Fans react to Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl PlayStation Easter Egg
Blog Andrew Joseph 10 Feb , 2025 0
Football fans spent months preparing for Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Lix halftime show, but no one expected to see the artist resurrected in Drake and the stadium-sized PlayStation Another excavation is performed in the festival eggs.
Most of the scenes of the rapper appear as expected. Despite the crowd cheering, thus making hits from records like DAMN and GNX, the appearance of stars like Samuel Jackson and SZA took the show to new heights. Of course, there are also many mentions of Lamar's infamous 2024 beef, but audiences don't expect Super Bowl performers to eventually choose to close the doors of the former Degrassi star. As the lights drop, the word “game” can be illuminated on the side of the stadium, while the stage shows the PlayStation’s iconic crosses, circles, triangles and square symbols.
Lamar's Super Bowl halftime was always seen as a victory circle when beef with Drake, but having Sony in the fight ended up closing the chapter in a grand manner, This is particularly cruel. While it's unclear why Butterfly artists chose to play PlayStation on seemingly channeled at the end of the year-long battle, music and game fans have entered social media to share their appreciation for mining. At least, once you realize that the stage is a big video game reference, Lamar has already done a great job of re-watching.
Kendrick Lamar brings out the PlayStation symbol and says “game” 😭https://t.co/mfkdej1f9g
– Us (@okami13_) February 10, 2025
Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl show has the PlayStation Controller button on the stage 😭😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/dnkrjgrdti
– radec (@realradec) February 10, 2025
Serena Williams, Samuel Jackson, PlayStation Reference, GNX, the whole stadium shouts “Aminorr” ugh ugh the Dancers are red, white and blue dancers, Sza? Thanks Kendrick. The revolution will be broadcast on television. pic.twitter.com/ckazfowric
-Nelly J.🇯🇲 (@xo__jenny) February 10, 2025
With Lamar's performance finally putting beef on the bed, it's hard not to consider the weekend as one of the biggest (and strange) ever in Playstation. In addition to its surprising position in the Super Bowl halftime show, the gaming company has found itself making headlines on Friday and Saturday mornings Players are locked to access PSN for a long time. This unplanned event keeps fans from playing any online champions for a whole day or so The infamous 2011 interruption. PlayStation was finally able to return PSN online later yesterday and said it would offer PlayStation and users a five-day subscription and put it on another five days.
Meanwhile, Super Bowl still has time to go, which means more trailers and commercials for the biggest movies and TV shows of 2025. Jurassic World Rebirth,,,,, Mission Impossible: The Final Estimationand Thunder*. For everything in this year’s big game, you can see our business overview here.
Is this a PlayStation reference? Kendrick was too early after PSN was interrupted. pic.twitter.com/o9dfae1dah
– Rob Keyes (@ROB_KEYES) February 10, 2025
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