Kendrick Lamar played on the term "the Great American Game" with a polarizing, Samuel L. Jackson-narrated performance that felt like a Spike Lee Joint in music form. Like every Kendrick Lamar offering,

Kendrick Lamar’s bootcut Celine jeans were arguably the star of his Super Bowl half-time performance. It’s not just Lamar, though: bootcut jeans were seen across a few runway shows for fall 2025 and spring 2025, including at Louis Vuitton (creative director Pharrell Williams himself is a bootcut aficionado) and Amiri. Will men start buying in?

He teased “Not Like Us” twice before finally performing the first verse of the track that concludes with the popular “A minorrrr!” line — a lyric heard and sung throughout the announced New Orleans crowd of 65,719 at Caesars Superdome. As expected, Lamar changed some of the lyrics for television, but the message was clear.