong political undertones.
https://www.dubcnn.com/connect/index.php/topic,344500.0.html
I don't think this is bs but, we'll see in the next few days if the NFL comes out with a statement addressing this. If they say it's bs then so be it. I don't care either way. I still haven't seen the performance. Hell, I still haven't seen the Dre/Snoop, 50 and Em one either.
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Kendrick kills it as usual. Fire performance 8)