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Hi Friends,
This week I wanted to share my thoughts on Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show and why I think it is impacting the country the way it is.
Kendrick Lamar has surpassed Michael Jackson for most watched superbowl halftime show and joins an incredible group of elite talent and star power in even performing. Rihanna, Usher, Justin Timberlake, Prince, and so many others have brought us halftime shows that reminded us of their hits like Diamonds, U Got It Bad, SexyBack, and Purple Rain.
Kendrick chose to do something different and that’s why we’re obsessed.
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Recorded at The Orange Peel in Asheville, NC
Hi Friends,
This week I wanted to share my thoughts on Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show and why I think it is impacting the country the way it is.
Kendrick Lamar has surpassed Michael Jackson for most watched superbowl halftime show and joins an incredible group of elite talent and star power in even performing. Rihanna, Usher, Justin Timberlake, Prince, and so many others have brought us halftime shows that reminded us of their hits like Diamonds, U Got It Bad, SexyBack, and Purple Rain.
Kendrick chose to do something different and that’s why we’re obsessed.
If you love my stories I have a podcast that comes out every week: https://bit.ly/3NQmpio
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Recorded at The Orange Peel in Asheville, NC
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00:00Asheville, North Carolina make it loud for Josh Johnson
00:09I've been very excited to
00:12To come here. It's been years since I've been to Asheville and I like being here because y'all y'all have it all
00:18You know you have like you have like street crime and woods crime
00:30Yeah, I mean like this is a one only places in America where a deer could get shot with a Uzi
00:41Y'all really moving out here. No, it's incredible. I was you know
00:48Last time I was here we were on the road and we were headed to a show and there was a dude
00:53Okay, there's no good way to pop out the woods
01:00I'm trying to be fair to him right like there's I don't know what I was expecting
01:04I don't know how it could have been better, but there's no good way this dude
01:09We're passing by in the car and you know things happen fast when you're on the highway and everything
01:16But from from far away until I passed him. I see this dude pop out going
01:30And it's so hard to tell if he needed help or if someone else needed help
01:35Do you know what I mean? Like you either the victim or the assailant, but you looking like you could be equal parts right now
01:42Yeah, I mean cuz it wasn't like his head like it wasn't like he had an injury or something
01:45He's like, oh what happened? He just
01:49He looked surprised that there wasn't more woods to run through
01:53This dude popped out of the woods like there was supposed to be more trees
02:01This man popped out of the woods and froze
02:06My friends and I were just looking at him in the car as he passed one pointed and okay
02:13He ran out of the woods as if to be like, oh, I
02:17Made it I'm free
02:19I made it. I'm free or
02:23Damn, they got away. I can't tell which one it was
02:30No, cuz he was he was dressed it wasn't like he was a naked man
02:34But it's you know, okay, even if you wearing clothes
02:37There's a certain amount of legs open that make you feel naked to other people
02:42Yeah, the fact that he ran out like it doesn't matter that I have pants on right now
02:48This is a very naked stance to take
02:52This doesn't look great. These are regular clothes stances. And so the fact that he ran out the woods and stopped
02:59And was looking around
03:02It's like you might as well be naked cuz you making us a naked amount of uncomfortable, you know
03:11My man busted out of the woods
03:14And you know, I wasn't next to him I was in a car thank God I was in a car
03:19But you could just tell from looking at him. He breathing heavy
03:22Which means he was running the woods for quite a while
03:29Looking around all low why just stand up like
03:35Jeremy there's nothing to hide behind now. So being this low
03:39Legs open looking around. This is a much more comfortable position to look around in
03:49This man ran out and we saw him, okay
03:52So we saw when when he busted out of the woods we were pulling up, you know
03:57so we saw him bust out of the woods and then one of my friends pointed and I
04:02Know he couldn't hear us. I
04:04Know he couldn't hear us like I'm like you should you should know I know
04:08I know he couldn't hear us and the windows were up. He couldn't hear us, right?
04:11But my friend was like, do you see that guy and right when he said do you see that guy this man?
