We’re not completely daft.

We need to keep Kendrick safe! Also My God!!!!! I felt it in my bones. Am fired up all the way.

I’m not black and I’m sure I missed so many nuances simply because it’s hard to process all the levels of artistic GENIUS I witnessed yesterday. Can I appreciate it for what I did understand? Because I appreciated it more than any art I’ve seen in YEARS. A performance for the history books.

No I think I get it

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I loved the show and picked up on some of the digs he was getting in. Honestly, that’s what I enjoyed the most! After it was over, I saw other things that I didn’t pick up on during the performance and that made me live it even more!

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Say that shit over on X to the white nationalists and NAZIs. Fanning the flames of racial division on the platform of people pushing back on racists helps nobody. I’m glow-in-the-dark white and I enjoyed it. Know where your enemies are.

I'm white and I understood and LOVED IT!!!!

Not disagreeing, but this white lady thinks the parts she could understand were absolutely fantastic. Thank you, Mr. Lamar, for speaking truth to power!

I’m Hispanic /white. Got it! Also, loved it.

So ignorant.

True - as a white person I may not understand, but I FULLY appreciate the performance and the message. 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Well I didn't watch anything - it's a Canadian thing at the moment. And I'm just not a fan of Rap. But jeepers this man's accomplishments need to be respected regardless of genre. Old white people like me need to calm the eff down. Next year they should have freeform jazz see how that goes.

I’m Hispanic and understand. We should be coming together not divided.

This. No room for division right now. We need to stand together.

WTF is wrong with Lizzo? Next she will say straight people should stop watching programs with LGBTQA+ people because “you wouldn’t understand” Maybe she doesn’t understand.

She's a divider

They say “she isn’t taking to me.” Well, A) why doesn’t she say THAT and B) why does it seem every time she comments it needs to be justified? But I’ll never have to think about it again.

relax your ass

I blocked her. So I am completely relaxed.

so dramatic 😂😂😂

That’s what I was thinking about the comments I’m responding to

Now I have to block white people offended that I am white.

Oh, I understood it.

The gasp I let out when I heard 40 acres and a mule.

I'm White. I understood. I support and ❤️ There is no place for division and hate in this world. It's been left unfettered for far too long. So happy to see you Lizzo.

The show was amazing 🤩 and he breathed fire into our souls!!! It was beautiful and poetic! Anyone who didn't understand or complained, outted themselves as complicit with Trump's takeover. When they show you who they are, believe them. The show was fantastic

Respectfully disagree. If you're paying attention, you will understand

Just so you know, I’m 65 and white and totally understood it and grinned ear to ear through every minute of it knowing what he was doing…

I'm a gen x white lady that fully understands and only watched FOR Kendrick.

I don't have to understand all of it to LOVE IT! I'm a history nerd, I understood enough.

Ok. Here’s the thing. Now what? It needs to propel people to act. To unite and fight. Will it? I sure hope so otherwise it was just a half time show and your country is lost.

Don’t lump me in with the old whites. 10/10 perfect

I'm lumping you in with all the other whites

Exactly. I listened and heard. Those who care know. The rest are ignorant.

lol I’m not black but I don’t think we can include you in understanding the plight of the majority . Weren’t we all blocking you on TikTok six months ago for your silence ? 🤫

I don’t understand forcing my employees to eat bananas out of the cooches of sex workers either but that’s just me.

I’m a white boomer and I loved it.

You look good for someone in their 60s 😁

Thanks! Turning 65 this year 🫤

54 this year for me…Gen-xer though, lol

👏👏👏

Whether I understand it or not, I loved it for so many reasons!

Really? I disagree. I see it as a cultural thing. I’m white. GenX. Gay. I and many of my peers understood the message in the art. I absolutely loved it! I watched it 4 times the next morning🤘 Others my age were having meltdowns …

I understood it. Unpacked humans understood it. We are watching a King emerge. He knows the art, and is masterful.

We’re all oppressed when any of us are oppressed, I want to remind all the “majority” voters out there

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Because I didn’t understand it doesn’t mean I don’t respect it.

Old white Canadian here... I got it.

Can confirm. The white men at my Super Bowl party were as lost as last year’s Easter eggs! The youngest son explained to them and they were even more confused.

Confused or just indifferent?

Confused. They’re still trying to figure it out 😂🤦🏻‍♀️

Oh my, I think anyone who has felt oppressed can at least identify🙂

Kendrick Lamar understood the assignment. A+

The setting could be a prison yard, but is also what Compton looks like.

