Kendrick Lamar makes a diss track historic with Super Bowl halftime performance: Highlights in pics
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- Kendrick Lamar took the Super Bowl halftime stage Sunday, adding another milestone to his rise as a rap icon.
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Kendrick Lamar commanded one of the world's most high-profile stages Sunday as the Super Bowl's halftime headliner, yet another feather in the cap of the rap laureate who has ascended to new heights of pop stardom.(Getty Images via AFP)
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Lamar performed a string of his classics while toying with his audience who had one major question: would he perform "Not Like Us," the searing diss track that served as the knockout blow in his eyebrow-raising rap battle with Drake?(Getty Images via AFP)
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Serena Williams performs onstage. Another notable cameo came from Serena Williams, the tennis legend who also hails from Compton -- and who is thought to have briefly dated Drake.(Getty Images via AFP)
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Lady Gaga watches fro the stands during halftime. Lamar offered his classics like "Humble" and "DNA" as well as tracks from his most recent album "GNX" -- he began the set atop the Buick Grand National it's named for -- including "Squabble Up" before sending fans into a frenzy in delivering the goods, a knife-twisting rendition of "Not Like Us." (AP)
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The set was also punctuated by a protestor who unfurled a flag in support of Gaza and Sudan during the performance, a moment production company Roc Nation told AFP was not rehearsed."The individual hid the item on his person and unveiled it late in the show," said the NFL, who added the protestor was part of the 400-member field cast.(AFP)
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Samuel Jackson performs onstage. He dressed as Uncle Sam, a character emblematic of American patriotism that has frequently appeared in military propaganda.(Getty Images via AFP)
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Before his climactic delivery of "Not Like Us" -- which just one week ago scored Lamar five Grammys -- the artist brought SZA, who he's due to tour with, onstage.Their duet included a performance of "All the Stars," their hit off the "Black Panther" soundtrack. (AFP)
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Troupes of dancers dressed in red, white and blue at one point coalesced into an American flag formation.(Getty Images via AFP)
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