Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show was filled with symbolism—from Uncle Sam(uel L. Jackson) to a crip walking Serena Williams—but perhaps the most powerful symbol on stage was not even planned,

During the halftime show at the 2025 Super Bowl in New Orleans last night, a backing dancer for Kendrick Lamar staged a protest some may have missed on the TV broadcast.

Lamar and much of the hip hop world represent the antithesis of opposition to big business and capitalism. Hip hop is big business.