04:17I turned I look and I he looked at me
04:22Now I know I'm in a moving car he probably just looking in my direction
04:27But I screamed like he was in the car
04:29But I screamed like he was in the car
04:38I wanted to have nothing to do the fact that this man like this and then this man
04:50Nah, nah
04:52Sometimes it's not the time to smile, you know
04:54Now
05:00Smile smiling after running out of the woods. I think you are the assailant. I think that you
05:09But no, it's great to be back it's great to be
05:14Back in Asheville with you
05:24I
05:29Can't tell you the story
05:34When I was a when I was a kid I
05:39Was walking down the street and
05:42It's funny man art art can save your life
05:45it really can't cuz I was I was walking down the street and there was this dude right in front of me, right and
05:55I wasn't like too close to him, but I
05:58Was just basically keeping up pace with him and we hit a light and so he stopped I stopped
06:04I was just looking around and I saw a new mural
06:08that had been painted and
06:11I don't know. It just fascinated me. I took it took a second
06:15to look at it and I guess the the light had changed and we had the right-of-way and
06:21He went off walking and I was still just staring at it and then
06:27Just as I decided
06:29That I had taken it in enough
06:31I turned and got ready to take that step off the sidewalk and then in the middle of the street this car had I
06:38Guess run a light and was about to run another light and it hit that guy
06:43The guy that I was right behind, you know, and he he's okay, by the way
06:51I mean he did get hit by a car, but like he's
06:54He's the level of okay that you are years after getting hit by a car
06:58He moved on like he walked away that day. It did it mostly hit his ass, but like it
07:05It did graze him in a way that like
07:08Because I was just a couple steps behind him and because I've been keeping pace with him for a whole street
07:12I was like that would have that would have hit me
07:16square
07:18You know, I
07:20Mean they were trying to stop they had slammed on the brakes
07:23That's actually maybe one of the reasons that turns because I started hearing the screech. I saw boom and
07:31He got up but he did bounce like he
07:37It's like if he bounced I would have flown I
07:41Don't know why it is when you get hit by a car sometimes your shoe fly off. I don't know. I
07:46I
07:48Don't know why people don't tie their shoes tight enough but like
07:51This this thing like hit him from behind he spun and he went up a little bit and his shoe flew, right?
07:57But it his shoe took so little resistance to fly off
08:01Like it would be different if he had like rolled over the windshield and the shoe flew off after that
08:06But the shoes started flying off before it looked like he was really going in the air
08:10It looked like he had one shoe in one sandal the shoe was so ready to fly off
08:19Anyway, I
08:25Still can't get over what what happened Sunday at the Super Bowl like I
08:34Like I I want to be clear about something right I
08:38Want to be clear about something right?
08:40I watched the Super Bowl not really rooting for any one team just sort of watching to watch
08:45This is this big event and everything and the the Chiefs lost
08:51Harder than the Eagles won. I
08:55Don't know if that sentence makes enough sense, but it like at a certain point I was just like maybe I could play
09:05Do you I mean like I'm not good either
09:08I could get tackled, too. Oh
09:14That was that was rough that was hard there was one there was one point where I was watching it and I was like guys
09:21guys
09:23You want to what you want to watch a good game like in my mind?
09:26You want to watch a good game, especially when you don't have any loyalty to any team
09:30You just won't watch like a really fun. Wow, that's crazy type game and it was such a thrashing
09:36That I was like y'all not in front of Taylor
09:47Taylor didn't shown up and got dressed and everything
09:54There was one point that they went to Taylor on the on the camera and they they booed Taylor
10:00I was like, what did she do?
10:03Do you I mean there's nothing America hates more apparently than a woman minding her business
10:16Cuz even she was like I couldn't have done anything
10:23But I tell you what, you know, I want somebody to believe in me to really
10:30Truly from the bottom of their heart believe in me the way those commentators believe the Chiefs
10:37Could make a comeback the things that I was hearing
10:41The things I was hearing made me feel I started to feel like I didn't understand football at all the way they were talking
10:47They were talking so wild about so first ten points that the Eagles got they were like, hey
10:54Hey
10:56Fun little fact for you every time the Chiefs win in a Super Bowl. They come from behind
11:01I was like, what's that? Is that that? All right
11:06Okay, and then the Eagles scored another touchdown they were like well, it's only the first half
11:13Anything can happen next half
11:18It's like all right
11:21and
11:22Then they you know, they have the halftime show then they come back from the halftime show and then they're asking one of the announcers
11:28They they're asking one of the commentators like what was the mood like in the locker room for the Chiefs?
