Rapper Kendrick Lamar, star of the Super Bowl and America concert, has not forgotten Drake

His show was also expected that the shock between the “Chiefs” and the “Eagles”: the Californian rap icon Kendrick Lamar married the hip-hop culture with the colors of America on Sunday evening during the Super Bowl concert. Without forgetting to interpret his anti-dron piece, in a slightly watered down version.

In front of the 80,000 spectators of the Superdome Caesars of New Orleans, and probably more than 100 million Americans in front of their screen, the child from Compton, a disadvantaged suburb of Los Angeles, became the first Hip- artist on Sunday evening Hop to ensure solo the essential half-time concert of the final of the American football championship, after the collective performance of the Rap Snoop Dogg, Dr Dre, Eminem -And already, Kendrick Lamar- in 2022.

For this quarter of an hour of late glory of the dominant musical genre in the United States, he chained the classics – “Humble”, “DNA” – and the songs of his latest album “GNX”, like “Peekaboo” or “Squabble Up “. First squat, cap upside down on his head, on the hood of this Buick GNX which he likes, then surrounded by spinning dancers dressed in blue, white and red, which at one point formed a flag of the states- United.

During the show, a demonstrator managed to briefly get on the car to brandish a Palestinian flag marked with the words “Sudan” and “Gaza”, an emergence including the North American football league (NFL) and the Roc Nation company, which Produced the concert, said it all ignore everything.

Serena Williams and Sza join him on stage

But the 37-year-old rapper, considered one of the best of his generation, preferred to send a more symbolic message on the lack of recognition of hip-hop culture and the place of African-Americans in the United States Society , through an unexpected dialogue with an “uncle Sam” embodied by actor Samuel L. Jackson.

“No, no, no, noooooooon. Too noisy, too unconscious, too much + ghetto +. Mr. Lamar, do you really know how we do it? “Says” Uncle Sam “after the first lines. Despite the admonitions, Kendrick Lamar continued to rap, dance and walk forward, an image of emancipation to which he often refers in his texts.

Among the dancers, we saw nothing less than the legend of female tennis Serena Williams, another child from Compton. Then, Kendrick Lamar began the duo announced with his friend Sza, one of the great voices of the current R&B scene, all dressed in red leather.

But everyone also wondered if he would interpret “Not like Us”, his viral hit and vitriol, full of contempt and hatred for his rival Drake, which he even accuses in sharp worms and pedophilia (Drake has never been prosecuted for such facts).

After maintaining a false suspense-the title sample returned from time to time-Kendrick Lamar spit his venom during the most watched evening on television in the United States, a week after winning five Grammy Awards thanks to this tube . “But you know that they like complaints in justice,” he said, alluding to the defamation prosecution launched by the Canadian rapper before the courts. Probably to avoid weighing down the file, he avoided pronouncing the word “pedophile”. But he did not spare his rival of the most cruel and controversial verses of the song which say almost the same thing in a more diverted way.