After waiting for this moment to come, Kendrick Lamar has given everything he has to offer at this year’s Superbowl Halftime show. Since the announcement of Lamar as the Halftime show performer, tension has built up, leaving people wondering if his concert would be able to compete with past performances.
Introduced by Uncle Sam, played by actor, Samuel Jackson, Kendrick Lamar is found kneeling on top of a car hood, representing his new album, “GNX.” Lamar lights up the stage, first performing a snippet of an unreleased song. This transitions into his songs “squabble up,” “HUMBLE,” “DNA,” “euphoria,” “man at the garden,” and “peekaboo.”
Moving on, he brings out who many were waiting for, SZA. “I wanted to be on par with that [Kendrick Lamar] energy and just give as much as I can,” SZA said in her latest interview with Apple Music. Together, they perform “luther,” and their hit song, “All The Stars,” from the movie, “Black Panther.”
“When Kendrick Lamar and SZA performed All the Stars, I was very excited and happy. It’s one of my favorite songs, I was hoping they would perform it,” senior Aubree Gunn said. Anticipated all throughout Steinbrenner and social media, people were looking forward to hearing this song live.
Teasing Kendrick Lamar’s most popular song, “Not Like Us,” he plays the first few notes throughout the beginning of the show, getting the crowd excited. “I wanna perform their favorite song, but you know they love to sue,” Lamar said, referencing the drama between him and Drake, as Drake threatened to sue Lamar if he played the song.
He made the crowd go wild when the “Not Like Us” track started playing as his performance was coming to an end. Lamar was clearly directing the song towards the camera as if he were talking to Drake. He also brought out Mustard, a producer of some of his music, to perform “tv off,” as his concluding song of the halftime show, using it as play-on-words to signify that the Halftime show is over.
With people tuning in from all over the country just to watch Kendrick Lamar, the Superbowl LIX Halftime show will go down in history as the most-watched ever with 133.5 million viewers.