11:32like what was the plan and
11:35the person they were talking to was like
11:39They know
11:43No, they know they like 34 39 but whatever points behind
11:48They were mostly talking about that they were like, oh we got to go out there and correct that
11:54That that doesn't feel good at all we got to do the opposite of that next time
11:59Was the general mood in there was to just be different than they were before they I?
12:07Think there was a little prayer
12:10Yeah, they were in you know, they were they were in
12:14Tough spirits, but they're gonna try make a comeback in this next head cuz you know
12:18Taylor's here
12:21We got to do it
12:24And it was the third I think it was a third quarter Eagle scored again
12:33And it
12:35Announcers came on they're like look you never want to celebrate too early if you're the Eagles, right?
12:40Because you have no idea what these Chiefs could do you can tell they're just trying to like save the ratings as hard as possible
12:46To make it seem like there could be this 10 second comeback of 59 points or whatever
12:51They need it was it was the most insane
12:53I was like no one has ever believed in me the way that they're like you never know though
12:58Even when it was the last five minutes
13:00They were like, you know, you never want to celebrate too early because that's how you can lose the game even when you are
13:0799 points ahead. Okay. It's the hubris that loses games
13:13I'm sitting there like do I not know how to count like it's it's too many sevens away. I think they got it
13:24Like I'm not the best at math right? I'm not the best of it. I needed a math tutor and my map. Okay, I
13:33Said well as the algebra, okay
13:37Math is like don't want one of the only things that I really struggle with
13:41Genuinely in that and not like basic math, but math once it gets like conceptual, right?
13:46And so I had to take algebra one twice. It's the only class in my life, I think or maybe there's one other book
13:52Like it's one of the only class I've ever failed and had to take again, right?
13:56and so I'd take algebra one twice and I was so thankful when I finally got like a C after the second time and
14:04Then they made me take algebra two and I was like last I checked
14:09One plus one is two. I don't know what y'all are trying to do to me. Okay
14:16But I had I was algebra one, okay, I had two math tutors and what tutor quit what
14:24What tutor quit because it was okay they were helping me and then they I
14:29Was basically getting things so wrong that they were questioned
14:33They had to get away from me before they didn't know algebra anymore
14:40And so then I knew I was bad
14:42I knew that algebra was like never gonna be in my job description because
14:45My second tutor there was one time we were working on a problem and she stopped herself
14:50Just short of fully saying it but she saw me struggling so hard this woman almost said
14:57Sounded out
15:03And
15:09She stopped herself but you could tell like that beneath the surface there was this thing of like I don't even know how to help
15:15right now
15:16And don't get me wrong. I'm not judging
15:19I hate when people look at the efforts of like elite athletes as if they're not all incredible
15:23But the Kansas City Chiefs are good. They were just bad that day against the Eagles
15:28I throw a football like I've just got an arm, so I'm not gonna be over here
15:34Judging too harshly right? It's just the way that they fought they fought so hard
15:41Oh, no, they can pull it out
15:43Trust me
15:44They can do it
15:49No, and then my friend shared a theory with me this was crazy this dude this dude told me I was talking to my buddy
15:57David and David said cuz I told him the thing I just told you right I was like
16:01I've never seen a game like that where they've tried to make it seem so even the whole time even though the numbers were on
16:06the screen
16:11And my buddy David said that Tom Brady was one of the ones really pushing that narrative and he thinks that it was because
16:19Tom Brady is
16:21jaded from the fact that off of this potential three-peat people are already calling Patrick Mahomes like a goat like putting them in that
16:28conversation and so they're like
16:30they're basically
16:32lifting up Patrick Mahomes very quickly and very young very like
16:35You could even maybe say a little early in his career for the goat
16:39conversation and then Tom Brady who's obsessed with the game and gave so much of his life to it sees that and
16:46feel some type of way
16:48And so he was basically telling me that every time they did that that was actually just Tom Brady
16:54Digging in and I watched some of it again, and I think he might be right
17:00Cuz it was coming off hella sassy when you watch it back with that context like like when you see Tom Brady
17:07Commentating on the game. He's like yeah, I mean you never know with these Kansas City Chiefs
17:13And how good Mahomes is maybe he can come back from 30 points. I mean
17:19Maybe he's just that good. We don't know right a lot of people are calling him the goat
17:24I mean not today, but a lot of people are calling him the goat
17:29So maybe he could do it interesting strategy getting sacked again
17:36I've never seen anything, but this Patrick. He's good. He's very good
17:41He's probably used this as a strategy to lose by so many points in the first half that he really comes back in the second
17:47Half cuz he can't cuz he's Patrick Mahomes
17:52You know back when I was playing I tried to not get sacked
17:55But I guess if I had been sacked more and then won after that people would be more impressed, but
18:09Then
18:14And then you had the Super Bowl halftime show
18:17By
18:25Kendrick Lamar this
18:29This was crazy because okay, everyone has their opinions about it, right?
