r/MadeMeSmile • u/mcfw31 • Feb 10 '25

Wholesome Moments Kendrick Lamar and the whole Super Bowl stadium screaming “A Minor”

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u/AlohaReddit49 Feb 10 '25 edited Feb 10 '25

Serena has surprisingly been involved in this beef.

Even in this song, Not Like Us Kendrick mentions her by name. So it's not completely out of left field, unexpected yea but she is related.

ETA: Serena is also from Compton, the same as Kendrick Lamar.

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u/pitb0ss343 Feb 10 '25

Well and she apparently dated Drake which I didn’t know

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u/SwingNinja Feb 10 '25

And her husband is Alexis Ohanian. She's the reddit mom.

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u/Joe579GoFkUrselfMins Feb 10 '25

Yep, she is well acquainted with how certain subs can..."be". Best play? Don't

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '25 edited Feb 13 '25

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u/Chalmerss Feb 10 '25

What about the fact that her sister was killed by a Crip, shes basically dancing on her own sisters grave, but all yall gone say W

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u/jessytessytavi Feb 10 '25

she could be b-walking, not like we're watching her feet

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u/BaumSquad1978 Feb 10 '25

She is B walking

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u/jessytessytavi Feb 12 '25

yup, there's tons of videos that show she's really b-walking instead

it's feet // for b-walking and / for c-walking, literally making the shape with her steps

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u/Chalmerss Feb 10 '25

this has to be satire

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u/jessytessytavi Feb 10 '25

tarantino ain't filming this shit, dude

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u/PandaGa1 Feb 10 '25

If somebody murdered one of your family members can you honestly ever see yourself endorsing their dance move because it’s cool? I doubt it, but if you would then you need to see a psychiatrist.

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u/jessytessytavi Feb 10 '25

I'm sorry you don't understand there's different dance moves attributed to different sections, dude

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u/MyDogisaQT Feb 10 '25

You think she’s blood walking to a crip song known for videos of people crip walking to it? Stop. Just stop.

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u/PandaGa1 Feb 10 '25

She’s literally dressed in all blue…

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u/jessytessytavi Feb 12 '25

as an update for your offense:

there's tons of videos that show she's really b-walking instead

it's feet \// for b-walking and \/ for c-walking, literally making the shape with her steps

her sister is cool with her dancing on drizzy's grave

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u/PandaGa1 Feb 10 '25 edited Feb 10 '25

You’re absolutely right, it’s sickening that she’s quite literally endorsing the exact group of people that murdered her sister in cold blood. What a strange way to get clout.

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u/MyDogisaQT Feb 10 '25

It’s batshit insane.

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u/Encore_1 Feb 10 '25

Yeah, back in the day Drake and Common were beefin over her and even made diss songs. Only one I can remember is Common’s “Sweet”

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u/mastermusk Feb 10 '25

Its not surprising. Drake has been dissing Serena's husband who is BTW one the founders of Reddit for YEARS.. one of the lines goes: 'Serena your husband is still a groupie.' This is why Kendrick told Drake not to speak on Serena.

This is part of Drake's M.O. he's also been dissing ASAP Rocky for being Rihanna's baby daddy.

He also beefed with Common because Common dated Serena and he was beefing with Chris Brown at some point over Rihanna. He gets infatuated with these women who aren't interested in him and he starts beefs with their significant others.

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u/PandaGa1 Feb 10 '25

Sadly whether you like it or not disses are an integral part of rap. If you think this is the first time a music artist has made music / talked badly about their spouse then I don’t know what to tell you.

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u/mastermusk Feb 11 '25

Wtf are you talkinng about? Is Serena a rapper? Her husband is a tech entrepreneur and a venture capitalist who was one of the founders of Reddit. What does he have to do with rap? What sense does it make to diss people who aren't rappers and talk about their spouse?

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u/PandaGa1 Feb 11 '25

You’re right, I misread your comment completely. Everything you said was correct my bad. I thought you were referring to Drake dissing other rappers by attacking their spouses, but you were actually pointing out that he was attacking his former spouses partners.

