Invoice Maher was visibly shocked Friday on HBO’s “Real Time” when conservative visitor Child Rock expressed “respect” for rapper Kendrick Lamar and his Tremendous Bowl halftime efficiency and, regardless of noting that it “wasn’t my cup of tea,” praised the present’s ethos.
“I’m like, this kid pretty much came out figuratively with both middle fingers in the air, doing what he does for the people who love what he does, unapologetically,” Rock advised Maher. “And I don’t think he gives a frog’s fat ass what anyone thinks about it.”
“So I go, huh, it’s pretty much how I built my entire career,” he continued. “I gotta respect it.”
Maher, who presumably anticipated the outspoken Trump voter to have a wildly totally different opinion on the occasion, was visibly shocked by Rock’s response to the present and responded, “Yeah, OK! There we go, common ground.”
Rock’s response may come as a shock to those that solely know him because the pro-Trump rocker who used a machine gun on stacks of Bud Mild after a transgender influencer endorsed the American beer. However he began his profession as a rapper within the Nineties.
“I grew up loving, emulating all things hip-hop,” Rock, born Robert Ritchie, advised Maher on Friday. “Breakdancing, DJing, graffiti, rapping, and so I understand the culture a little bit more than most. And when I say most, of course, I mean white people.”
Whereas he didn’t bash the halftime set — like fellow conservatives who deemed the present “Satanic” or questioned who “this Kendall Lamar” even is — Rock shared his ideas on variety, fairness and inclusion inside NFL tradition throughout a second Donald Trump presidency.
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Rock argued Lamar was solely picked to carry out as a result of the NFL employed Jay-Z as “live music entertainment strategist” after pushing out soccer star Colin Kaepernick for protesting police brutality in 2016.
However Lamar’s present was “the epitome of DEI blowing up,” he stated.
“[The] NFL is all this DEI, ‘end racism,’ all this stuff, they got Jay-Z in there booking this — and Kendrick Lamar goes out there and basically turns DEI into an IED,” Rock advised Maher. “It’s all Black people, or people of color, speaking to his crowd in the hood. Black people. It was like, the most exclusive thing ever.”
“I’m like, ‘Fuck yeah, that’s awesome,’” he nonetheless added. “I’m laughing my ass off.”