18:34But I know when I was watching it, and it started and I saw Samuel L. Jackson I
18:39I
18:41Saw Samuel Jackson camera goes over to Samuel Jackson. It's like it's your uncle Sam, and I was like oh we already started
18:53That was look that was dope that was dope tap Samuel Jackson as
18:59Uncle Sam was dope because one one thing is
19:03Obviously the little like wink wink
19:06Cute thing right, but one thing a Kendrick is incredible at doing something something
19:12I haven't seen people really be able to do whether it's through music or imagery is layers to a story
19:16And there's multiple layers to everything that happened, right?
19:21Samuel Jackson is playing uncle Sam and body of America
19:26Welcoming us to the great American game. The great American game is in the game of Kendrick's life. That's about to play out, right?
19:33That's why we see the PlayStation controller on the football field the game as in football and the game as in the thing that
19:41We're all in the thing that we all play whether you feel like you're playing it or not. You're a part of it
19:46you know and
19:47One thing you have to watch out because Kendrick leaves these Easter eggs and so like that
19:51You also can read so deep into it you go off on a deep end where if you were able to talk to Kendrick
19:57He would be like nah
19:59The
20:03Internet is full of him the air that is full of like yeah
20:06So then he had these dancers come out in red white and blue because Drake, okay
20:12Because he beat Drake blue and then you won't see red cuz we beat up so much that the red comes out and Drake is
20:18white like I think that that's
20:22That's a very misguided take
20:26But you can get there
20:28It's very easy to get there you you try you start you start searching hunting trying to read into every little thing and if you're not
20:34Careful. Yeah, you go off on some deep end. That's not what anybody intended, you know
20:40And this dude says it because that's the other thing. He set you up with some pretty
20:47Some some some pretty fire lines that make you start digging
20:51He specifically says
20:53You wouldn't get the picture if I sat you for hours in front of the Louvre
20:58So now even I'm digging I'm like, oh, okay. Yeah the Louvre. All right
21:04Drake Drake is Canadian French Canadian the Louvre
21:13Yeah, yeah French Canadian the Louvre like in France where they keep the art but Drake's not an artist no
21:19No
21:26That might not be it that might be that was dumb my bad
21:34And so he does he does the snippet some people are calling it bodies and then he he does squabble up and
21:41out of nowhere
21:44After
21:45Squabble up Samuel Jackson comes out again. No, no, no
21:49Too loud too reckless to ghetto one of the things that if you've been black in America at any point you've heard about
21:56Yourself whether you overheard it from people talking behind your back or it was told to your face
22:01Too loud too reckless to ghetto. There's something wrong with you. Just being yourself
22:06No, and it's delivered by uncle Sam
22:10I
22:12Don't know when I when I go when I go to like a new place
22:18One time my friend was asking me because I travel so much he's like, how do you know how
22:24racist the place is
22:27When you when you go there, you know, don't you think about it? I was like, yeah, I think about it
22:31You know, if you're if you're black in travel America, you think about a little bit and I was like, you know
22:35I'll just go to like a a West Elm or a Patagonia or
22:48Or a Lululemon or
22:52I'll just walk in and and and look around do a little shopping and just smile at people
23:01And however, I get there
23:04And however long it takes them to smile back it's probably how much danger I'm in
23:14You know you go in a Patagonia you smiling at everybody hey, yeah, yeah, yeah and you get a couple smiles back quick
23:20You're like, all right
23:23We're safe
23:28But if you walk into a West Elm
23:31And everybody just looking
23:33at each other
23:41Looking at each other too
23:47Don't you say something somebody finally approaches they're like
23:52Can I help you? I know we're not staying there tonight. Oh
23:59So then this dude
24:02Uncle Sam
24:03Samuel Jackson tells
24:06Tighten up. He asked him. Mr. Lamar. Do you really know how to play the game?