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u/roguespectre67 Feb 10 '25

Well of course it's not out of left field, Serena plays tennis, not baseball.

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u/bcdrawdy Feb 10 '25

Kind of weird to be crip walking though considering her sister was murdered by a South Side Crip

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u/Moist-Application310 Feb 11 '25

Yeah that makes me uncomfortable

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u/Suppa_K Feb 10 '25

Didn’t she move TO Compton because her dad wanted to make them live in a tough neighborhood to make them better tennis players?

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u/CCG14 Feb 11 '25

She also took a whole heap load of shit for c walking at the Olympics. It’s truly prophetic levels of layers to the entire performance. 

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u/Busycarhouse Feb 11 '25

Beef is to sell records. That is all.

Thug Pop

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u/No_Source6741 Feb 10 '25

Compton is a shit hole.

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u/Temporary-Bite1796 Feb 12 '25

Whats got you so mad?

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u/No_Source6741 Feb 12 '25

I typed that while laughing

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u/BubuLubu8 Feb 10 '25

Serena is better than this irrelevant garbage

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u/kemplem Feb 10 '25

Don't think thay word means what you think lol

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u/AlohaReddit49 Feb 10 '25

"this irrelevant garbage."

You mean the most popular song of the last 12 months? You mean one of the most popular rappers of the last 15 years?

In seriousness, she's there because she was brought up. Kendrick mentioned her, Drake dated her. It's probably also fun for her because she'll never have another opportunity to go to the Superbowl half time show.

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u/NoPerformer4456 Feb 10 '25

She’s also from Compton!

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u/AlohaReddit49 Feb 10 '25

Appreciate the call out, didn't even dawn on me I added it to the original comment for extra clarity!

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u/BubuLubu8 Feb 10 '25

It’s irrelevant garbage- I would not perform for trump for $1 The least they could do was be a No Call, No Show

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u/rawrlion2100 Feb 10 '25

Yes. Kendrick performed for Trump. Not the millions of other people watching.

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u/drjunkie Feb 10 '25

Yikes. I can’t even imagine having an IQ so low that I would think Kendrick was performing for Trump.

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u/StephenKingofQueens Feb 10 '25

Room temperature IQ at best.

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u/rawrlion2100 Feb 10 '25

Lmfao the irony of their comment being about you.

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u/BubuLubu8 Feb 10 '25

WEAK AF I hate this country

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u/rawrlion2100 Feb 10 '25

This attitude weak af

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u/BubuLubu8 Feb 10 '25

Obv a trumper, big surprise!

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u/IamSam1103 Feb 10 '25

Matey you're making Trump supporters seem like the sensible bunch.

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u/I_am_rafi Feb 10 '25

He’s not performing for Trump lol Does he happen to be in the audience? Yes. He’s for the 100 million people watching the Super Bowl not just Trump

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u/BubuLubu8 Feb 10 '25

Okay, trumper!

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u/wladue613 Feb 10 '25

Lol Kendrick famously hates Trump

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u/dulcineal Feb 10 '25

Didn’t hate him enough to actually call him out explicitly at the Super Bowl though.

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u/HumbleBear75 Feb 10 '25

Okay trumper is your only fucking response over this? Grow up

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u/AlohaReddit49 Feb 10 '25

You're saying the man who signed up for the biggest concert of the year that has more american eyeballs on it than any event of the year should have no showed? I don't want to sound rude but that'd be the stupidest idea possible.

You change racist people by showing them what we have in common. That hey, maybe you're stupid and think being black is lesser but damn that beat comes in and we all dance together. Then they open their hearts, hear the messages and do better. And you teach them that just because you're born black or white, it doesn't make you lesser than anyone else. Hell, we all love to clown on Drake together.

No showing the performance tells any person who is a racist piece of trash that black people are unreliable. You confirmed their biases instead of trying to correct them? I'll gladly take Kendrick having a symbolic performance trying to help fix our country the best way he knows versus him no showing.

As for Serena, she should be there. It's a moment, it'll be one of the 2 things people remember from this halftime show.

