Kendrick Lamar blasts through a set of largely new material and continues his assault against Drake in an explosive half-time show.
Kendrick Lamar 's Super Bowl half-time show featured Samuel L Jackson, Serena Williams, SZA, and a stark display of his genius Kendrick Lamar 's Super Bowl half-time show featured Samuel L Jackson, Serena Williams, SZA, and a stark display of his genius Kendrick Lamar 's Super Bowl half-time show arrives one week after the rapper won five Grammys for Drake diss track Not Like Us.
After Jackson's introduction, Lamar did what he does best: spat a deft, rapid-fire string of lines from his recent track, 'Bodies'.He did so in front of a Buick Grand National GNX, the same make of vehicle he was driven home from the hospital in as a baby, and the namesake of his latest album, hinting at the set list to come.
After the intro, he gave us 'Squabble Up', one of the livelier singles from GNX, which he played flanked by a crew of dancers who, at one stage, formed into an American flag.Two songs from acclaimed 2017 album DAMN. followed — Hottest 100 winner 'HUMBLE.' and the arresting 'DNA.' — before the feud between Kendrick and Drake inevitably came to the fore thanks to a taste of last year's 'Euphoria', which Kendrick released early in the infamous battle.
Instead, he launched into 'Luther' and 'All The Lights', the two songs featuring SZA, who was in typically dazzling form. Whether that means Kendrick is putting a full stop on the Drake beef, or just making a cute football pun for no reason, we'll need to wait and see.Super Bowl half-time shows are renowned for surprise collaborations, but Kendrick didn't dig around in the Rolodex too much for this year's show.Samuel L. Jackson was undoubtedly the biggest surprise, his appearance was beautifully woven into the set to provide a through line.
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