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/Subject-Rooster-6187 Feb 10 '25

Uncle Sam telling Kendrick what to do while he’s playing the game of the streets. I hope yall got that message from the performance tonight.

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u/papaya_boricua Feb 10 '25

I'm just waiting on all the YouTube videos dissecting the halftime because I'm kinda slow and I'm sure I missed half of the messages.

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u/LaMelonBallz Feb 10 '25

So one important intricacy: Kendrick does not like Drake

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u/soundsfaebutokay Feb 10 '25

It's very subtle but I think I caught a hint or two

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u/nanie1017 Feb 10 '25

Does anyone really?

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u/HauntedDIRTYSouth Feb 10 '25

In no world does that matter though. Well his, but nowhere else.

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u/OutForServiceNShit Feb 11 '25

This made me lol so hard! That is some good humor and irony right there/ Thanks

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u/AdityaRajeshS Feb 10 '25

He literally dedicated a song to him.. are you stupid ? SMH !!!

/s

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

Yeah Kendrick always has 18 messages to everything he ever says. He is like the Oracle and we all need to decode every message.

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u/bz0hdp Feb 11 '25

Bro same I'm an old and need the references spelled out

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u/TheBone_Zone Feb 10 '25

Don’t forget it was all in front of trump

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u/WobWobWobbly Feb 10 '25

He’s not smart enough to understand any of it.

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u/ericdag Feb 10 '25

He used halftime to get his diaper changed.

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u/bx35 Feb 10 '25

It’s being reported that he left at half-time, likely to avoid K-Dot’s performance, but also, certainly, to deal with all the clean-up needed after his diaper blow-out.

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u/Far_Safety_4018 Feb 10 '25

I assumed he left long before that. You know that mf was bored 5 minutes into the game.

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u/bx35 Feb 10 '25

People are saying once he sits and invariably soils himself, he remains seated for a while to let a kind of crust start to develop. This helps with cutting down on leakage when he eventually wobbles to his motorcade.

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u/metalOpera Feb 10 '25

What a terrible day to be literate.

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u/randomly-what Feb 10 '25

He saw black people and was pissed

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u/ScytheNoire Feb 10 '25

He made them get rid of the END RACISM message, and then they ruin his night with all these black people. Poor Donnie must've been throwing a tantrum.

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u/igotgerd Feb 10 '25

Well, the moron prefers pictures over words. Guaranteed he didn't understand what was spelled out in front of him

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u/zveroshka Feb 10 '25

He will still be angry about it though.

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u/TorLam Feb 10 '25

The " turn off his TV line " .😂🤣🤣😂

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u/TSchab20 Feb 10 '25

Could you summarize what that part meant? I could tell there was a message but was too dumb to figure it out. Lol.

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u/TheGoldenSeraph Feb 10 '25 edited Feb 10 '25

Think about how America treats minority people and poor people and uneducated people. America tells you to do this and to do that and listen to this and to that and follow the rules and you'll be fine. That's the ideals but not the reality. When Uncle Sam is telling you to tighten up and stop being so ghetto but Uncle Sam perpetuates and profits off the ghettos, then whose fault is it? Uncle Sam just doesn't want you to catch on that your playing a rigged game in his favor and get irate and flip the table.

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u/TSchab20 Feb 10 '25

Ok yeah, that all makes sense. Thanks!

I really enjoyed the show because the music and choreography was good, but also it had a point to make without being over the top about it with shock imagery and all that. I’ve been reading things where people are debating certain parts and what they meant, which is a sign that the whole thing was really well thought and planned out.

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u/blonde-bandit Feb 10 '25 edited Feb 10 '25

I’m sure I missed a lot of stuff but Sam says at one point toward the beginning that it’s too ghetto, and then when there’s more lowkey stuff in “All the Stars” with the pleasant vocals he says, “that’s better,” to reference how black people in America have to moderate and tone down their culture to be more palatable to white people. Also being Uncle Sam, he was saying the government wants to silence him and people like him, and doesn’t approve of what he says and does.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '25

Kendrick’s culture is so held down they had him play on the biggest stage and most watched event in the US.

He is so against the system bro

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u/blonde-bandit Feb 10 '25

That seems like sarcasm but he grew up in Compton, I think he has the life experience to make informed social commentary.

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u/Truthhurts1017 Feb 10 '25

No common sense at all!!!

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u/Jelly_Jess_NW Feb 10 '25

I got it .. he’s always a clever performer and I really appreciate it.

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u/ALexGOREgeous Feb 10 '25

That overhead shot of all his dancers lying on the floor looking like crime scene body outlines, so good

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u/SheldonMF Feb 10 '25

Yeeeeeep. Loved every bit of this performance. The revolution IS being televised.

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u/Butterl0rdz Feb 10 '25

my entire fam missed it and thought it was super patriotic

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u/Cymen90 Feb 10 '25

"Too ghetto! Ref, deduct ONE LIFE!"

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u/Lakedrip Feb 10 '25

Whats the message? Govt bad telling ppl what to think? Then flipping it once they are doing it

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u/Slurpaderp69 Feb 10 '25

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