Kendrick Lamar’s Drake-centric Super Bowl Halftime Show: Instant Postgame Analysis!

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The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

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🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Breaking down the Super Bowl halftime performance, including the surprise cameos and tactical deployment of "Not Like Us," in an emergency podcast immediately after the show.Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

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0:00.0	Salutation.
0:09.4	It's your uncle, Sam.
0:12.0	And this is the great American game.
0:17.7	Welcome to the New York Times podcast, your flu game of music news and criticism.
0:21.7	I'm John Caramonica, a critic at the New York Times.
0:24.2	I'm Joe Koskerelli. I'm a reporter at the New York Times.
0:26.9	We are live post-action Sunday night, 1030 post-Supert Bowl to talk about the Kendrick halftime show.
0:36.0	Joe, you were live blogging.
0:39.0	Oh, yeah.
0:39.7	The crucial minute-to-minute coverage on NYTimes.com.
0:44.9	My review of the halftime show should be up shortly, if not as we speak.
0:53.1	Kendrick Lamar headline, this is in a lot of ways,
0:57.7	this feels like the end of a narrative, right?
1:00.2	Like for the last six or eight months,
1:03.0	we've been living with Not Like Us and the Shadow of Not Like Us.
1:07.3	And here, in back-to-back weekends,
1:09.6	the Grammys last weekend and the Super Bowl today, we have
1:13.5	what feel like capstone achievements for hip-hop, what capstone achievements for rat beef,
1:19.9	capstone achievements certainly for Kedric Lamar, who has been rather gleefully dancing on Drake's
1:26.8	purported grave for the last few months.
1:30.1	Did you ever think, this is the real question, this is really what I opened up my piece with.
1:34.3	No. No. I never, this is, how was this even a subject of conversation? How was there, was he going to skip it? Was there any chance he was going to skip it?
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