The Compton rapper's performance, which featured Samuel L. Jackson, SZA, Mustard and Serena Williams, vacillated between deference to and defiance of expectations.

The enthusiastic response to his music has been driven in part by the perception that he’s a political vessel. But what exactly are his politics?

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