Beautiful statement!!!

There was also a part where the dancers were vogueing which is a dance that trans drag queens created. 🩷

I was 1/2 asleep from the boring first half and crashed right after his performance and I wasn't even drinking. I wouldn't have understood the Rolling Stones.

I don't know.... It's pretty powerful to me, and the message was delivered on several different levels.

Is Kendrick a cat? If not he isn't important 🤣

I’m white as white bread but I loved it!

The Kendrick halftime show is like Avengers: Endgame when you haven't watched any other MCU.

That’s a great way to explain it!

And as a fan it was like watching it all and then jaw to the floor as it all comes together.

Enough "us and them". I'm sure that we white people don't get it, so instead of creating division please elucidate us. We're already great at division is all I'm saying.

I don't understand opera and it hurts my ears. I can still appreciate the great talent.

Comparing culture with color is ridiculous. You can learn anything you want about culture, but color is identity, you can't just go to a library and learn identity.

Oh lawd, here they come 🤦🏾‍♀️

❤️

Absolutely. But also… it was really good and people should enjoy what they got to see. I’m an old head and I didn’t watch the game (boycott), but I saw KDOT on a clip. Great performance should be recognized as a great performance. He did his thang.

I’m white, grrrl and I totally enjoyed it ♥️♥️ !

Although, I would love to see you at halftime or anywhere.. you’re such an amazing talent ♥️ Keep on keeping on

I’ll be honest I was waiting for someone to make this joke. I’m glad it was you 😊

I'm white. I get it to a degree and I'm fine with it not being for me. If anything, I'm jealous of the inherent sense of community.

I may not "understand" it but I loved watching it!

That's the wrong outlook. We want white people to understand.

What really divides us is not blk vs white. It’s those with a spiritual connection to the Creator vs those who prefer power and greed. This worldly game will not be won by the ladder. A TRUE child of God would prefer living by his Grace not at the expensive of another.

I know you are not saying that people that don't have "a spiritual connection to the Creator" are bad! Not every good person is religious and not every religious person is good. Case in point: "Christian" nationalists replaced Jesus with trump and use religion as an excuse for hate and cruelty.

I don’t believe I said anything about religion. That’s man made manipulation for control. I’m talking about the Spirit of kindness, inclusion, compassion, love, honesty, and so on. The Spirit of the Creator, that does not abide injustice, hate,….lies or liars.

Yes it is nice to share culture, especially a culture with such riches. As a student I enjoyed folk music from Ireland, I think that because there had been such a history of suffering there, the poetic expression was amazing.

i'm a middle-age white guy and I watched the show, I know nothing about Kendrick Lamar, I don't really like his music that much. The show was good, But I understand that it's not for me and I'm not gonna be a little bitch about it like MAGA.

That's very butch of you

Are you sure that it's not a fat person thing?

I still want to learn.

I was all in his subliminals are sublime

Well I'm white and I completely understood it. But thanks for trying to divide us even further

Sadly I think that was the point :/ people putting up walls and choosing hate. Fascism won.

It's a shame

I'm sure you are right, but i enjoyed watching it on youtube and following along with lyrics. And again to watch choreography, old white lady here.

That's the part I did get.

No, I don't fully understand. I live in a skin that doesn't lend itself to ever fully understanding. But, I sure can respect it and it was a fantastic show no matter.

Quite a racist comment

That was STILL a very racist comment…just because i don’t like rap, i still thought it was great dancing/Choreography…to insinuate white people can’t appreciate it is not nice

Not sure you know what racism is lol But yer right, it wasn't nice.

Do you know there can be racism where black people think less of white people…not always whites demeaning blacks 🙄

Oh, I think every one of us who hates what is happening in right now understands, my friend. Even if we didn’t get every granular nuance, we absolutely FELT the biting spirit of resistance & FU commentary inherent in that brilliant performance, trust me. We may be white, but we ain’t all blind. ✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼

Same. I was on the edge of my couch like I was at a college lecture with my grade hanging in the balance. Learn it all.

Totally! I am fired up today!

Well said. In comparison, I don’t necessarily like all opera or understand every word. But I get the spirit and intensity of the music and performance. If I want to know ‘words’ I can go to the Google.

I loved the part where most of the dancers are laying motionless on the floor except a few clad in white outfits. The symbolism was very powerful.

💯

yep. same here

Same.

💯

I think his performance chased that orange motherfucker right out of the stadium! Hahahaha! Run chicken run! #chickenrun45/47runchicken

It pissed off maga That's all I need to understand

This white lady loved it.

