Game Over: Kendrick Lamar Roasts Drake At Super Bowl

Kendrick Lamar didn’t maintain again his international smash Drake diss monitor “Not Like Us” from the set record of his Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present efficiency final night time (Feb. 8) on the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, saving it for the second to final of his 11 songs and particularly mentioning his Canadian rival by title.

The rapper started his set perched on a classic black Buick GNX, which shares its title with Lamar’s shock 2024 album, and prowled a stage laid out like a sport board and populated by dancers carrying vibrant crimson, white and blue outfits. Actor Samuel L. Jackson appeared at a number of factors in full classic patriotic costume as “Uncle Sam,” declaring, “that is the nice American sport.”

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Decked out in denims, a blue varsity jacket and a number of other glittering chains, Lamar put his singular verbal dexterity on full show as he ran by a quick portion of unreleased GNX track informally dubbed “Our bodies,” “squabble up,” “HUMBLE,” “euphoria,” “man on the backyard” and “peeakboo,” the latter two of which had by no means been carried out stay.

SZA, who will be a part of Lamar on an intensive international stadium tour this yr, made an unannounced look for “luther” and their hit Black Panther collaboration “All of the Stars,” however the anticipation was constructing towards “Not Like Us,” which got here subsequent.

The rapper had earlier teased the drama, which prompted Drake to file a defamation lawsuit towards Common Music within the wake of the summer season launch of “Not Like Us.” “I need to carry out their favourite track, however you realize they like to sue,” he mentioned because the track started, continuing to skip the controversial time period “pedophile” however inducing an audible viewers singalong for the lyric “tryna ring a bell and it’s in all probability A minor.”

So as to add insult to damage, the digicam minimize to a fast shot of Drake’s ex-girlfriend, tennis legend Serena Williams, dancing on the aspect of the stage. Hammering the purpose house, Lamar closed the efficiency with “television off,” as lights on the prime of the stadium unmistakably spelled out “sport over.”