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From Frenchmen Street to St. Charles, the rumblings about what Lamar’s performance would bring ranged from [comparisons to Prince’s halftime show](https://andscape.com/features/how-kendrick-lamar-can-attain-super-bowl-halftime-show-immortality/) in 2007 to speculation that he would do something even more dastardly to Drake than he’s done so far. It seemed like an impossible bar to leapfrog. But over the course of 15 minutes, Kendrick Lamar gave us what we needed. He was defiant, proud, vindictive, playful and celebratory. He was pro-Black and subversive, trolling and joyful, and through all the expectations and fighting and nastiness, he was ultimately victorious. Lamar was aspirational, inviting us along with him.
The Subversive Genius of Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Halftime Performance
David Dennis Jr.
This symbolic feature of rituals also often furnishes us with awe, which broadens our perspective in ways that minimize how preoccupied we are with our concerns.
here in the dark, the patterns appeared to be resting—maybe even plotting something.
Diary of a Void
Emi Yagi, David Boyd, and Lucy North
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