Lot of white ladies on this thread

If you say so. I thought it was pretty rad.

KENDRICK understood the assignment and more than answered it...the embers are still burning 🔥🔥🔥 👏👏👏

Yessssss, can’t stop thinking about it!

Playing the game, and calling out the hypocrites through art. So much GREAT subversive art. And Kendrick did a great job.

I think, when it comes down to it, Kendrick is a poet... a poet with unbeatable flow ❤️

I don't know Kendrick. But I will learn now. He's a very lauded performer

🤪🤪🤪

“OH BUT IM THE ONE WHITE PERSON WHO GETS IT”!

I understood it but will never feel it on the same level as others.

I just thought it was good, personally

Not sure how you meant that, but it sounds like a big FU.

Maybe not, but I still try to.

Ooookkkk well I’m also old, not dead. The mixing was so bad I didn’t catch most of the words/lyric’s. But honestly anything that makes MAGA and Rump so upset sit just fine with me! Go Birds.

This old white lady surely tried. I was a child in the 60’s, presh human. I have never, ever forgotten the undeserved hate. Respect, m’am.

I’m a 53 y/o WW & 4 me this was a Masterclass in Black history w/ a stark warning for the future. It made me think. It made me uncomfortable in my whiteness in a way that is healthy. I can’t understand but I can appreciate the unbelievably intelligent talent on that stage & be better bc if it

Please stop.

No matter how hard they try to degrade us… I am so proud to be BLACK. It truly is a super power

Beautiful.

Thank you.

Interesting analysis.

What was missing?

I think you are overthinking it just a bit.

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you know that symbolism in art is intentional right?

I don’t think Leroy know much

I know that many people incorrectly attribute a specific meaning to art all the time. I just think the OP is overthinking/overanalyzing things a bit and are probably wrong in their assessment If the artist wants to come out and agree with the OP's assessment I'll retract my statement.

the symbolism was so on the nose it wasn’t even subtext it was just text

You aren’t thinking enough

Quit it @lizzobeeating.bsky.social . A lot of us ‘got it’ and we ain’t all darker skin- toned. Really an insulting post

HEY LIZZO - shut the fuck up.

you first fuckin loser

I'm white and I understood it wasn't meant for me, but I still had fun watching it!

I’m 🇵🇷and understood … I even danced ( 45 from the barrio and had something to prove to my kids) ! My knees got killed for the cause.

Finally! Reason.

Dear fellow white people, I have a homework assignment if you’re open. Watch the movies Bamboozled, Sorry to Bother You, and Childish Gambino’s This Is America music video. There are a lot more, but these stood out to me. Love, someone raised in a small white town who wants to do better.

I told my white team that today.

I hope they understood

It was a great show that I will watch again and again! I'm a 69 year old Canadian white woman. Loved it!

And if the Superbowl is a white thing, I don't understand that either.

With an interpreter, I understood, and I clapped loudly. 👏👏👏

But with empathy should be able to relate to the effects of cruelty and constant humiliation. But….but unGodly ppl …They not like us.

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I understood the performance and it was fantastic. I'm grateful that I have the opportunity to see performances like this. They are magnificant artistic performances and I am here for it. I know I have a lot to learn still, but this halftime show was another opportunity to learn more. Perfect!

That's offensive and unhelpful.

He is a Pulitzer Prize winner. That alone makes him important enough for people of every race to know what he is about and to do the work to understand his art.

We understand just fine you racist piece of pudding

We all felt it and were brokenhearted. My daughter knew every word and gave us background. (Philly). I listened through the week to understand and learn, and when I heard 40 acres and a mule I was sick to my stomach. 🙏🏼

I am a nearly 60 old white guy and I got the message and loved it.

he dont know you girl

Watched it a couple times on YouTube. I'm white & I thought it was brilliantly done. There's a reason the man has a Pulitzer. So much symbolism from the Squid Game yard to the costumes to the prison yard... SLJ's Uncle Sam & so much more. Those who didn't get it are the problem.

Couple of YT Black influencers broke it down for me but the Kendrick/Drake stuff is very layered if you didn’t follow the play-by-play as it all went down. SBJ as Uncle Sam was 💯 and his commentary was chef’s kiss. Loved it.

This sort of commentary does more harm than good. If I had to guess you don’t care, but IMHO, maybe you should. This is part if the reason DJT got elected again. We’re better on the same team then we are alienating people who, although a different skin color think alike. That’s some petty shit.

