Kai Cenat’s spilling tea about Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl show, saying the NFL might’ve boosted the crowd noise in the broadcast.
During a recent Twitch stream while watching the performance back, Cenat stopped to tell his viewers the crowd wasn’t as loud as it seemed on TV. “Oh my God, they [added] sound effects to the NFL shit, oh my fucking God,” he revealed. “Right, so right here, there was no sound. I just heard crowd sounds, oh my life, right here, there was no sounds. Fuck, they add crowd effects? I did not know that.”
Later in his stream, he doubled down, saying other attendees would back him up. “Crowd was making no noise,” he stated. “I’m just being honest. I was there.” Though he did mention the crowd went wild at certain moments – when Kendrick first hit the stage, during Samuel L. Jackson’s Uncle Sam intro, when SZA came out for their collabs, and during “Not Like Us.”
During his review of the show, Cenat suggested Kendrick’s setlist needed some changes. “The crowd was not good. They was just not fucking with the performance, like, up until ‘Not Like Us,'” he shared. “But what I will say is, the symbolism behind that performance was top tier. I’m not gonna lie. I paid attention to, like, the sets.”
When Rapcrd, a hip-hop and trading card news account, posted Cenat’s clip about the NFL’s alleged audio boost, Drake hit it with a like. That’s the closest we’ve seen to Drake responding, besides that pic he posted with Serena Williams’ ex-agent Jill Smoller.
While Cenat was on the fence about the show, another streamer went in harder. Plaqueboymax, who recently backed Drake and called out the music industry’s “weird” treatment of him, dropped a Super Bowl vlog showing his clear dislike of K Dot’s performance.
“Whether I like it or not, Kendrick Lamar will perform here,” he commented, before apparently sliding into Drake’s DMs with “aye this performance ass big bruh u good.” He later broke down his beef, saying Kendrick should’ve played his classics instead of letting the Drake drama define him. Though he admitted “Not Like Us” got the crowd hyped. “N***as was singing that ‘A minor’ shit like a bitch,” he said.
Meanwhile, Twitch star Pokimane pointed out that most hate seemed to come from white dudes. “I feel like if you watched his performance and really took it in, you’d be like ‘There are some underlying messages that the performance is trying to convey, especially during Black History Month,'” she said.
Big names like Jamie Foxx, Snoop Dogg, Ben Stiller, and K Dot’s boy Jay Rock all showed love online. Even Ye, who calls himself a “Nazi” these days, said he “really loved the show.” But when Kevin Durant got asked about it, he just dropped “It meant nothing to me.”
