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Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl half-time show review – game over for Drake
The Pulitzer prize-winning rapper chose artistry over more obvious showmanship in an unusual set yet still delivered the final blow to his diss track nemesis
The Super Bowl half-time show is Plato’s perfect form of pomp and ceremony, a corporate-sponsored, highly choreographed musical performance used to entice people who don’t follow the NFL into watching TV in order to secure even higher ad fees from Doritos and Dunkin’ Donuts. It felt at times more like a Lincoln Center play than a half-time show, with dense layered flows and an interplay of dance, Jackson’s spoken-word moments and Lamar album tracks that didn’t always combine to make an obvious point. He did tone down some of the harshest blow – self-censoring the word “paedophile”, likely at both his lawyers’ and censors’ request – but still screeched the devastating lyric “Tryna strike a chord and it’s probably A minor”, flanked by huge flags that showed small children pointing to a lower-case A.
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