24:11Do you really know how to navigate
24:14Do you really know what's expected of you?
24:16Do you really know what to do next then tighten up and that's a that's a wild conversation to have with
24:24With someone who maybe even thinks they're helping you right because that that's been told to me in different ways
24:32by
24:33by lots of people
24:35Tighten up watch yourself
24:38Don't be timid. Don't be afraid
24:40Don't be afraid to ask questions
24:43Tighten up watch yourself
24:46Don't be too loud
24:47Too ghetto too reckless, you know, I mean and sometimes sometimes it's it's white people sure
24:53But sometimes it's older black people that I know
24:56That just want you to be safe
24:58Because they know how the game is played, right?
25:01Because I don't know if I don't know if you can tell by looking at me, but i'm not exactly a hard individual
25:13I mean like i'm not
25:21You know what I mean
25:22Not only about that hard individual. I remember one time, you know
25:24Baba tried to raise me to be a gentleman and there was this one time I was in college and um
25:31working on a group project and one of our
25:34Classmates was ready to go to her car and she was like, hey does anybody mind anybody mind walking me to my car?
25:41And I was like, yeah and then she was like does anybody mind walking us to my car
26:03Not a i'm not a hard individual
26:06You know, i'm not i'm smiling at everybody literally I use the smile test
26:11That's how I know if a place is safe or not
26:14I smile
26:16I make myself
26:18open right
26:20I show
26:21i'm, no threat and
26:23I even got in trouble my friends one time because uh
26:30We were walking down the street in chicago and
26:33the you know
26:34made eye contact with this cop and he was like, uh, he was like morning just
26:40Little passing morning and then I didn't realize it came out like this, but apparently I was like officer
26:54I don't remember it like that
26:57But apparently that's how I sounded my friends were
27:00Were
27:02Very upset with me
27:06One of them said I said it like I was welcoming him home
27:12I thought I just said officer. Apparently I was like an officer. Uh
27:19So once again, i'm not a hard individual
27:24So if i've got the speech
27:27If i've got that speech tighten up
27:30That's too loud. That's too reckless. That's too ghetto if I got it
27:36Damn
27:38There's no there's no end to the game that you can try to play with respectability politics
27:45You know, you can either be yourself or you can't
27:48And and if you can't then to whatever degree that you can't doesn't really matter
27:55Do you really know how to play the game then tighten up
27:59It goes into
28:02Man at the garden and man the garden is one of those things. It's a refrain
28:06I deserve it all all these things right and he's on the block and you see these boys on the block so black
28:12gold teeth dreads everything
28:15And then they scurry they see uncle sam coming
28:18Uncle sam walks up kendrick's already walked off and he says oh you brought your homeboys with you
28:23Okay, little culture cheat code turns to the camera
28:28And says scorekeeper to duck one life
28:32And some people didn't hear it. Apparently the mixing wasn't great
28:36For everybody so there were some people whose review of super bowl halftime was pretty bad
28:41And some people thought they were just being haters, but no genuinely
28:45Depending on where you watched it depend on the mix that you heard
28:48So there were little things that kendrick said that either went over people's heads. They didn't quite hear they didn't
28:54Music was too loud too soft, whatever
28:58I was watching the super bowl halftime on tubi and tubi did incredible tubi
29:06Tubi knocked it out of the park. I was genuinely I was like man tubi was like this is our chance
29:16We cannot mess this up
29:19A lot of people don't know we exist
29:23And we're literally free
29:26We have to knock this out of the park
29:29And they did because I heard everything I saw
29:32samuel jackson turn
29:34Scorekeeper to duck one life and that that thing hit me hard because that is what happens
29:40That is part of the game. You should you should know that
29:43That's one of the reasons that it's sometimes scary to stand up. It's scary to be different because whenever you build community
29:50They usually deduct one life
29:52Whenever you make a movement
29:55They deduct one life and there are plenty of examples of it happening with black people in black culture
30:00But it is everybody just so you know
30:03No matter who you are no matter what you look like
30:05No matter when you came to this country try to start a union
30:13And look it might it might not be you they might miss
30:20But it is what happens
30:22Deduct
30:23One life and it's wild to hear samuel jackson deliver that line because samuel jackson was a usher at martin luther king's
30:31funeral
30:33right like
30:35samuel jackson
30:37Used to be way more militant and i'm not saying he's not now i'm just saying like
30:41Back in the day. He was about that action
30:44He'd lock you in a room
30:48And wait till you came to your senses
30:52So then they they go to peekaboo
30:56Uh, I don't know it's just funny to be what kids are just like peekaboo
31:07I had to laugh that's people have so many theories about peekaboo about um
