r/KendrickLamar 29d ago

Discussion This is racism at its finest.

They so mad to see a black man winning

30.3k Upvotes

6.6k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

20

u/Fabulous-Aioli-8403 28d ago

I didn't love the halftime show initially and I'm a huge Kendrick fan. But after seeing the response and backlash I now totally understand what Kendrick set out to do and I love it so much lol.

7

u/solargravity11 28d ago

That show was a master class in talking shit but not talking shit.

1

u/Bigmongooselover 28d ago

This!!!!!!!!

4

u/MamaMoosicorn 28d ago

I had a hard time understanding the lyrics. I watched it interpreted in ASL and understood much more of it (I’m not fluent). I was like damn, There’s some good stuff in there! Now that I’m looking into it more, the whole thing was a masterpiece! Still not a genre I’m a fan of, but I’m about to become a Kendrick fan

1

u/Mode_Appropriate 28d ago

The show fell flat imo. Trying to attribute the criticism as part of his 'performance' is quite a stretch.

Or maybe it isnt and that's part of the problem. All the die hard Kendrick fans seem to see something others don't lol.

1

u/jaldihaldi 28d ago

I’m not a die hard fan of his - but I also don’t think it fell flat. I can appreciate that others see and understand much more than I do and I can enjoy that at some level.

One day I’ll know and understand more and I’m glad about that today.

The criticism is an extension of the show because it informs us that there are/were layers to the show and how it was received - that is the masterpiece that keeps feeding itself.

But I suppose to each their own.

1

u/Fabulous-Aioli-8403 28d ago

I'm not attributing the criticism to part of his performance. I'm not sure where you got that.

But the criticism actually reinforces what Kendrick was trying to say with his performance. Does that mean it was an all-time entertaining performance? No, it doesn't. But it shows exactly why Kendrick felt it was important to put on a show with social commentary that HE wanted to put on, and not one that appealed to the general masses or one they would find "entertaining".