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I am 56, and I will be 57 in a few weeks. I love watching the 50+ crowd go crazy about the halftime show.

WE ARE NOT THE TARGET DEMOGRAPHIC!  

That being said, my son is a Kendrick Lamar fan.  His filling me in on the Drake stuff and a few other songs made it better for me.

There isn't an artist who could be cross-generational enough for everyone and that is OK.
Yeah halftime show criticisms have started to feel a bit weird to me in recent years. The same people who will dog on Kendrick will turn around and act like Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen were universally beloved. Huge portions of America are always going to dislike one performer over another. I can understand not liking Kendrick's music - personal preference - but I draw the line at people being just intentionally ignorant for the sake of making a hollow and unoriginal statement.

Personally, I loved the show. Been a Kendrick fan ever since his maad city album. The performance had a lot of strong messaging and subtle callouts, too, for those willing to look for it. Plus, Kendrick's hatred for Drake has hit unimaginably entertaining levels. I wish I hated something so much that it motivated me to five Grammy's and one of the most hyped SB halftime shows in modern history. Drake loves the SB and he chose instead to fly halfway around the world to escape it lmao.

 
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kk..did a search and found a lot of people who thought the halftime show was....ummm....not sure i can repeat what they were saying outside of the shed.
You will have to enlighten me.  Good or bad?

On my Facebook, the older people hated it.  Younger people good

 
I am 56, and I will be 57 in a few weeks. I love watching the 50+ crowd go crazy about the halftime show.

WE ARE NOT THE TARGET DEMOGRAPHIC!  

That being said, my son is a Kendrick Lamar fan.  His filling me in on the Drake stuff and a few other songs made it better for me.

There isn't an artist who could be cross-generational enough for everyone and that is OK.


Someone had to explain to me why the :05 cameo of Serena Williams dancing was actually HUGE!* (woman who explained it is a 56 year old white woman who loves Kendrick, fwiw) 

Never been a hip hop aficionado myself, could barely hear the lyrics other than a mysterious John Stockton namecheck, but it was well-choreographed spectacle that certainly held my attention. 

The closest the Super Bowl Halftime came to hitting the sweet spot was Prince playing Purple Rain in a Florida downpour. 

* apparently Serena used to date Drake, and the dance was The Crip Walk, which is in some way meaningful, too

 
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* apparently Serena used to date Drake, and the dance was The Crip Walk, which is in some way meaningful, too
Serena and the dance were mostly just to s#!t on Drake as much as possible. The biggest reason to have her was because her and Drake dated (or were at least rumored to have been) and Drake name-dropped her in a song and also dissed her husband by calling him a 'groupie' at one point.

The Crip Walk element is mostly because it's an iconic cultural dance, but also has ties into celebrating the aftermath of a hit (metaphorical in this sense). Serena also got criticized for crip walking at the Olympics once. Her and Kendrick are also both from Compton.

That whole 5-sec sequence of her crip walking is kind of a microcosm of why so many people are hype about the performance last night because it was littered with various metaphors, innuendos, and messages, something Kendrick is very good at. I'm stopping short of calling it the 'best ever' though or making his performance into some massive political statement that should fundamentally change me (like some people are). He's still a multi-million dollar rapper performing at the Super Bowl, and he didn't perform some of his bigger hits, so there is a bit of break pumpage that needs to happen from some people IMO even though I really enjoyed it all.

 
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I'm hesitant to call it political moment, given that two multi-millionaire entertainers are waging a petty personal beef at a time when we're supposed to be looking at cures for needless divisiveness. 

That's a ton of energy spent on Drake, a guy I honestly don't give a s#!t about. 

But if we are a country that appreciates an epic flex --- and I believe we are --- that certainly was one. 

Or.....and hear me out!......Kendrick Lamar is American. Drake is Canadian. The halftime show was coordinated by the Trump administration as a run up to the broader War on Canada. 

 
My son loved it.  He said he likes the poet's side for him.  

The guy has won a Nobel prize for poetry, I think?  

Anyway, knowing the background made it more enjoyable.  

 
Yeah I think it’s really all about appreciating just a really solid a$$ whooping of another person.

Snoop and Tom Brady: say no to hate

Kendrick: actually

 
imo, the Drake feud was a key part, but not the thematic center of the entire performance. There was a lot to unpack in there wholly separate from Drake me thinks.

 
I'm hesitant to call it political moment, given that two multi-millionaire entertainers are waging a petty personal beef at a time when we're supposed to be looking at cures for needless divisiveness. 

That's a ton of energy spent on Drake, a guy I honestly don't give a s#!t about. 

But if we are a country that appreciates an epic flex --- and I believe we are --- that certainly was one. 

Or.....and hear me out!......Kendrick Lamar is American. Drake is Canadian. The halftime show was coordinated by the Trump administration as a run up to the broader War on Canada. 
The question is whether it is needless divisiveness or standing up to something you believe to be wrong. That difference can absolutely change your view on what this message meant on a larger scale. I think both can be true but I lean more towards pushing back against something you know to be bad, speaking up when you have the platform to do so.