31:13about
31:14Him using luther and all the stars scissor coming out
31:19Being on the triangle like i'm once again
31:21I'm, not acting like I caught every single thing, but I know that when samuel jackson pops up again, and he says yes
31:27See, that's what we want
31:29That's what we want. That's what america wants nice calm. You're almost there. Don't mess this up
31:38Right because if we're being honest
31:41That is that is the the truth of the matter people even sometimes people who love hip-hop love
31:46Hip-hop love black people love anyone different the way that
31:54The way that people love those tigers they take pictures with
32:00I don't know if you ever been on tinder
32:03But every once in a while on tinder there'll be somebody with uh, one of their pictures. It's just them next to a full-blown tiger
32:11Hugging them and the tiger sedated as hell the tiger is over here
32:16And
32:24And they're over there hugging its neck like they're in the jungle book
32:29Like we have to protect these beautiful animals. All right
32:33We have we have to preserve their way of life. Oh shoot him again. Shoot him again in with the dart
32:38He looked like he was opening his eyes for a second
32:40Right
32:42So sweet so gentle deep down they're just gentle gentle creatures shoot him again
32:49He moved that leg. I don't like what that leg doing
32:53Looked like he gonna get up
32:56And that is how people sometimes, you know prefer their hip-hop prefer their protest. Why can't you just do it sedated?
33:04You know, why can't you just tone it down a notch, right?
33:09And he plays not like us
33:15And people lose their minds
33:19I I loved him. Uh
33:22I loved him playing it because because of what he said
33:25When he started it, you know 40 acres and a mule. This is bigger than the music
33:31They tried to rig the game, but you can't fake influence that's wild
33:36If you really think about those lines in any context outside the super bowl outside drake the song not like us everything
33:41They still stand all on their own
33:44You know how many of us feel like we're in a rig game?
33:51And it was beautiful to watch not like us get played on that world stage, you know
34:00Drake tried he tried his best
34:02That dude tried his damnest not only did he try that dude went to australia
34:10Not only was he not in america he was under the earth
34:21This man went under earth
34:25To do to his credit i'm not acting like he's not a big artist
34:28I'm, not acting like he doesn't have an album dropping this weekend
34:31I'm saying like this dude went under the earth to do an arena show
34:35Just to make sure at least these people aren't watching the super bowl
34:50Can you imagine
34:52Going that anita max wind tour you paid extra for tickets you you pretty close and
35:01You get a little curious
35:07Drake on stage. What is that? What is that? Get him out of here
35:15Oh
35:20Um, then oh you had you had that dude
35:28That dude performed not like us when I when I was a uh
35:32What was it like two years ago?
35:35Um, I went to visit my friend now
35:36My friend had a baby years before that by the time I met his kid
35:40His kid was five because we hadn't seen each other a really long time
35:44and
35:45cutest kid
35:46It's crazy that my friends are having kids because I can see you ever see somebody who looks so perfectly like a mix of their parents
35:54you see perfectly both of those people in this new person and
35:59He we were supposed to hang out all day and he went and we were in the kitchen
36:03He grabbed, uh something for us to drink. And so he had poured himself an almond milk poured
36:08Kid something was like we want anything. I was like, oh i'll just take that and then poured me something
36:13He's like i'm gonna just go ahead and get changed. I'll be right back
36:16He goes upstairs and now it's just me and his kid and i'm like, how are you doing? He's like i'm good
36:23And it's crazy because he even he even had just just
36:27I'm, just meeting this kid, but he already had my buddy's mannerism. Just that shoulder thing. I'm good. It's exactly like his dad. I'm good
36:35I was like, oh, okay
36:37You having a good day. He's like, yeah
36:40You know, it's like you excited. Um, I think we're gonna go to the zoo or something
36:43He's like, yeah, sure. I'm excited be fun, you know
36:48And then uh, and then he turned around
36:51and
36:53He knocked my milk over
36:55And
37:00This kid had been so sweet up until this point I was sure it was an accident right
37:05until he turned to me and he was like
37:08I spilled your milk
37:18And when I tell you that thing was imprinted on my memory like it like like I I had actually forgotten about it
37:24for these like two years
37:28Until kendrick said say drink
37:39Kendrick lamar has an incredible smile, but he always seems to use it for dastardly deeds
37:48This man said
37:50I haven't been that scared. I know he was talking to drake, but even I was at home like oh like
37:58That man whipped around and said say drake like he just ran out of the woods
38:12Oh, that was crazy that was that was insane say drank
38:17Okay
38:19And then you see you see a glimpse of
38:24Serena
38:30I couldn't believe I saw serena. I saw serena dancing. I was like, is that serena?
