During his history-making Super Bowl halftime performance, Kendrick Lamar wore a pair of Nike Air DT Max ’96s, a $68,000 Rahaminov brooch, and a pair of light-wash flare jeans. Delightfully, it was the jeans that caught him the most (sartorial) attention. Amongst the many reactions to Lamar’s performance, a handful of topics came up repeatedly: the rapper’s choice to directly call out Drake, the target of his now-ubiquitous diss track “Not Like Us”; Serena Williams and SZA joining him onstage; and the aforementioned jeans.
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and he did all that in KICK FLARES!
— hunter harris (@hunteryharris) February 10, 2025
imagine your opp being a cutie patootie in flared jeans like kendrick lamar pic.twitter.com/Bm5mZTC9ll
— College Student (@ColIegeStudent) February 10, 2025
can’t believe kendrick did all that in the most hannah montana lookin bootcut jeans i’ve seen in years
— julia (@gingahninjaa) February 10, 2025
Kendrick has boot cut jeans, a 5’5 frame, and a hater mentality and I respect that
— Diva (@littledivaalert) February 10, 2025
kendrick rly a bad bitch in these jeans i need them can he drop a link pic.twitter.com/riHZ6UwHdt
— chris kreider respecter (@jonmoxIeys) February 10, 2025
Kendrick lookin a lil thicc in these boot cut baby phat jeans
— Meech (@MediumSizeMeech) February 10, 2025
The flare jeans on Lamar—who stands at 5’5”—quickly went viral, with one user calling the halftime show the “best ad for jeans I’ve seen in a while.”
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