In fact, Lamar looked right at the camera as he mentioned Drake’s name in the “Not Like Us” performance with a big smile on his face for all of the world to see. You want to talk about a victory lap? This is that.
Kendrick Lamar namedrops Drake on Live TV during his Super Bowl halftime performance of Not Like Us
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
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
The year 2024 saw one of the biggest rap beefs of all time go down with a VERY CLEAR WINNER.
It was Kendrick Lamar vs. Drake, with the two trading off songs that eventually led to Not Like Us, which is now a Grammy-winning Song of the Year, with everyone singing very NSFW lyrics that dump on Drake.
So where did all of this come from? For that, you need to read our guide to the Kendrick Lamar and Drake beef, but here’s a quick summary: Drake dropped First Person Shooter with J. Cole that called out Lamar, who then responded on WE DON’T TRUST YOU. Drake lobbed back, and then we got Not Like Us.
Drake traveled as far away as possible from Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl show.
The 2025 Super Bowl is finally here!
Fans are already starting to arrive in New Orleans and we expect the Caesars Superdome to fill up quickly as the Kansas City Chiefs look to finish off their three-peat. Only the Philadelphia Eagles stand in the way.
We already know both squads have plenty of celebrity fans cheering for them around the world and many have shown up to support their team during this Super Bowl run.
We also know one mega-star who won’t be there: Drake.
With Kendrick Lamar providing the halftime entertainment, his favorite foe won’t even be on North American soil, let alone in New Orleans for the big game.
Drake is currently on tour in Australia and has shows planned Sunday, February 9 and Monday, February 10. And honestly, whoever scheduled these concerts deserves a raise.
Going somewhere with a 14-hour time difference from New Orleans is exactly how you avoid watching the Super Bowl crowd sing along to every one of Kendrick’s diss tracks.
So, no. Drake is not at the Super Bowl and there’s a good chance he’ll either be sleeping or getting ready for a show when Kendrick takes the stage.
Imagine if the whole crowd sang “a minor” at the same time.
If he wants to break the internet, Kendrick Lamar has an easy opportunity. All he has to do is sing “Not Like Us” at the Super Bowl.
Kendrick, who recently won several Grammy Awards for his diss track about Drake heard around the world. Kendrick is diabolical and if he wanted to do it, the rapper could use his platform at the Super Bowl to put one last nail in this purely metaphorical coffin of this beef.
Even though he can play a few of his other diss tracks against Drake as well, this is the one that would make the most sense on that stage. It would make a memory for a lifetime he makes that decision.
Notre Dame has an opening at defensive coordinator. It might not have been what Irish fans wanted after the season their team just had, but that’s the nature of football. Coaches come and go for their next big payday.
Ash went 8-32 with the Scarlet Knights before being fired a month into the 2019 season without ever making a bowl game. Previously, he was the defensive coordinator at Ohio State, Arkansas, Wisconsin and Drake.
Ash isn’t the first candidate to emerge for this job, but those possibilities haven’t worked out. That doesn’t necessarily mean Ash will be the guy, but Irish fans better start thinking that he might be. Welcome to the world of offseason speculation.
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It doesn’t seem like Panthers RB Chuba Hubbard will be asking anyone to pass him the mustard.
Hold the mustard.
Carolina Panthers running back Chuba Hubbard has picked a side in the biggest rap beef since JAY-Z declared war on Nas. And, in an unsurprising development, Hubbard is backing his fellow Canadian Drake in his ongoing battle with Compton’s own Kendrick Lamar.
Here, courtesy of Carolina Blitz’s Vashti Hurt, is what Hubbard said about the matter on Wednesday . . .
“We OVO over here.”
Canadian native Chuba Hubbard wasn’t a big fan of the team using his image in a Kendrick Lamar inspired “Mustard” post. pic.twitter.com/CNeRXhKOR1
The “MUSTAAAARRRRRRRDDDDDD,” in reference to record producer DJ Mustard, is a popular line from Kendrick Lamar’s “tv off,” a hit song off his newly-released album, GNX. But, uh, it seems as though Hubbard wasn’t really a fan of the social media team’s work.
