NFL Fans React To Kendrick Lamar Halftime Show Complaints
03/27/2025 09:57 AM
It's been a month-and-a-half since Super Bowl LIX and the FCC has apparently finished dealing with all of the MANY complaints it received about Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show.
According to The Hill, a whopping 125 complaints were made to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) with most of the complaints asserting that the performance was "racist" due to a lack of white people on stage alongside Lamar.
"Kendrick Lamar's halftime performance at Super Bowl LIX drew more than 120 complaints to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), with the majority objecting to the rapper's language and some dubbing it 'racist' because 'not one white person' was seen onstage," the outlet reported.
"In total, 125 viewers sent complaints to the FCC in the wake of Lamar's performance last month as the Philadelphia Eagles took on the Kansas City Chiefs at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, according to records obtained this week by The Hill as part of a Freedom of Information Act request."
Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl Halftime performance received 125 FCC complaints, with one viewer saying they "felt discriminated against" → https://t.co/1NnapPY9Kspic.twitter.com/yq2w5gPKeC
— CONSEQUENCE (@consequence) March 27, 2025
News of these complaints drew a collective eyeroll from users on social media, who largely dismissed them as old racists who either hate black people or voted for President Trump in the last election:
"The number of people who voted for Trump because they thought it would mean non-white people magically disappearing from public life was definitely not zero," one user remarked in response to the report.
"What a bunch of (expletive) snowflakes. Just enjoy the performance you nutcases," wrote another.
"Oh no there were black people on my TV! We all know who these losers voted for."
"125 racist drunk magats seems low. Also Drake I guess, whoever that is. That was probably my first time hearing Lamar and thought it was a great show. That Weekend dude was (expletive) terrible though I should call the FCC.
"Drake complained 125 times."
Jokes aside, the Kendrick Lamar Super Bowl halftime show still didn't get a fraction of the amount that the infamous Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson show got.
Jackson's infamous "wardrobe malfunctions" resulted in over 500,000 FCC complaints.
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