This past Sunday, beloved artist Kendrick Lamar performed for the Super Bowl halftime show alongside SZA.
The Super Bowl is regarded as one of the most admired and highly publicized events throughout the year, always drawing a large audience.
This year, the Kansas City Chiefs were facing the Philadelphia Eagles. This was an especially important game for the Chiefs who were looking to make history in an attempt to become the first NFL team to three-peat in the Super Bowl era.
While there are many people that watch the Super Bowl due to their love for football, others mostly cared about the Halftime Show that featured Lamar.
Lamar introduced his latest album “GNX” in late November and was highly acclaimed. This album was a pinnacle of Lamar’s music career, generating his incredible ability to display various elements into his music. This album came as a surprise to many around me, and they were thoroughly in awe of it.
Lamar’s latest album and his performance in the Super Bowl halftime show coincided with each quite well as he was able to implement a couple songs from the album into the performance.
“Squabble Up,” “Luther” and “TV Off” were a few of the songs that Lamar performed for the show that were a part of the new album.
Along with displaying his new album, Lamar performed quite a few fan favorites such as “Not Like Us,” “Humble.” and “Euphoria.”
To the surprise of many, SZA stood out and joined Lamar with the songs “Luther” and “All the Stars.”
Other guests made appearances such as former tennis player Serena Williams and Samuel L. Jackson as a faux Uncle Sam.
Moments after performing the infamous “A Minor” line, Lamar only gives Drake a moment to breathe before showing his ex-girlfriend Serena Williams doing the crip walk in the middle of the “X” on stage.
Copying his album cover, Lamar began the performance on the hood of a GNX with his background dancers filing out of the car.
The energetic backup dancers were donned in red, white and blue as a nod to the American flag, potentially making a commentary on the state of our country per Lamar’s typical activist ways.
The overall performance was nothing over the top, besides throwing a little bit of shade to his rival Drake in his song “Not like Us” and by featuring another one of Drake’s rivals in Williams.
Lamar’s performance throughout the halftime show was nothing short of brilliant, giving the audience an incredible halftime show that will be remembered for years to come.