38:34And kendrick and dave free must have known we wouldn't believe it was serena because then they showed her again I was like what?
38:40That is serena
38:44That's serena over there crip walking
38:48Which if you pay attention to the layers
38:51You pay attention to the storytelling one of the most beautiful things about serena being on stage crip walking dancing
38:56Right. It's not just as a as a sort of fu to drake, right? Because it is it is
39:03Because her and drake, you know
39:10And then serena moved on and
39:12Ah drake couldn't handle a lot of people think that uh
39:17Kendrick lamar is drake's kryptonite and he really isn't drake's kryptonite is a woman who's moved on
39:25JB like there's nothing that drake hates more than a woman minding her business
39:37And so he would make songs little sneak disses at
39:40At serena little sneak disses at rihanna all this stuff right he loves beefing with women who have moved on
39:48The best way I can sum up drake
39:52To me is one time I was in chicago and apologies if you've already heard this little quick story
39:59But I was in chicago and I was sitting
40:03On the train and this woman gets on the train
40:06beautiful
40:08like
40:09Knockout gorgeous woman, right?
40:11And she ended up sitting next to me
40:14And then this other dude gets on the train and he's sitting across from us and he tries to holler, you know
40:20He's like he's like hey
40:22Hey, sweet thing. How you doing? Right now this dude to be fair was very good-looking
40:28He was very good-looking like when I when I looked up at him, I was like, oh you two would make sense
40:35Very good-looking dude put together everything and uh
40:39And he's like, hey sweet thing. How you doing? What you doing? Where you going?
40:43How's your night, you know, and then she looks up
40:47From her phone and she goes. Oh, uh
40:51Nah
41:00And I hated that I was sitting next to her because I had to turn all the way around
41:09So
41:13But she goes oh, uh, nah
41:18And he just sits there
41:22Sits there for like
41:24You know, maybe 40 seconds
41:27and then
41:28train doors open
41:30and he looks at her and he's like
41:33You can't hurt me and then he got off the train
41:39So
41:44And that's what a lot of drake beefs with women feel like to me
41:54Because the layers of serena dance is not just like this fu to drake is is one also
42:01We're playing the game, right? We're all part of the game
42:04And it's a black woman having a good time
42:07It was also pre-revolutionary
42:10you know
42:12And if you if you follow serena, have you followed tennis?
42:15You'll know that when she did the same dance at wimbledon. They came for her hard
42:21They said it was too. Ugh too loud too reckless too ghetto
42:28And now she's doing it in front of the world
42:30In front of the world with nothing but joy and people cheering her on right
42:36Giving us full circle moments
42:40I thought that was so dope
42:45I even tried to do it. I hurt myself. I
43:00Move it. No, I popped I popped right up. I was like, oh serena
43:12And and I think that one of the things one of the most revolutionary things you can do is just have joy
43:18Just have have a good time
43:22I watched so many people
43:24I
43:26Watched so many people just having fun. I watched people watch it and have fun that Walmart
43:32Just to see so many people having a good time. I know it wasn't for everybody
43:36I know there were some people that thought it was boring. They didn't like it or whatever and he said ahead of time
43:42You wouldn't get the picture if I sat you for hours in front of the Louvre
43:47So it may not be for you and that's okay, but I watched so many people
43:52Have such a good time. It was dope, you know
43:57And it's more than it's more than fitting it's a blessing it's an honor to talk with you about this about black music about
44:05Black joy at the orange peel in ashville, north carolina a place
44:14A place that in the 60s and 70s
44:17Had incredible black acts
44:20You know was sometimes
44:22One of the few places that they could get booked
44:25where
44:26black owned radio stations had djs do party nights like
44:31It was great to be here and I appreciate you having me, you know, it's
44:42I I think that
44:44I I think that for the most part when I when I think about the halftime show
44:48And I when I re-watch it for the hundredth time
44:53And there were so many people that were
44:57Critical of kendrick. It should have it should have been more. He should have done more
45:00He should have like gone up there been more military should have done this should have done this and it's like look look
45:06Can I just tell you?
