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Kendrick Lamar didn’t let Drake off easy during his Super Bowl 2025 Halftime show. During his show at Super Bowl, Lamar performed ‘Not Like Us’; the popular diss track aimed at Drake amid their ongoing feud. Before performing the record of the year, Lamar said, ‘I want to play their favorite song, but you know they love to sue,’ likely referring to Drake’s lawsuit against his record label UMG, which was filed in January, alleging that it was defamation for accusing the ‘Hotline Bling’ rapper of ‘being a pedophile’ in ‘Not Like Us.’
During Lamar’s halftime performance, however, he noticeably did not say the word ‘pedophile’ where it appears in the song’s original lyrics.Moreover, Lamar brought out fellow Compton native Serena Williams, who briefly dated Drake around 2011, to dance during the performance.Bringing the house down at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans on Sunday, Lamar’s setlist looked like this: ‘GNX,’‘Squabble Up,’‘Humble,’‘DNA,’‘Euphoria,’‘Man at the Garden,’‘Peakaboo,’‘Luther,’‘All the Stars,’‘Not Like Us,’ and ‘TV Off.’ The Pulitzer-winning rapper brought surprise guests SZA, DJ Mustard, tennis legend Serena Williams, and Hollywood icon Samuel L Jackson.
Although the jury is out on whether Kendrick Lamar‘s halftime show was the best musical display at the biggest sports event of the year, there’s no doubt that a considerable faction of fans believe that he ‘ended’ his rival Drake on stage. On his part, the ‘Hotline Bling’ rapper’s legal team released a new statement about the ensuing legal battle regarding the song.
KENDRICK LAMAR JUST CALLED DRAKE A P*DO INFRONT OF ALL OF AMERICA AT THE SUPERBOWL 😭 pic.twitter.com/HVGN3K4R7M
— yoxic (@yoxics) February 10, 2025
‘UMG is masquerading as a champion of artistic freedom by calling its actions merely ‘entertainment’, but there is nothing entertaining about pedophilia or child abuse in the real world. We are confident that the evidence we will ultimately present at trial, including information we’ve already learned and continue to receive since filing the lawsuit, will expose UMG’s gross prioritization of its own corporate profits and executive bonuses over its exclusively signed artists’ well-being and the truth,’ the legal team said ahead of the halftime show, per NYT.
Drake previously sued the label Universal Music Group (also reps K.Dot) over the ‘Not Like Us’ release, citing its promotion as defamatory. The case, though not naming Lamar as a defendant, claimed that UMG pushed for the song’s promotion despite it spreading a ‘malicious narrative’ that Drake is a pedophile.Netizens instantly swung to X/Twitter, dropping their two cents on the matter. ‘Oh don’t end Drake like that on the Super Bowl stage,’ a user commented online. More reactions poured in, hitting back at the Canadian rapper as comments like ‘Drake getting destroyed on live National TV,’‘OH DRAKE YOU ARE OVER,’ and ‘Kendrick owns Drake’ took precedence on the micro-blogging platform.
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