Not a good evening for Drake – Rolling Stone

On the occasion of his appearance at the Super Bowl 2025, many wondered whether the NFL Kendrick Lamar might censor. The focus of the discussion was Lamar’s grammy-winning drake discourse “Not Like Us”. Drake, who, due to the song, in which he was presented as a pedophile – that he was presented as a pedophile, should have been anything but pleased that evening – because “Not Like Us” was expected to be the song of the evening.

When Kendrick Lamar finally entered the stage in New Orleans on February 9, 2025, it was clear that the focus would be on the “Not Like Us” track. Of course, it made sense to bring the song at the end of the set. After a snippet of the “GNX” teaser, Lamar opened the set with the piece “Squabble Up”-nine other pieces, including “Humble”, “DNA” and “Peekaboo”. As a guest star, Lamar had his colleague Sza with him, with whom he will soon go on tour. Drakes set was “moderated” by Samuel L. Jackson in the Uncle-Sam costume. “Too Loud! Too Reckless! To ghetto, ”Jackson called in between.

Kendrick Lamar: Once in the camera, please

Then the time had come – Lamar passed into “Not Like Us”. After a number of hints, everything is well planned. When the string instrumental sounded, he initially made an allusion to Drake’s complaint: “But you know they love to sue”. Anyone who thought that the Drake Diss would be suddenly waned or let go that evening was wrong. On the contrary. So the instrumental heard at the notorious line of text “Tryna Strike a Chord, but it’s probable A minor“Open to let the audience sing along. But that’s not all: as Lamar Drake with the text line “Say, Drake, I Hеar You Like ‘Em Young”, he looked directly into the camera and grinned.

The entire halftime performance can be seen here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdorky-13ak

Drake-Diss: Ex-girlfriend Serena Williams danced

For Drake, however, the shame was not over-because his ex-girlfriend, tennis superstar Serena Williams, was also on site. And she had her very own way to react to the allegations against her ex in the song: she danced as a cameo.

Super Bowl Halfttime Show: The Setlist by Kendrick Lamar:

1. “Gnx” teaser (snippet)
2. “Squabble up”
3. “Humble”
4. “DNA”
5. “Euphoria”
6. “Man at the Garden”
7. “Peekaboo”
8. “Luther” feat. Sza
9. “All the stars” feat. Sza
10. “Not like us”
11. “TV off”