Samuel L. Jackson Claims He Didn’t Understand Kendrick Lamar’s Halftime Show Until Rehearsal

Earlier this week, Samuel L. Jackson sat down with the Mad Sad Bad podcast. In a shocking revelation, the veteran actor revealed he didn’t understand Kendrick Lamar’s intention behind the halftime show until dress rehearsal.

“I didn’t know what they were doing,” he tells host Paloma Faith. “It was kinda trippy because it wasn’t until dress rehearsal that when I looked up, and I looked on that stage, and I go, ‘Oh sh*t, that’s a flag. Ah, f*ck, we’re being revolutionaries.’ Because I wasn’t listening or paying attention.”

Being a “revolutionary” isn’t entirely foreign to Jackson. Along with being an award-winning actor, he has a long history as a civil rights activist — so much so that Jackson even served as a pallbearer at Martin Luther King Jr.’s funeral. He continued, “Something about me or my persona has put me in the right place at the right time… in a lot of different moments in my life. And I have to accept that that’s what I’m meant to be sometimes: an agent of change, whether I know it or not.”

He added, “I wanna be on the right side of history in terms of what’s going on, and sometimes it’s not by choice.”

SiR Says Kendrick Lamar And Drake’s Beef Caused His Show To Be Cancelled

In other Kendrick Lamar news, TDE singer SiR was unfortunately caught in the middle of Kendrick Lamar and Drake’s feud, and it ultimately led to a scheduled concert in Toronto last year being canceled.

“So the venue in Toronto, which was partially owned by Drake, canceled the show completely,” Sir revealed to the crowd. “Then when we tried to switch venues, the next venue was like, ‘Nah, we ain’t f*cking with it, I ain’t taking no motherf*cking chance.”

At the time of the show’s cancellation, SiR took to Instagram to apologize to fans for the unfortunate situation.

“So sorry to my Toronto fans. The show has been canceled. We’re working on rescheduling for a later date,” he wrote on social media. “For those wondering, we sold that show out. It was canceled by the venue. Not sure why. My apologies again to those that came just to see me.”

However, SiR wasn’t the only Top Dawg Entertainment artist to have trouble selling out shows in Canada. Last year, ScHoolboy Q had one of his shows in Toronto at the height of K-Dot and Drake’s war of words.