Also, I'm pretty sure Kendrick would get sued into oblivion for that. There's no way they just let the artist show up that day. There has to be a contract that states you will be there. Also, not every decision in everyone's life has to be about fuck Donald Trump. I hate him as much as most others but you don't win by saying no to Trump, you win by removing Trumps power over people.

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u/MleemMeme Feb 10 '25

Kendrick was named the halftime performer months before the orange turd decided to crash the game. Saying kdot performed for trump is disingenuous.

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u/P3RZIANZ3BRA Feb 10 '25

G, I vehemently dislike Trump too. But the whole world does not revolve around him. I'm sure Kendrick signed a contract with the NFL or some akin organization, which legally binded him to perform during the half time show long before Trump won the election, and subsequently said he would attend the superbowl. With Trump being a documented child molester, I think the choice of song is even more apt. He didn't perform for Trump. He performed for thousands of fans in the stadium, and millions of fans watching in other ways. If anything, considering Kendricks views on a multitude of subjects, he was most likely performing against Trump. Kendrick is a POS person IMO, a vehemently racist man. I do not support his success, nor do i think it is deserved from a moral standpoint, but I do support him speaking out against an issue that has effected billions of people alive today. An issue I'm sure Trump would not speak out against considering his cohorts, and has helped further in in the past, if not the present as well.

To address you calling (probably) the most popular song in the last decade "irrelevant garbage": I don't think you understand what irrelevant means. The song is quite relevant, both in popularity, and in speaking out against child abuse. Many members of our government have had claims of this nature levied against them, again, Trump included. You definitely have the right to call this garbage, as you are always allowed an opinion. Music is subjective art, but considering the popularity of this song and the amazing amount of people who have enjoyed it, your opinion is obviously not popular.

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u/DemonLordSparda Feb 10 '25

Trump fled the stadium after the national anthem. How embarrassing for Talor Swifts boyfriend to call it an honor for DT to attend when he didn't watch any of the game.

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u/Whatsinthebox84 Feb 10 '25

You fell out of the stupid tree

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u/Ok-Worldliness1872 Feb 10 '25

We found Drake's burner acct 😂

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u/mrgrafix Feb 10 '25

Ah yes. The crip walk performed at the Olympics that she did for the loss of her sister as well was irrelevant. It takes a quick Google search to have some basic empathy you uncultured swine

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u/SamLaPortaPotty Feb 10 '25

Serena is from Michigan. Her dad moved the whole family to Compton so they would "toughen up". Didn't work out too well for one of the older sisters though (RIP Yetunde). 

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u/frankstaturtle Feb 10 '25

She moved to Compton when she was three. It makes much more sense to say she’s from Compton than it does to say she’s from Michigan (for which she has no conscious memory of living)

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u/dulcineal Feb 10 '25

Her sister was murdered so that Serena could mock her death by c-walking all over her grave.

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u/Admirable_Loss4886 Feb 10 '25

How is that your takeaway?

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u/dulcineal Feb 10 '25

Crips murdered her sibling. She’s doing a dance that glorifies the Crips. How is that not your takeaway?

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u/Soul_Dare Feb 10 '25

How big of a circle of people should she disassociate with? All of Compton? Should she not wear a Dodgers hat because her sister was killed by Californians? No flags because Americans killed her sister?

Poverty killed her sister, like it has killed millions of desperate people. How should she handle her grief and family trauma instead?

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u/dulcineal Feb 10 '25

Are you being serious right now? You seriously can’t see the difference between “maybe don’t do a dance spelling out the name of the gang that killed my sister” and “well now I can’t be American”? Yikes.

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u/Soul_Dare Feb 10 '25 edited Feb 10 '25

Seems like you are the only one, there may be something wrong with you. This could be a good time to reflect.

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u/dulcineal Feb 10 '25

Nah, it’s been mentioned a bunch of times. Maybe learn to read?

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u/Psychological_One990 Feb 10 '25

Also married a white man and has lightened her skin….i guess she still qualifies for not like us…