I understand it.

The type of shit he's on you wouldn't understand 🔥🔥🔥 and that victory for Serena too? Such a cool show to witness

Symbolism is everything.

Maybe I don’t “understand”, but I thought it was fkn awesome!!✌🏼

A beautiful black thing

I understood it just fine, and my skin color doesn't matter. It was a powerful message we needed to hear.

Indeed it was.

Maybe you didn't understand the part where this isn't for you or about you? We don't have to make everything about us my fellow white people.

It really ain't. Its a money thing and everbody knows it. Please stop. Still its *Crickets* about the Diddy ring, even when everybody knew him for years, and when they find out what Kendrick is involved in, it'll be same shit. Trafficking is trafficking.

I actually understood a lot of it. Lamar is a genius! I am an older American. Still saw it. Loved Uncle Sam. Loved revolution message. Royal DNA. It was great! Go Kendrick!

Who are you talking to?

Music is a way, a path to understanding. It doesn’t exclude, it doesn’t have a skin color and it couldn’t care less whose ears it goes into or whose mind it opens up. Last I looked, love of music is universal. So, I respectfully disagree.

I didn't understand all of it, but if you think that means I didn't understand any of it, nor appreciate it...

Most of the responses are either that’s racist or not me I’m a good one.😂😂😂 You can just accept it as fact and scroll on.

Hmm. I’ve seen people say that it’s not a fact because it wasn’t too hard to figure out. (I mean, it’s not biochemistry.) In fact that’s mostly what I’ve seen…not “that’s racist” or “I’m a good one”

Stop perpetuating a race war. It's a class war. You are part of the problem.

One race the human race 🤷🏻‍♂️ she is talking about ethnicity

...in an hateful way.

I have heard white people saying it was a black thing because they didn't get it. They are also maga. They don't want to get it.

Correct! ✅ But I’m so grateful to him, his talent, his vision, and for sending a huge FUCK YOU to The Pussygrabber Regime! And I bow to his understanding of efficiency (since it’s all the rage rn) in calling out the grown up dudes who like the MINORS, because there were quite a few in the house.

Here’s what I did understand Lizzo. It was a work of art, and it touched my heart.

To whom are you directing this? If this was a tweet I’d understand, this isn’t twitler. I have yet to see one negative post or comment about Kendrick, but I’m seeing a clear division placed by you. I thought you were against shaming…

White gramma who has loved Kendrick's genius for years. (needed some help from my millennial children to fully understand the Drake history.) I am blown away by what we experienced. Each time I watch it, I'm aware of something new. Maybe this is a teaching moment for some of White America. Some.

LIZZO I LIKED IT

More evidence I'm black, then. 🤷🏿‍♂️✌️❤️🤍💙🙏

REALLY

I knew I didn't understand all of it but loved it anyway because of the message. The rest of the wypepo I know can say this:

I don't listen to a lot of hip hop so i was a little lost. But that don't matter because my foot was still tapping to the beat! It was a good show!

White Liberals understood it.

Oddly, I understood and cheered the halftime show. I was proud.

I’m white and did understand. I loved it. Please don’t be like republicans and assume the worst of others. By the way I would have loved you playing the flute with them.

We can understand in the sense that we listened to black people and believed them, but as white people we will never truly understand cause the black experience is not our lived experience. It's not an insult or an assumption.

Is it such a bad thing that a white or any non-black person understood Kendrick's message? Let's not generalize and simplify human experience.

Some of us are trying to be educated in “black things”.

I thought it was punk rock.

I’m white. I understood. I heard the message. Don’t say because someone isn’t black that we don’t understand. We stand in solidarity with our black/African American friends. Let’s focus on the real war, Lizzo- OLIGARCHY AND FASCISM

Yeah I think she’s trying to say that no matter how hard we try, if we’re white we really can’t understand what the Great American Game (being black in the US) is like.

Regardless, there is no point in making this statement when the USA is already in chaos.

Exactly!!! This is definitely the wrong sight to start black against white!!

I have always been a progressive liberal. I’ve always been on the side of BLM. I even marched with them in 2020-2021. I hate it when Lizzo does this. I get that minorities are repressed, but that was not one of those moments.

Already enough bullshit going on we need to band together. Saying something stupid about race this is not the platform.

I'm white and I understood it loud and clear.

It was a cultured thing. ✨Crystal Clear ✨

Might not understand, but surely can appreciate!

Yeah well, Hobby Horse Olympics…. Check Mate!

