Standing on the hood of a Buick Grand National GNX (after which Lamar named his most recent album, “GNX”), in a sea of dancers, a man clad in black sweats unfurled the Palestinian and Sudanese flags.

But the stunning setlist was not without controversy, as eagle-eyed viewers spotted a Palestine flag that was unfurled by someone in the mass of people dancing on all sides of K-Dot.

NEW ORLEANS — A performer who was part of Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show was detained by security after waving the Sudanese flag and Palestinian flag together with the words “Sudan” and “Gaza” written on them toward the end of the performance, the NFL said.

During the halftime show at the 2025 Super Bowl in New Orleans last night, a backing dancer for Kendrick Lamar staged a protest some may have missed on the TV broadcast.

Are you going to be a coward?” Zül-Qarnain Nantambu asked himself before taking the field for Kendrick Lamar’s show. “Are you going to take a stand?”

The performer who unveiled a flag during Kendrick Lamar's Halftime Show at the Super Bowl has been banned from NFL games and stadiums for life.

Demonstrator detained after unfurling flag with the words ‘Gaza’ and ‘Sudan’ at Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans.

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Kendrick Lamar's dancer Zül-Qarnain Nantambu has broken his silence about why he unfurled a Palestine-Sudan flag during the Super Bowl halftime show.

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