Super Bowl 2025: Kendrick Lamar performs Not Like Us and swipes at Drake legal action

Kendrick Lamar provided the halftime amusement astatine the 2025 Super Bowl successful America

Rapper Kendrick Lamar had the Super Bowl assemblage rapping on arsenic helium performed his diss way aimed astatine Drake.

Ahead of the song, Kendrick teased playing the rap way but cited Drake's ongoing suit implicit the song. However, ignoring immoderate imaginable backlash from Drake, Kendrick went connected to execute the song.

Not Like Us, released was released successful May past twelvemonth astatine the tallness of Lamar and Drake's feud and sees Kendrick impeach his Canadian rival of intersexual misconduct, describing the Hotline Bling hitmaker of being a "certified paedophile". The opus became the astir decorated opus successful Grammy Awards earlier this period acknowledgment to the diss way winning Kendrick 5 gongs.

Ahead of Kendrick's show astatine Caesars Superdome successful New Orleans, Louisiana this evening, determination had been speculation the Pulitzer Prize winning rapper wouldn't execute the deed way astatine the 2025 Super Bowl owed to ineligible concerns and broadcasting regulations.

In January this year, Drake decided to caput to a lawyer's bureau alternatively than the workplace and began ineligible enactment regarding Kendrick's diss tracks. The dad-of-one, 38, launched a national defamation suit against his euphony statement implicit Kendrick's Grammy Award winning hit.

The Canadian rapper is taking Universal Music Group to court, alleging they are portion of spreading a "false and malicious narrative" that helium is simply a paedophile. According to the tribunal documents, Drake asserts that the statement was alert that Kendrick's way would diagnostic lyrics and visuals successful a euphony video that made this accusation against him.

He accuses UMG of permitting "'inflammatory and shocking allegations" due to the fact that the opus was a lucrative accidental for them. Drake besides contends that the statement promoted "Not Like Us" knowing it would diminish the worth of his ain euphony and fortify their presumption successful aboriginal declaration talks.

The suit claims UMG paid a 3rd enactment to artificially inflate Lamar's song's streams by astatine slightest 30 cardinal utilizing bots. Furthermore, the institution is accused of engaging successful a "pay for play" strategy with astatine slightest 1 vigor promoter and dubbing the way a "chart topper" based connected fraudulent figures.

However, the suit clarifies that it is not targeting Lamar himself. "This suit is not astir the creator who created Not Like Us," the suit declares. "It is, instead, wholly astir UMG, the euphony institution that decided to publish, promote, exploit, and monetize" a opus containing untrue allegations.

Drake has expressed concerns implicit his safety, citing the galore shootings adjacent oregon astatine his Toronto mansion since the merchandise of a arguable song. The track, Not Like Us, dominated the charts for 21 weeks connected the Billboard Hot Rap songs and 22 weeks connected the Billboard Hot 100 chart, hitting the fig 1 spot doubly and racking up implicit 914 cardinal plays connected Spotify.

A spokesperson for UMG dismissed Drake's claims arsenic "offensive and untrue", stating: "The proposition that UMG would bash thing to undermine immoderate of its artists is violative and untrue. We employment the highest ethical practices successful our selling and promotional campaigns. 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."

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