45:07I'm, not trying to be a bummer when I say this but like everything you've ever watched that ever went out on a broadcast
45:14That you thought was revolutionary or you thought was was ultra militant was approved for you to see by a corporate lawyer
45:23like
45:25Like all of it was
45:26You know, in fact whenever a moment gets through that's not that thing that person usually faces swift consequences
45:34There are so many people that are like no, he didn't go far enough
45:37He didn't do he could have done so much more and it's like look look. I understand. I understand
45:42that's what people are saying, but if you really believe that if you really believe that
45:47He could have he should have done so much more. I can tell you this art can save your life
45:52Art art can absolutely save your life
45:56I believe it from the bottom of my heart, but believe me when I tell you that entertainment will never be your salvation
46:04All right art can save your life. But entertainment entertainment
46:08By and large is escapism
46:11Yes, and no one has ever escaped their chains by forgetting they were there
46:16So you you you cannot when I tell you you will not be saved through entertainment alone
46:22Expecting kentrick to rap so good that trump is like i'ma stop
46:27Ah
46:39Like be serious
46:45If you really believe that if you really believe he didn't go far enough he didn't do enough
46:49There was so much more he could have done forget the symbolism forget the double entendres. He should have spoke plainly
46:54He should have put it all out there. I have great news for you. There are these things called books, right?
47:01There are these things called books and every revolutionary that the government was scared enough to murder
47:07Almost all of them wrote one before they died
47:10And they're so confident that you won't read it. They have it for free at the library
47:15I
47:22I'm i'm just i'm just genuinely. I don't know. I don't know what to say
47:26Sometimes when people are like, why didn't he do this? It's like I don't know man
47:30I'm, not in his head
47:32You know
47:33He's great
47:34You can't expect him to save you. He did an entire album
47:38Where he said he wasn't our savior
47:41The whole album where he was like, yeah, but I rap
47:48I think it was incredible
47:50I think it was a phenomenal show, especially in a year and a time where there are people that would have black history disappear
47:58You know, there are people that would have us forget
48:03And I think the only way
48:05To to stop black history from going away is to make more of it all the time
48:10make new
48:11new history all the time
48:13new moments
48:15You know because so many people were like man. It was so boring. I didn't get it and it's like I you know
48:20it's the most watched thing right under the moon landing, but
48:25I'm sure that was hate watching. You're right
48:31I I think that
48:33Whatever you take away from the performance
48:36If it's art that touched you that made you feel something
48:40That's good. That's all you can hope for
48:42but if you want like a
48:44a revolution
48:46If you if you want change, you're probably gonna have to
48:49Go outside and get some or make some
48:53that
48:54like if you want
48:59Like because then you know, he plays not like us and then we all scream mustard
49:05DJ muster comes out they're dancing
49:08And one thing I really loved about the performance genuinely from by my heart is that almost always what people will do
49:15The super bowl thing to do is go out there and play your hits make a medley
49:18That that reminds us why we love you, right and this dude he did he did some of his hits
49:23But he mostly did this gnx album. He even says it when they start playing tv off
49:29This is gnx. We came here from korea
49:32This is gnx we came here from compton california to party with y'all
49:44Then the
49:46superbowl halftime show
49:48ends after he
49:51Hits that tv off game over cold cold stuff
49:56And then they come back
49:59Tom bray's like well, let's see if patch mahomes can like really bring it home like he's so good. I've heard he's great
50:06I've heard he's fantastic
50:08So i'm sure he could come back from this 2000 point deficit
50:16Oh
50:18No, for real though if you
50:21If you if you want if you want change art can save you entertainment will never be your salvation
50:28And so if you really want to see a different neighborhood a different country a different world
50:34You probably have to turn tv off