Perhaps Kendrick Lamar was speaking to the present and the future when he said during his Super Bowl halftime performance months back that “the revolution ‘bout to be televised.”
The announcement Sunday that superstar Puerto Rican rapper and singer Bad Bunny will headline the next Super Bowl halftime show marks the second time in a row that the National Football League has co-signed an artist who is deemed “controversial” by some of the league’s supporters.
Lamar, a rapper from Compton, California, angered some conservative viewers with the political symbolism he utilized during his performance at Super Bowl LIX in February.
Some of the costumes, choreography and Lamar’s lyrics referenced systemic inequality and racism in the United States, all while the game was attended by President Donald Trump.
But while Lamar has mostly used his art to express his sentiments, Bad Bunny has been more overt about his dissatisfaction with the current administration.
In 2024, he endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris in her campaign for the presidency against Trump. He reposted a video of Harris in a speech referencing Trump’s leadership during his first term in office after Puerto Rico was devastated by Hurricane Maria in 2017.
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The music video for Bad Bunny’s single “NUEVAYol” took aim at some of Trump’s harsher policies, while also paying tribute to the artist’s native Puerto Rico.
Ocasio recently told i-D magazine that he purposely did not include the continental United States in his 2025-2026 concert tour out of fear that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) could potentially raid the concert venues.
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