Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show has been labelled “the worst halftime show in history”.
RadarOnline.com can reveal the rapper, who picked up five Grammys seven days earlier, received flak from fans for his performance at the Caesars Superdome on Sunday.
He started out the performance on top of a car before taking a swipe at his hip hop rival, Drake, 38.
Despite the One Dance hitmaker recently suing his and Lamar’s record label, Universal Music Group, over the controversial diss song, Not Like Us, which calls Drake a “certified pedophile”, Lamar still performed the song, however, he omitted the word.
It seems the musician opted not to say the word to avoid another lawsuit, as right before he started rapping he told the crowd, “I want to perform their favorite song, but you know they love to sue.”
The rapper had a surprise introduction from actor Samuel L. Jackson, 76, who was dressed up as Uncle Sam, and performed a medley of his hits, before he was joined by R&B singer SZA, 35.
Lamar did go on to deliver two other controversial lines, including “Say Drake, I hear you like them young” and “trying to strike a chord and it’s probably a minor,” as the crowd sang along.
He also wore a big silver chain pendant with a small letter “a”, in another reference to “A minor” in the lyrics.
The scathing diss track about Drake – currently out of the country on tour in Australia – won Lamar a Grammy for Record of the Year and Song of the Year last weekend.
Tennis champion Serena Williams, 43, who was once linked to Drake, was pictured dancing during Lamar’s performance of Not Like Us.
At one point during the charged performance a man with a Palestinian flag tried to storm the halftime show but was intercepted by security.
Fans inside the stadium saw the drama unfold but TV cameras didn’t show it to viewers.
Lamar rocked a blue and white jacket, a black shirt, blue jeans and a backwards hat.
He was joined by a crew of backup dancers who formed an American flag while dressed in red, white and blue.
