Kendrick Lamar wins 4 Grammys for Drake diss track ‘Not Like Us’

Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” has officially been crowned 2024’s Record of the Year astatine the 2025 Grammy Awards.

Earning 7 nominations total, 5 of them for the arguable diss track, Lamar took the Grammy signifier to judge his grant connected Sunday, acknowledging the metropolis of Los Angeles arsenic the inspiration for West Coast anthem.

“It was this cervix of the woods that held maine down since a young buck, you know, I was successful the workplace scrapping to constitute the champion raps. I can’t springiness capable acknowledgment to these places.”

One week earlier his upcoming Super Bowl halftime performance, Lamar besides acknowledged the wildfires that person devastated his city.

“The families successful the Palisades and Altadena. This is simply a existent testament that we volition proceed to reconstruct the city.”

In May of 2024, the deed opus was released successful effect to Drake, arsenic the 2 hep hop artists exchanged aggregate diss tracks backmost and distant past year.

Fans rapidly deemed “Not Like Us” the battle’s knockout blow, with the opus instantly becoming 1 of the biggest hits of the year, hitting No. 1 connected Billboard’s Hot 100.

In the aftermath of his infamous beef with Drake, Lamar was named the 2025 Super Bowl halftime performer, released his sixth workplace album, “GNX,” and announced a 23-concert circuit with R&B creator SZA starting successful April.

On  January 15, Drake, calved Aubrey Drake Graham, filed a suit successful national court for defamation and harassment against Universal Music Group, the statement down some rappers.

The “God’s Plan” rapper alleges that the grounds company’s promotion of “Not Like Us” is was astir “corporate greed implicit the information and well-being of its artists.”

Drake is accusing Universal of having “approved, published, and launched a run to make a viral deed retired of a rap track” that was “intended to convey the specific, unmistakable, and mendacious factual allegation that Drake is simply a transgression pedophile, and to suggest that the nationalist should edifice to vigilante justness successful response.”

Universal Music Group responded to the claims saying that Drake is utilizing the ineligible strategy to “weaponize the ineligible process to soundlessness an artist’s originative expression” and insists that “No magnitude of contrived and absurd ineligible arguments successful this pre-action submission tin disguise the information that fans take the euphony they privation to hear.”

Lamar has not publically commented connected the “Not Like Us” lawsuit.