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Kendrick Lamar Super Bowl 2025 Halftime Performance. #448 Part 1

Feb 19, 20257 minEp. 448
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We're breaking down Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl 2025 halftime performance featuring surprise appearances by SZA and Serena Williams. Let’s just say it gave us a lot to talk about! Nii’s giving it a B+, but overall, we both enjoyed the show and its theme. A lot of people thought Kendrick wouldn’t perform "Not Like Us," but he proved everyone wrong. And then there’s Bomani Jones, who thought Beyoncé would’ve been the better pick for the Super Bowl.


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Transcript

Speaker 1

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Welcome to another episode of Docs Outside the Box .

Speaker 2

I'm your host , dr Nii , joined by my co-host , dr Rene Short , and sweet and to the point .

Speaker 1

Yo , hey guys , man we are . I had y'all , I had y'all waiting . I'm filming on location right now . I'm in working . I worked last night , I'm off for 10 hours and then I work again tonight . So it didn't make sense for me to drive all the way back home an hour and a half and just to turn around and y'all know it .

Basically , we here , we giving to people what they want , and you got the kids to school . So this is the perfect time to record .

Speaker 2

Yeah , yeah , yeah , let's do this .

Speaker 1

So , listen , we're going to talk about today . We're going to talk about the Affordable Care Act , how it affects us as locums , and then we're going to jump into this UnitedHealthcare issue fiasco with that breast surgeon and what's been going on with social media . So anything you want to say before we jump into it .

Speaker 2

No , I gave you guys a little pause there to think about what I was going to do , Just kind of like you know , people were anticipating whether or not Kendrick Lamar was going to play or perform . They're not like us and he did , but yeah we talked about it on the live .

Speaker 1

But there are some people who there's a bunch of people who are not listening or people who are listening right now , who didn't see it alive . But we covered that and I thought that he wasn't going to talk about it . I thought he was just going to move on for a couple of reasons . There's an interview where he's interviewing somebody .

It's just like pre-Grammy , pre-super Bowl type , you know , promo talk and stuff . But he basically says , like I'm in the now I really want to focus on you know what's going on with my new album and so forth . So I was like , oh , he's definitely not going to be doing that album . He's not going to be doing you know .

Speaker 2

Now the lawsuit is ongoing , so isn't the lawsuit now ?

Speaker 1

Yeah , I guess so , but he did it , yep , just like I predicted , the talk or , excuse me , the broadcast , was polarizing , to say the least . We should have taken bets on that . That's what we should have taken bets on People taking bets on the Super Bowl . The real bets was Kendrick Lamar's performance , yeah , so .

Speaker 2

I would say his performance was like a B+ . You went from an A to a B+ . You said an A on the live .

Speaker 1

Yeah , I'm thinking about it now . It's like a B+ , because I went back and looked back at some of his other performances , like at the Grammys and so forth , I was like , oh , he could have done way better . But it looks like he's in a different mindset , like now .

He's just like look , I just want to , I'm just putting out what I want to put out and that's it . I do have to say that I heard commentary from Bomani Jones and he talked about the performance and he did say something that was really interesting . He said that Beyonce would have been better for the Super Bowl .

Kendrick Lamar would have been better for that halftime show that Beyonce did back in Christmas . Basically , what he's saying is that her performance was very grandiose , very pleasing , everybody would be happy for it , happy with it . It should have been for the Super Bowl , his would be more for a regular season game and so forth .

But either way , whatever happened happened , I enjoyed the show . I know a lot of people didn't enjoy and didn't enjoy the show .

Speaker 2

I thoroughly liked it . I was thoroughly entertained and um what did you like more than ? Entertained well , one you know .

I love the fact that he he performed the song he wanted to perform I think there's something , something you know , to be said about , you know , just doing what you want to do , you know , and not necessarily being stifled or silenced by anyone .

You know , I think that there's a level of risk to that , you know , and I think he was willing to take that risk and I like the theme , just the whole . You know , America then and America now kind of theme , you know , we talked about , like with Samuel L Jackson and I kind of went back and watched some things also .

But I've watched people take people's takes on it and there was so much packed in that performance that you had to go back to get all the messages . You know , you really had to go back to get all the messages and just to see , you know , other people's interpretations of things .

My own interpretation I just thought it was very , you know , I thought it was very raw and very real and I , for me , I like that . I like people who just tell it like it is , you know , and are basically unapologetic . Just this is my , these are my thoughts . Everybody's not going to like it , but I'm going to tell like it is the way that I see it .

And if you don't like it , but I'm going to tell like it is , the way that I see it .

Speaker 1

And if you don't like it , well , maybe you're part of the problem . Yeah , I think we should just leave it at that . I felt the same way too . It's really hard for a rapper to carry an entire Super Bowl show . It hasn't been done before . Any rapper who's done it . Dr Dre did it with Snoop Dogg , did it with Eminem , did it with 50 Cent .

Dre did it with snoop dogg , did it with eminem , did it with 50 cent , did it with um mary j blige . So it's never really been done by himself . So that's . That was pretty interesting to do it without any feature except for scissors , scissors . So give him mad props for doing I enjoyed it .

If you didn't understand it , it wasn't for you , I'll just leave it to you . Like that , um and it's not . Don't take it the wrong way , but it's just just one of those . That's how he's always been , which is I'm gonna create something for my audience , and my audience knows who they are , and I think the audience kind of will figure out who they are .

If you're a fan of him , you know what he's talking about . If you're not a fan of him , you don't know what he's talking about . You don't know's just , he's the Bob Dylan of hip hop , basically , and rap , you know , and he's just doing his own thing .

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