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You know who isn’t a winner? Drake. That’s who.
I don’t know if it’s possible that anyone thought he somehow “won” the beef with Kendrick Lamar, though I’d contend that beef isn’t something you win or lose. It’s just something you do.
But if there’s any doubt about who the bully is here in this tête-à-tête, yesterday should’ve erased it.
News broke that Drake is threatening to sue Universal Music Group and Spotify for allegedly artificially boosting streams on Kendrick Lamar’s bouncy-yet-visceral takedown track, “Not Like Us.”
Drake claims that UMG conspired with “paid and currently unknown parties” to use bots to “inflate the spread” of “Not Like Us” and paid influencers to boost the song on social media. The court documents also claim Universal used bots to spike the streaming numbers on Kendrick Lamar’s song directly and decreased the licensing fee on the song to allow the song to be recommended on streaming platforms more.
That was definitely all done organically, right? Riiiiiight. *wink wink*
It further cements the massive L the Canadian rapper took this summer. This is quite literally the equivalent of someone bringing their basketball to the park to play 1-on-1 and getting cooked so badly that, not only did they take their ball home, but they also called the police for some reason to report that their ankles had been stolen.
It’s corny. It doesn’t make any sense. “Not Like Us” is a great song regardless of streaming numbers. Those streams didn’t fill up the Forum in LA this summer and aren’t why people love that song so much. It’s legitimately a great song! No lawsuit is changing that.
Let this be a lesson to us all, folks. You reap what you sow. Don’t beg for the smoke if you’re not ready for it. And, if you get the smoke and it’s too much, please don’t contact your lawyers.
That’s wack.
Dan Hurley brings about his own downfall
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UConn’s Men’s hoops team lost its first game of the season on Monday to an unranked Memphis team that it probably had no business losing to in the Maui Invitational.
The Huskies’ comeback effort fell short, in part because of the team’s head coach.
One thing about Dan Hurley? That man is always angry. And he never hesitates to let everyone know it — especially the officials. But, on Monday in the waning moments of the overtime period, the refs had had enough.
With the game tied at 92-92, Hurley got a technical foul with 40 seconds left to go in the game. He absolutely lost it because of an over-the-back foul call. Memphis’ P.J. Carter hit both free throws and the Tigers never looked back.
You’ve got to take the good with the bad with Hurley. This is a guy who won back-to-back championships for the Huskies. He’s impressive.
But, man, when it gets bad its seems to get really bad. Can you imagine this guy coaching LeBron James? Sheesh.
In the battle of the brothers Harbaugh, John remains the top dog after grabbing yet another win over his brother with the Ravens 30-23 win over the Chargers.
To be fair to Jim, they’ve only coached against each other three times in their collective 20 years of NFL coaching experience (of which John has 15).
Can we just take a second to appreciate how great these dudes are? They’ve both coached in the Super Bowl, obviously against one another. John has a Lombardi trophy. Jim has a National Championship with Michigan. The Harbaughs are football royalty. It’s nice to see them match up like this.
There’s a chance they’ll match up again this winter in the playoffs. I’m hoping for it.
The more Harbowls, the better.
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Despite the fact that it’s felt like the so-called Drake Curse in the sports world has gotten broken over the years, he’s still taken some Ls when it’s come to massive bets.
We’ll see what the outcome is of this bet, but with so much money pouring in on Jake Paul and Mike Tyson, it’s no surprise the rapper threw in some money. To be specific, he bet $355,000 on … Mike Tyson to win!
The win would net him over a million bucks, so good luck to him.
While the new song doesn’t seem to be a direct Drake beef track like his last few, we’re sure that some of the track hints at the simmering beef between the two rap superstars.
Perhaps the new song is just a one-off track from an artist whose banner year has come off of them, or perhaps this is the start of an album rollout for Lamar.
His last album, Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, came out in 2022, which means he may hypothetically be ready to release a new record this year.
The new song comes in the same week that Lamar revealed he’ll play the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show in New Orleans.
You can hear the song below from Lamar’s Instagram page.
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MUSTAAAARRRRRRRDDDDDD 
