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Kendrick Lamar's Halftime Show Went Over Some Heads - But That's the Point

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This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Bowling Green chapter. Last Sunday, rapper Kendrick Lamar took the stage for the Super Bowl halftime show and gave a 13-minute performance that was so important for our time, especially during Black History Month. Kendrick Lamar is a 37-year-old rapper from Compton, California. Lamar is well known in the music world for his 22 Grammy wins and for winning a Pulitzer Prize for musi…
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Political polarization leads Kendrick Lamar halftime critiques

Shortly after sweeping the Grammys with the diss track “Not Like Us,” Kendrick Lamar took the stage at the Caesar’s Superdome in New Orleans for the most-viewed Super Bowl Halftime Show in history. This wasn’t Lamar’s first time performing at the Super Bowl— he appeared alongside Dr. Dre, Mary J. Blige, Snoop Dogg, and Eminem during the 2022 Super Bowl, which marked the first halftime show to focus entirely on hip-hop. With guests including SZA,…

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COLUMN: Breaking down Kendricks performance

Even a week after the Super Bowl, all I’ve been hearing is, “That halftime show was garbage,” “DEI?”  and “That’s what y’all call music?”   OK, bird brain.    Regardless of the intended message Kendrick Lamar was trying to show us, the actual music was really good. You don’t have to be a fan of Lamar’s music to know that one.    Lamar is a master storyteller who uses his music to paint vivid pictures of the world around us.  He got the opportuni…

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The Revolution Televised: What You Missed in Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Halftime Show Performance

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Bowling Green chapter. “Boring.” “I didn’t get it.” “I can’t understand a word he’s saying.” These were all common reactions to Kendrick Lamar’s Halftime Show Performance at the 2025 Super Bowl, and no doubt ignorant ones. Even I, on my first watch, found myself hesitant to comment on the show; I knew there was a message here, one that not everyone was going to pick up on. Maybe …

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Her Campus broke the news in on Sunday, February 16, 2025.
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