Kendrick Lamar Super Bowl’s halftime show was a big teaser

“I want to play their favorite song … But you know they love to judge,” said Kendrick Lamar, a few minutes in his SUPER BOWL show.

Everyone knew what he meant. Not like us, his brutal overthrow of rap opponent Drake was one of last year’s breakthrough hits, winning a billion spotify streams and five Grammy awards, including Song of the Year.

But there were questions whether Lamar would play it – or can even play it – in Super Bowl, after Drake filed a defamation case For texts that marked him a sexual predator, which he denies.

Lamar leaned into the dilemma, annoying the song again and again during his set, before he finally gave the audience what they wanted.

When the song finally plays, Kendrick self-censors the most controversial lyric in which he calls Drake a “certified pedophile”.

But he looked directly into the camera with a mischievous smile as he called Drake’s name; and left intactly the famous double entry of the song: “Try to hit the chord and probably is MinorS “

This lyrics echoed around the Louisiana Caesar superdom, which shows that no amount of legal action can never hope to reduce the popularity of the song.

Playing it, Lamar was expected to reach more than 120 million television viewers who had set up to see the game in which Philadelphia eagles defeated the chiefs of Kansas 40-22 To deny them unprecedented third right Super Bowl.

The performance was further enhanced by the surprising appearance of tennis star Serina Williams, who performed Crip Walk, a notorious dance move in Los Angeles – while Lamar launched the scene.

Drake’s lawyers are suing Lamar Universal Music Group’s recording label through the track, accusing him of an attempt to “create a viral hit” by a song that made “false factual statements” for the star.

Sunday celebrated the first time a solo rapper led the Super Bowl, and Lamar brought a sophisticated stage show full of dancers, fireworks and special guests.

But the rapper’s lyrics have always examined the contradictions between the ego and the self -awareness, and its Super Bowl set put this conflict in the spotlight.

He introduced himself on a giant board and crossed cross, flipping between introspective deep cuts (usually placed inside the XS) and pleasant hits of the ranking (which were held in the General Assembly).

Actor Samuel L Jackson, dressed as Uncle Sam, behaved like Emcee – giving rise to Lamar when he became too self -confident, praising his duets with R&B singer Sza.

“That’s what I’m talking about,” Jackson said, after the duo performed all the stars, the ballad from the soundtrack to the Marvel Black Panther movie.

“That’s what America wants, nice and calm.”

But whatever Lamar does, the energy was electrifying.

The early accents included modest and DNA, both taken from the album of the Pulitzer Prize by the rapper DAMN, and whose tectons was beating around the stadium.

The set, which is available for viewing on YouTubeAlso, you are driving, a person in the garden and another track of Drake Diss, Euphoria.

Unlike most Super Bowl artists, Lamar is not a very engine, but he had a charismatic swing while walking with his dancers; And a smart production gave the show an inertia – especially nervous, angular songs like Peekaboo.

SZA also gave an elevator, with flexible vocals and incredibly flexible choreography that helped to soften Lamar’s instincts.

Not like us was the undisputed culmination, but Lamar won the tour of the bouncing anthem on the west coast where he boasted, “”Yes, someone has to do it“.

He joined the stage by the producer of the mustard, who was squeezing football while playing the most terrible jeans in the world – before Lamar directs an imaginary remote control in the camera and endoned “game over”.

For fans, this was a powerful performance full of Easter eggs – including a fragment of unprecedented songs.

The careless viewers may have agreed more with Samuel L Jackson’s request for Lamar to keep it lightly; Especially since some of the more tightly written texts were made incomprehensible by the cavern echo of the stadium.

And it was noticeable that Lamar missed playing his civil rights anthem well after a year in which NFL chose to remove the phrase “near racism” from the end zone of the football field.

The phrase was present in the 2020 Super Bowl, against the backdrop of the Black Lives Matter protests – for which it has become well to the unofficial soundtrack.

Many expected Lamar to make a more statement, especially with the presence of President Donald Trump, but the performance of the star remained decisively undoubtedly – unless, of course, it was Drake.

Nevertheless, Lamar’s show was elegant and simplistic – as many fans expected, after Reserve song audio expired Thursday.

The only interruption came to the climax of the 13-minute set when a protester climbed to Lamar’s black Buick GNX black car and unfolded a combined Palestinian and Sudanese flag before being handled by security officers.

NFL later said in a statement that the protester was part of the 400-member cast who participated in the show.

The career covering 11 songs in 13 minutes. Here’s what Kendrick played.

1. Bodies
2. Carat
3. Humble
4. DNA
5. Euphoria
6. Garden
7. Peekuboo
8. Luther (with SZA)
9. All stars (with SZA)
10. Not like us
11. Turn off TV

Before the show, there were rumors that Taylor Swift could descend from his VIP apartment to join Lamar on stage.

The pair of the duo of Remix of her single bad blood in 2015 – and fans hoped they could perform it live for the first time in Super Bowl.

In the end, Swift only decided to watch the show, along with other celebrity present, including Paul McCartney, Stormy, Lady Gaga, Jay-Z, Ice Spice, Doechi, Paul Rud, Bradley Cooper and Meni Harlow.

Maybe it was for the best: some reports suggest that Swift was staduted at the stadium, where almost 80% of the fans supported the Eagles of Philadelphia, not by the team of her boyfriend Travis Kels.

Before the launch, Lady Gaga made a surprise performance on Bourbon Street, in the middle of the historic French neighborhood of New Orleans.

The star, who played her own show at the 2017 Super Bowl halftime, played a touching show of his song, holding my hand in honor of the victims of the New Year’s terrorist attack, which took the lives of 14 people in the city.

Gaga was surrounded by the first responding as she played a black baby grand piano in the middle of the road.

“Here, on Bourbon Street, always the heart and soul of New Orleans, this year began with a terrorist attack that tried to break his spirit,” said former American footballer Michael Fear during the segment before filming.

“But New Orleans’ resistance is combined with our country’s determination.”

The music performances before the game also included R&B artist Ledisi, who performed each voice and singing, often referred to as the Black National Anthem, annexed by 125 members of the Youth Choir.

The musician Troy Andrews, known as the Trombone Shorty, and the performer of Christian Lauren Daigle singer played America the Beautiful-giving a song that feels good in New Orleans.

And just before the game began, the New Orleans native John Batist sang the American national anthem, adding a few jazz flowering from his multicolored piano.