I can live in Finland the rest of my life, embrace lake swimming in summer and cross country skiing over the lake... I can use a bolt action rifle to repel Russian aggression in the middle of winter, even do the impossible and learn Finnish. But Hobby horses? I shall never understand...

God, I really hope that made you laugh.

Whaaaat?

I saw this on the news months ago and my “whhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaattttt” is STILL going!

I just googled it. Mind blowing 🤯!! Tbf some of those hobby horses can jump pretty high 🤣.

Give it a few years and we’ll see flesh light javelin throws.

That would be quite a leap, but in this current climate. Who knows. Nothing would surprise me.

I'm lily wyte and I totally get it. Back it up sista. This is an AMERICAN THING

It was awesome! LIkely the best show of 2025!

I'll be honest, it flew over my head, but good on him to rally his people and to send a message to those who needed to hear it. I hope it makes a difference. America and their people are in need of help.

This white gal understood most - and for what I didn’t, I looked it up. It was clearly an important moment and deserves to be understood. Don’t think white folks aren’t willing or capable of understanding!

And as a black women appreciate that you researched what you didn’t understand instead of saying worst half time performance

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Meh. I grew up on 70’s-80’s rap/hip hop/ska/dancehall and others but, I just watched the halftime show and I can say I’m NOT a fan of current pop or rap. I’m old old skool. It’s got zero to do with empathy or knowing the lingo. This was discernible as English

Didn't you beat your employees?

It was a lot of other races who understood. But it’s also great that some who didn’t understand did some research on who is Kendrick Lamar and wanted to understand instead of saying halftime show was the worst.

I mean it wasn't very nuanced or subtle. Anybody who says they didn't get it is either lying and unable to face the reality of the USA or just reading at or above a 5th grade reading level.

*at or BELOW a 5th grade reading level. Jeez, fam, I got myself on that burn. #tootiredforthisshit

I think it’s this app! Happens to me a lot!

They All got it! They we so disturbed by it!

They not like us

Might not understand but stand with you all the same!

I knew that while watching, but I knew it was art with a message Today I, a 60 yo white woman, am choosing to learn the message and several friends have too. Don’t give up on us all, some choose to learn and not judge. Just no enough of us yet.

Ditto. Each of us carries a burden others cannot see. Be kind.

I think that is an assumption on your part.

You are correct. I am white--I cannot understand--but I supported it and listened to what he was saying.

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Always gonna exist oreos and coconuts

Oreos and coconuts?!? Now I AM confused.

With all due respect, urban dictionary can probably help you with that

emphasis on nuts

But we can appreciate it.

Also an American thing! Which we have been sorely lacking. Since…well you know

Wait I understood it!!

I don't care.

I don’t think you have to be Black to understand the show. You may have to be Black to fully understand some of the reaction to it.

What an ignorant comment. Everyone trying to come together, you’re trying to keep the divide.

You are right. I could not understand the lyrics so I looked them up. Still don't understand. (old white guy from the suburbs)

Can someone explain the flared jeans? What does it mean?!?

We don’t recognize DEI any longer, remember? Trumpers only want white performers

You’re right; I’ll never totally understand but at least I try to

Not helpful... I got it

Really, Lizzie? Aren’t we being divided enough? Shame on you!

Remember when she said that she makes music for black people.

Yeah, you white people need to go find someone else to follow on social media. Jeesh! Ain't you got any celebrities?

What kind of asinine, racist comment is this? First off I'm Hispanic, and second music is for everyone.

Oh, good news! White people can stay!

What the hell is wrong with you? You know you give the very definition of the n word right? Ignorant. People like you keep racism alive.

"People like [me] keep racism alive" - Are you following the same thread I am?

Gatekeeping, talking about/ making racial jokes. It Ali comes from racism. Especially when you tell them to go find your own. For example, the Aztec invented basketball how would you like it if I said. Black people should find their own sport.

I'd laugh. Just like if someone told me I was practicing cultural appropriation if I opened an Hispanic restaurant. It's absurd. Like, just as absurd as somebody saying they make music for only a certain color of people. Or that a halftime show can't be understood by anybody who is not black.

That's the thing, we Hispanics don't care. We would pack the place up if the food is good. And yes it is extremely ridiculous to say just like lizzo said, she didn't make her music for white people. That is racist ( but blacks can't be racist, please blacks are right behind the whites in racism)

Regardless of understanding, happy to support ❤️❤️❤️

I understand that I don’t understand.