 
I'm hesitant to call it political moment, given that two multi-millionaire entertainers are waging a petty personal beef at a time when we're supposed to be looking at cures for needless divisiveness. 

That's a ton of energy spent on Drake, a guy I honestly don't give a s#!t about. 

But if we are a country that appreciates an epic flex --- and I believe we are --- that certainly was one. 

Or.....and hear me out!......Kendrick Lamar is American. Drake is Canadian. The halftime show was coordinated by the Trump administration as a run up to the broader War on Canada. 
Was more than just a dis track. The dis was actually part of the political statement. Tons of political symbolism in this performance. 

this is one persons take from another board. Needless to say a lot going on. 
 

The biggest protest in Super Bowl history happened on the Stage tonight and folk screaming it's boring or trash because it went over their head! This what you didn't see.
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Then again the message is Blacks have always been here to entertain THEY (Who are not like us) so they aren't bored.
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They rather have Wayne up there high, who has backed Drake (The system) to push the agenda.
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The messages Kendrick just sent to America could not use Wayne.

It even started with the American Flag being built out of black people as America being built on the backs of black people. 
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Before I mention how being cool in our culture has always been stolen, no matter how many people try to steal it, they not like us. 
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WAS NOT ABOUT WHITE PEOPLE.. IT WAS ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO CONTROL THE MEDIA AND LABELS WHO CREATE DIVIDE. OK HERE GOES!
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It started with Dead Pres intro beat and flow "Bigger than Hiphop" 
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First song: WHEN I HEAR MUSIC, IT MAKES ME DANCE (SQUABBLE UP). Puppet Strings of music making us dance vs pay attention.
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Uncle (Sam)uel L Jackson started it off with the rules of the game of historical White America America. 
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Then Said when a bunch of blacks hanging out on the corner is too deep for the culture. Somebody gotta die. Deduct a life and create an environment to cancel each other out
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The Squid games start which symbolizes the rich killing the poor for entertainment. Hmm. Imagine rappers beefing and killing and the media benefitting from their deaths.
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The system allows Drake to push the Sexxxy Redd to taint the culture and empowers him
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The dancers in Red White & Blue representing the American flag. Been Dancing to the drums of the system. And we want entertainment and to be able to dance than be educated.
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The main Stage was a Playstation. Squid Game card 🔻🟥🔴️ and the system is a game designed to keep us dancing and imprisoned which is why it was in a prison yard.
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Protecting black women like Serena Williams after the disrespect from Drake
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Notice he brought out SZA as a black woman and she did not have to be half naked on display for the world letting her voice shine?
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And once again reminding the system of Drake and America "They (Plants) are Not Like Us" and can't infiltrate the culture.
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Game Over.. TV OFF. Been under their control. Revolution.
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Drake Been used to further sour the system and be a plant for the same system Malcolm X warned about from the music execs who own media and use it to divide us.
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This is bigger than rap! And women who feel disrespected should see it.

People who are tired of being divided should see it. Notice the American flag divided?
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But most of all, those who didn't have a lens to see it just shows the system has worked and you're the type it's been working on.
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Dude is the most creative genius in hiphop history.
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But go off. Maybe we can see more well respected entrepreeurs and family men leading for once.
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Yep exactly - the Drake piece is critical to the overall narrative, but the general themes and messaging spoke to a much larger discussion. Like his line about "40 acres and a mule," the American flag symbolism, what he was doing with Samuel L. Jackson and Uncle Sam, the Squid Game reference, prison yard references, etc.

I'm struggling to think of a good analogy for it all but the Drake portions of the performance are getting the most attention because it's a rap feud and that's sort of the sexy part of it all that sells the interest and hype. The song won a Grammy, Kendrick won five Grammy's, people were hyping up and wondering if "he would dare to play the song" because of the legal threats and just the audacity of doing something like that in front of a massive global audience. But even woven into his dislike of Drake is a bigger message, Drake's just kind of the vessel for carrying it in that particular song.

 
Was more than just a dis track. The dis was actually part of the political statement. Tons of political symbolism in this performance. 


No doubt. But Drake was held off for the climax, and today everyone is talking about the ultimate Drake dis, not the systemic exploitation of Black people, which technically includes Drake himself.  

 
i posted a pic in the shed from 1 of our illustrious congresswomens comments about it
Wow from 2006 to 2010-ish ..I loved going to the shed all of the time to read funny stuff.  I haven't been since 2019 or so, and maybe a few times since 2014, just to see who all got slaughtered and banned from the days the HB site was changing message board etiquacy/etiquette for real.  I may need to start revisiting.  Was a great place to laugh, joke, be rude or vent and leave it there - even though it's nothing personal (but was ok to make it personal).  chuckleshuffle   

 
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