Fox News Host Doesn’t Get How This Kendrick Lamar Guy Won ‘All These Grammars’

Jeanine Pirro “didn’t get” Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show — or apparently how to properly pronounce words.

On Monday’s episode of “The Five,” the network’s legal analyst decided to blast the “Not Like Us” rapper’s performance Sunday, and her hot take was pretty shallow.

“I want to talk about the halftime show,” Pirro said in a clip obtained by Mediaite. “Now, I got to tell you, what a nightmare. I kept sitting there saying, ‘You know, maybe I just don’t get this guy.’”

She continued, “Then I find out there’s this subplot, there’s this drama with Drake. And, you know, he can do a concert. This guy, Ken, um, uh, Kendall Lamar.”

“Kendrick,” Pirro’s co-host Jessica Tarlov interjected.

But Pirro kept going without correcting her misidentification.

“And he won all these Grammars,” Pirro said, referring to the “Alright” rapper’s 22 Grammys, five of which he won earlier this month — and eliciting giggles from her fellow panelists for butchering the pronunciation of the prestigious award show.

“But, you know, we had Usher. We had The Weeknd, we had Beyoncé, and we had Rihanna. I mean, we had performers,” Pirro added. “I don’t know what the hell this guy was doing, but I didn’t get it.”

Pirro’s criticism echoed many Super Bowl fans’ gripes about Lamar’s halftime show. Some were disappointed that his performance lacked the typical over-the-top “proud to be an American” spectacle that viewers are accustomed to seeing during the Super Bowl.

And although Lamar certainly seemed to have a whole lot of fun dragging Drake on a national stage, his beef with the Canadian rapper wasn’t really the “subplot” of his performance — at least according to K-Dot’s fans.

They say that the underlying statement the Pulitzer Prize-winning artist was trying to make during his more somber and subtle performance was political. (Unfortunately, President Donald Trump, who was in attendance at the game, left before Lamar’s performance ended.)

Lamar’s performance began with a close-up of a beaming Samuel. L Jackson dressed as Uncle Sam, seemingly representing the razzle-dazzle patriotism that Super Bowl fans expect to see during the halftime show. Jackson’s Uncle Sam acted as an emcee throughout Lamar’s performance, and as The Hill pointed out, quickly revealed himself to be more of an Uncle Tom. The term, which stems from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” refers to Black Americans who turn their backs on their community to submit to white Americans.

At one point, the actor’s “Uncle Sam” told the rapper and his dancers that they were “too loud, too reckless, too ghetto,” conjuring stereotypes about Black Americans and hip-hop culture. Yet, instead of showing any semblance of shame for being too “ghetto,” Lamar and his dancers — who were all wearing red, white or blue jumpsuits — got into formation of the American flag. Although there’s several interpretations of what this could have meant, one suggestion is that Lamar and his dancers were being defiant, and saying that they too are Americans despite how Uncle Sam — or the current administration — may feel about it.

Lamar’s fans on X, formerly Twitter, also had thoughts about the political statements throughout his performance, which you can read below.