Good god, on every social media account right now the DEEPER MEANING of Kendrick Lamar's Halftime show is being broken down by posts, youtube clips, over and over and over.

The guy is obviously talented to have such a big fanbase and a great rapper, but this wreaks of desperation to make a sh#tty halftime show seem...not sh#tty

Playstation controller, red, white and blue split, Uncle Sam, Williams sister dancing, got it the first time and it sucked.

if it takes that much explanation to interpret a song and dance number, that tells me that he did a shitty job sending a "message"

I think it's mostly white people looking for a message that probably wasn't there to begin with.

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It's just a redo of Donald Glover's "This Is America." If you saw that, you saw this.

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"This is America" hit way harder.

I really have no idea what Kendrick Lamar's intentions were. I just know he hates Drake and that seems more important to him than anything else. Throw a little black Uncle Sam in there to get them RACISTS! howling and let me go off on Drizzy cuz he Not Like Us.

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General Jim wears Fort Bragg down... to get it!

FWIW my algorithms are still giving me fifty minute videos about interwar heavy cruisers, StarCraft 2 highlights, clips from Moneyball and cooking videos. No woke Kendrick breakdowns sadly, I’d probably click if I got em.

A good friend of mine's father was on the Indianapolis when it sank. That's the kind of thing that affects and influences a family for generations. I think the survivor list is down to the last man.

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The point, because writers for the Guardian named like "Connor Feibelman" told me so, is that America, or rather the vast American cultural-industrial complex, steals, exploits, and commercializes black culture but then doesn't allow black people to express their own culture because it frightens them to come in contact with blackness that has not been mediated by said complex. This was all, of course, presented by Apple and Pepsi, so I'm not sure exactly who got away with what.

I was under the impression that Gil Scott-Heron's "the revolution will not be televised" meant that any genuine subversion could not be co-opted and commodified by the media powers that be, so for him to say "the revolution will be televised" seemed like not just missing the point but actively shitting on it. It's like saying "there is balm in Gilead, and for a limited time we're passing the savings on to you." Come to think of it, that spot probably ran on channel 38 in the late '80s.

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To be fair nothing lives up to the drama when icon/king/slay Drachinifel probably (almost certainly) figured out why the HMS Hood exploded and then got copied by a bunch of imitators like Oceanliner Designs who presented his argument as their own.

Not that I don’t cherish the background noise of some British dude born about a hundred and twenty years too late droning on about the service history of the Leon Gambetta class of light cruisers who blockaded the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1917.

At this point the Super Bowl is pretty much the only American holiday that is universally celebrated. Although I'm not sure if Tren de Aragua. American Hamas, and the male Chinese nationals of fighting age that were welcomed in by Joe Biden and Company are paying attention. I think we can all agree that Drake sucks though.

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General Jim wears Fort Bragg down... to get it!

I've been getting Mad Men clips, Kelsey Cook crowd work, and those terrible couples-comedy videos.

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I absolutely loved this song when I was a kid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Ufc2hI4FM

It's kind of strange since I grew up in the Vietnam era, but when we played Army, we were always in WWII.

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General Jim wears Fort Bragg down... to get it!

You might enjoy Public Service Broadcasting
https://youtu.be/5JwoMf2f9FQ?si=aX8sskQ1DTjhrkjH
Not just that, but they have songs about the Supermarine Spitfire, White Star Line, Moon Landing, Lockheed Electra. It’s funny in a way. CH might like it too. It’s funny, quaint, historic and nostalgic.

Ah, the "You don't get it, [already wildly famous and revered black guy] is actually. a. genius...." number. Which if I'm not mistaken has as a distant ancestor the very casual racism of lowered expectations.

He's good enough to have some championship athlete who is married with kids, pining for him on national tv a decade after their relationship

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

My dad was big on those Horton type songs. Remember them well.

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Elections have consequences.

I’ve got Amala Ekpunobi’s deep dive queued and I could watch her talk about a brick wall for hours.

But would you listen to her reading brick’s posts for hours?

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Hawaii (fuck) You

I talked to AI Brick for hours, I have no standards.

What happened to NFL promoting "Choose Love " as new logo, yet all I got out of the halftime show was how much hate KL has for Drake. I guess Lamar didnt get the memo or did the Crib Walker

I always looked forward to the movie “Sink the Bismarck” on Family Classics back in the 70s.

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“How do you get to be president and you’re stupid?” Donald J Trump - 4/10/25
When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus. - Turkish Proverb

I'm not sure if they had an actual relationship or if Drake just stalked her via social media.

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General Jim wears Fort Bragg down... to get it!

Da balacks loved it. That's all that matters.

the only people i see talking about this on social media is white women in their 30s. and theyre scolding all the white men who apparently hated it because racism. the only posts ive seen about not liking it are from people who just didnt enjoy it. the outcry of racism surely seems forced and manufactured.

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'Your AT&T Universal Card has arrived'? Oh God, Kick-fucking-ass, I got a Master Card! I don't believe it, man. Life is kinda cool sometimes.

It was simultaneously worse than what a lot of people think it was and better than what a lot of people think it was.

It was mostly average outside of just constantly attacking Drake. If the mic had worked better in the first half then maybe it would have been overall good.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

I think it’s a healthy sign that these two settled their issues with competing poems rather than violence.

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I didnt get it at all until I synched up the start of the halftime show with the third roar of the MGM lion in the Wizard of Oz and then ...mind fucking blown .

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

excellent

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'Your AT&T Universal Card has arrived'? Oh God, Kick-fucking-ass, I got a Master Card! I don't believe it, man. Life is kinda cool sometimes.

Let's all play along with the assumption that KL had all this deeper meaning and symbolism planned.....ok, fine. I get it.

I want no part of it while I'm drinking beer and trying to enjoy the escapism and entertainment of (arguably) the US's premier sporting event of the year.

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She's very cute.

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General Jim wears Fort Bragg down... to get it!