Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime performance is growing in viewership hours after the big game, gaining more than 11 million views since it aired Sunday night.
Lamar, who has won a Pulitzer Prize, is known for his storytelling, and his performance at the Super Dome sought to tell a story of Black Americans and their place within U.S. history.
While fans gathered in New Orleans rapped along to hits including “Humble” and the Grammy-winning diss track “Not Like Us,” Lamar’s all-Black performance was filled with political references and Black history.
- Samuel L. Jackson as Uncle Sam.
- The Revolution is being Televised
- Mass incarceration and the racial disparities of those behind bars
- One American Flag but a divided nation
- 40 acres of land and a mule, a promise never fulfilled
- Serena Williams crip walking
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