I wrote about the biggest rap performance of all time, Kendrick’s positioning of anti-Drake-ness as part of a larger pro-Blackness and justice for Serena Williams
https://andscape.com/features/genius-of-kendrick-lamars-super-bowl-halftime-performance/
https://andscape.com/features/genius-of-kendrick-lamars-super-bowl-halftime-performance/
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While I'm here: has anyone seen a post of the performance with audio description for blind folks? my bff needs it.
https://www.grammy.com/videos/kendrick-lamar-2016-grammys-performance-blacker-the-berry-alright
https://bsky.app/profile/tammigaw.bsky.social/post/3lht2c5fqsk2b
I'm in Ireland FFS, only heard a few KL songs and even I got it!!!
The artistry and symbolism was off the charts and I gave him a standing ovation.
My son is delighted that I am now a Kendrick Lamar fan too!! 🙌✊💃
you’re such a great writer.
well done 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
He "poured into us"
100%
Well done, sir. Well done.
Thank you for not being a piece of shit. 😘
"“Drake is pop to me, in the sense like, if I was in Target in Houston and I heard a Drake song... it feels like a lot of his music is compatible with shopping."
Great piece!
I feel like there's parallels between this culmination of the Kendrick-Drake feud and the Rumble in the Jungle. Could be an interesting essay.
The American flag held up on the backs of black men took my breath away. And I bet/hope “Uncle” Samuel L Jackson hit a nerve!
As a 60+ white woman, I felt resistance and inspiration. Let’s go! Thank you for enlightening me to the rest of the story! 💙
On the backs of black men this flag exists.
Powerful intelligent resistance 🙌✊
They picked the right time but the wrong guy, the revolution was just televised.
I'm not sure they were quick enough to get it though 😂
More of this America!!!
That America is built on the backs of Black people, what a powerful way to show that.
Thank you for this. Truly stellar
https://youtu.be/H58vbez_m4E
Two generational sex creeps. One was in attendance and left immediately after Kendrick, and the other intentionally planned a tour in Australia to avoid the Grammys and Super Bowl.
The average American super bowl viewer doesn't know much of anything about the allegations against Drake, and if they did, they would not connect them to Trump, whose predilection for young women and girls is more well-known but still a tertiary piece of knowledge at best
My class and I watched it yesterday and broke the whole thing down and seldom have they been so locked in to the intent of an artist. When he speaks people listen.