{"id":21801,"date":"2025-02-15T14:40:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T14:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=21801"},"modified":"2025-02-15T14:40:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T14:40:49","slug":"kid-rock-tells-bill-maher-kendrick-lamar-played-super-bowl-because-of-kaepernick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=21801","title":{"rendered":"Kid Rock Tells Bill Maher Kendrick Lamar Played Super Bowl Because of Kaepernick"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"article__header--headline-fragments\"><span class=\"article__header--hf1 text-uppercase h3\">Kid Rock<\/span><span class=\"article__header--hf2 text-uppercase h1\">Kendrick Turned DEI On It&#8217;s Head for Super Bowl Halftime<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/bill-maher\/\"><strong>Bill Maher<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0has interesting guest fellows &#8212; case in point,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/kid-rock\/\"><strong>Kid Rock<\/strong><\/a>, who called out\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/jay-z\/\"><strong>Jay-Z<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and the NFL for a Halftime show for being pretty much exclusionary &#8212; of white entertainers.<\/p>\n<p>Kid came out of the gate saying\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/kendrick-lamar\/\"><strong>Kendrick Lamar<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0wasn&#8217;t his cup of tea, but he has mad respect for him because he&#8217;s unapologetic about his craft. Kendrick doesn&#8217;t care if a swath of the country isn&#8217;t into him or even doesn&#8217;t like him &#8230; he does what he does, just like K.R. Kid Rock celebrated Kendrick, saying he doesn&#8217;t give a &#8220;frog&#8217;s fat ass&#8221; what people think.<\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-3ce85fc6afebdbaef22066e9cbddb501\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-image-block canvas-image-block-permalink canvas-image-block--default  \">\n<div class=\"image-block\">\n<div class=\"img-wrapper\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/imagez.tmz.com\/image\/10\/4by3\/2023\/04\/25\/104306ae670c4592bb31d5923afb3205_md.jpg\" alt=\"Colin Kaepernick\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"image-block__card-footer\"><span class=\"media-credit image-block__media-credit\">Getty<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-4c26b8e39d772f14a5428d6c1c6174f8\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default  \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\">But, then things turned &#8230; Kid Rock said were it not for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/colin-kaepernick\/\"><strong>Colin Kaepernick<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0taking a knee, Kendrick would never have ended up center stage at the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-b269f87da3d01b643f90a89f863c498f\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default  \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\">Kid Rock said, \u201cI\u2019ve heard nobody answer this question: how did he get that gig? Jay-Z. What happened there? I think Jay-Z and Kendrick Lamar should both send Colin Kaepernick a Bundt cake and a six-pack of beer and a \u2018thank you\u2019 note with a bunch of money in it, because without him kneeling and getting everyone\u2019s panties in a bunch over the anthem, self-included, I don\u2019t think that happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-3964f4044fb05b0de22890c11ffbaa62\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-video-block canvas-video-block-permalink canvas-video-block--default  \">\n<div class=\"video-block\">\n<div class=\"ratio ratio-16x9\">\n<div id=\"video-player-87a842bf-d26e-4fce-8f90-bf0eefa8e321-1347080556-progress-spinner\" class=\"ratio-item video-block__backdrop above\">And then, Kid R. zeroed in, saying this was a case of D.E.I. turned on its head &#8230; \u201cIt\u2019s like all Black people or all people of color speaking to his crowd in the hood, Black people. It was like the most exclusive [exclusionary] thing ever and I\u2019m like, \u2018Fuck yeah, that\u2019s awesome.\u2019 I\u2019m laughing my ass off.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article__blocks clearfix\">\n<section id=\"cb-804cccb172ef933048259de3e9a6d648\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default  canvas-block-is-last \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\">Bill &#8212; who&#8217;s never at a loss for words &#8212; struggled with that one!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-12\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kid RockKendrick Turned DEI On It&#8217;s Head for Super Bowl Halftime Bill Maher\u00a0has interesting guest fellows &#8212; case in point,\u00a0Kid Rock, who called out\u00a0Jay-Z\u00a0and the NFL for a Halftime show &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21803,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21801\/revisions\/21803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}