Kanye West has revealed that he’s a fan of Kendrick Lamar‘s latest Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present, calling it his “favorite” since Michael Jackson‘s iconic 1993 efficiency.
Yesterday (February 10), Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar made historical past by changing into the primary solo rapper to headline the coveted Halftime Present. For the efficiency, he was joined by SZA and featured cameos from Samuel L. Jackson and Serena Williams.
He carried out a slew of tracks from his newest providing ‘GNX’, some cuts off ‘DAMN.’ and two Drake disses ‘Euphoria’ and the acclaimed, Grammy-winning ‘Not Like Us’.
Following the head-turning efficiency, Kanye West spoke about Kendrick’s efficiency. The video, captured and shared by way of NFR Podcast on X (previously Twitter), sees Kanye praising Lamar’s efficiency.
Kanye mentioned: “A number of individuals been asking me ‘What did you consider the Kendrick Halftime Present?’ and I actually cherished the present. It was my favorite Halftime Present because the Michael Jackson period, which I sort of simply barely keep in mind, I simply be seeing clips of it.”
He went on to clarify: “It was tremendous easy, the flag was recent. Once they did [‘HUMBLE.’], the way in which individuals’s heads had been shifting. I used to be like, shook. That is like, tremendous recent. The person’s voice management and all that. And you realize, in fact they constructed up the controversy on whether or not he’s going to do [‘Not Like Us’]. And on the finish, I noticed individuals saying that is the worst Halftime Present and I’m similar to ‘all people I talked to in actual life mentioned that is the most effective Halftime Present’”.
Kanye speaks on Kendrick Lamar’s #SUPERBOWL Halftime Present 👀
“I actually cherished the present. It was my favourite present because the Michael Jackson period.” pic.twitter.com/A7opyTrwTs
— NFR Podcast (@nfr_podcast) February 10, 2025
Lamar’s efficiency has acquired blended reactions from followers and viewers. Some have labelled it a “masterpiece”, whereas some have known as it the “worst Tremendous Bowl efficiency within the final decade”.
NME has ranked Kendrick’s efficiency because the third greatest Tremendous Bowl efficiency of all time, solely behind Michael Jackson’s 1993 showcase in second place and Prince‘s 2007 efficiency in first.
West’s – now legally often known as Ye – approval of Kendrick Lamar’s efficiency comes after a collection of weird and controversial tweets he posted on X over the weekend earlier than his account was deactivated.
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Over the weekend, Ye launched a string of controversial posts that noticed him withdraw his apology to the Jewish neighborhood for previous anti-Semitic feedback, in addition to declaring himself as “a Nazi”.
He had additionally tweeted “I like Hitler”, praised billionaire and X-owner Elon Musk as “essentially the most lit individual that [has] ever been on Twitter” and claimed that each one different individuals look as much as him. Musk himself had drawn criticism and allegations of Nazism earlier this yr when he made two Nazi-like gestures throughout Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration.
He would go on to declare “dominion” over his spouse Bianca Censori, who on the Grammys crimson carpet occasion revealed a totally see-through costume exposing her nude physique: “I’ve dominion over my spouse. This ain’t no woke as feminist shit. She’s with a billionaire, why would she take heed to any of you dumb ass broke bitches? Folks say the crimson carpet look was her resolution… Sure, I don’t make her do nothing she doesn’t need to, however she positively wouldn’t have been in a position to do it with out my approval, you silly ass woke pawns.”
Ye additionally voiced his help for Diddy and Chris Brown, and urged for the previous to be launched from jail amid sexual abuse allegations, and has since wiped his web site and is just promoting a white t-shirt with a big swastika on the chest listed as “HH-01”. The garment is priced at $20, with the itemizing’s identify of “HH-01” presumably a reference to the ‘Heil Hitler’ chant that might accompany Nazi gestures.