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Watch Kendrick Lamar’s College Football Playoff National Championship Halftime Show

NEW YORK, NY – SEPTEMBER 14: Kendrick Lamar performs onstage at Rihanna’s 3rd Annual Diamond Ball Benefitting The Clara Lionel Foundation at Cipriani Wall Street on September 14, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Clara Lionel Foundation)

|Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images

Kendrick Lamar performed at halftime of the College Football Playoff National Championship Game between the Georgia Bulldogs and the Alabama Crimson Tide in Atlanta tonight. Notably, it was the first-ever halftime show performance in college championship game history. He did "DNA.," "ELEMENT.," and "HUMBLE." before closing with "All The Stars," his new collaboration with SZA from the Black Panther soundtrack. Watch below.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=lhWJAXptPEc

Donald Trump was at the game, and although it's unclear if he watched Kendrick's performance, he was caught on camera seemingly not knowing all the words to the National Anthem (as performed by the Zac Brown Band). Watch that below.

Pres. Trump takes the field for the National Anthem ahead of tonight's college football championship game. https://t.co/JGVhB5xp1A pic.twitter.com/k4lFtrwXzI

— ABC News (@ABC) January 9, 2018

UPDATE: It seems Trump missed the show.

Per pooler @jdawsey1, @realDonaldTrump has left the college football championship as the halftime show starts

— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) January 9, 2018

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