Everybody knew it was coming, the moment Kendrick Lamar would perform his smash hit and Drake diss Not Like Us in front of the world for the Super Bowl halftime show. So, naturally, Lamar did something to make people a little less sure. He teased the song in the middle of his set with a joke about lawsuits and skipped to another song.
“I want to perform their favorite song, but you know they love to sue,” Lamar said.
"I want to perform their favorite song, but you know they love to sue" – Kendrick Lamar pic.twitter.com/x1Ke3W3NLr
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) February 10, 2025
The moment made for a perfect troll job of his adversary, who filed a lawsuit against Universal Music Group for its promotion of the song. It also built anticipation for the moment when he finally performed it. Because of course he wasn’t going to not do his biggest song on the Super Bowl stage.
And even then, he teased whether or not he would actually do it.
Kendrick Lamar performing “Not Like Us” and calling Drake a p*do in front of 100M viewers live at the Super Bowl is going down in history pic.twitter.com/vluJ0FOziG
— King Wow (@wowthatshiphop) February 10, 2025
Alas, he did it. And boy did he do it. The whole crowd was singing
The tease wasn’t the only way he trolled Drake. He also wore a lower-case “a” chain that could have been a nod to the “a minor” lyric in the song — which the whole crowd sang aloud with him. Finally, Lamar was joined on stage by a dancing Serena Williams, who has her own little history with Drake.
