Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu, the Kendrick Lamar dancer who held up the flags of Sudan and Palestine during the Super Bowl Halftime Show, has been arrested. On Thursday, Louisiana State Police announced officers had arrested the 41-year-old performer for allegedly “resisting an officer” and “disturbing the peace by interruption of a …
Read More »Lil Wayne Says He'll Never Play the Super Bowl After 2025 Snub: 'They Stole That Feeling'
Lil Wayne said he will never play the Super Bowl after being snubbed for the 2025 halftime show in his hometown of New Orleans: “They stole that feeling,” he tells Rolling Stone in a new cover story. “I don’t want to do it. It was perfect.” For Wayne, the Super …
Read More »Kendrick Lamar's 'Not Like Us' Tops the Charts After Super Bowl Performance
“Not Like Us” is back on top. A week after Kendrick Lamar‘s Super Bowl halftime performance, the diss track skyrocketed back to Number One on Billboard’s Hot 100, giving the song its third non-consecutive week atop the chart. “Not Like Us” garnered 49 million streams last week, according to Luminate, …
Read More »Kendrick Lamar's 'GNX' Back at Number One After Super Bowl
Kendrick Lamar‘s GNX has bounced back to Number One on Billboard’s 200 Albums chart, riding a wave of momentum after the rapper’s lauded Super Bowl halftime performance, the publication reports. The album, which hit Number One late last year after its release in December, sold 236,000 units and amassed 161.01 …
Read More »Kendrick Lamar's Halftime Show Wasn't 'Radical,' But Who Expected It To Be?
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, the 13-minute set left observers with a lot of takeaways — but they aren’t all good things. Some …
Read More »Seal's 'Kiss From a Rose' Becomes Bizarre Mountain Dew Baja Blast Jingle
Three decades ago, Seal‘s “Kiss From a Rose” was a sultry, mysterious, romantic pop megahit — thanks in no small part to its appearance on the soundtrack for Batman Forever. In 2025, the U.K. soul singer’s soaring anthem is one of those Super Bowl commercials that make you wonder if …
Read More »Tom Brady Is a Battery-Powered Robot in Super Bowl 2025 Commercial
Duracell released its first-ever national Super Bowl commercial on Sunday, so who better to welcome their debut onto the nation’s football stage than the 10-time Super Bowl-appearing quarterback himself: Tom Brady. Brady appeared in the commercial in the role of a Fox commentator who powers down just as he’s beginning …
Read More »Kendrick Lamar Brings 'Not Like Us' to the Super Bowl Halftime Show
Introduced by Samuel L. Jackson in an Uncle Sam outfit, Kendrick Lamar blazed through his back catalog and tracks from his latest release, GNX, at the Super Bowl in New Orleans — and after multiple teases, launched into part of his Drake-savaging hit “Not Like Us.” He skipped the word …
Read More »Serena Williams Defends Taylor Swift Against Super Bowl Boos
Tennis legend Serena Williams took time during Super Bowl LIX to come to the defense of Taylor Swift, after the singer received a loud chorus of boos when she was shown on the screen during the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles matchup. “I love you @taylorswift13 dont listen to …
Read More »Tim Robinson and Sam Richardson Watch an Alien Die in Super Bowl Totino's Ad
Tim Robinson and Sam Richardson, the comedic geniuses behind Detroiters, a sitcom about an underdog advertising firm, have finally made it to the pinnacle of American commercialism: the Super Bowl. Unsurprisingly, the boys showed up between plays at the big game to pitch Totino’s Pizza Rolls, a snack product that …
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