Kendrick Lamar may be having the perfect seven-day stretch in hip-hop historical past. A sweep on the Grammy Awards, together with 5 wins for “Not Like Us,” an epic displaying on the 2025 Tremendous Bowl halftime present. Each of which appeared to come back at Drake‘s expense. After Ok-Dot’s grand energy strikes, can the meat formally be over now?
Ok-Dot turned the primary solo rapper to headline the halftime present of the Large Recreation on Sunday (Feb. 9), and dissapoint he didn’t. Throughout a pre-Tremendous Bowl interview with Apple Music on Feb. 6, Dot stated followers may count on “storytelling” from his present. The Compton, Calif. rapper adopted by with a theme of The Nice American Recreation, which featured narration from actor Samuel L. Jackson dressed up like Uncle Sam, an ensemble of dancers wearing purple, white and blue and a set akin to a sport controller pad.
Kendrick bought the operate leaping with the GNX theme tune, “Squabble Up,” “Humble” and DNA.” Then the Drake eulogy began.
Ok-Dot slid the Drake diss tune “Euphoria” into the medley earlier than addressing the woolly mammoth within the closet.
“I wanna carry out they favourite tune,” Kendrick instructed the gang, referencing “Not Like Us.” “However you recognize they like to sue. Yeah that tune. what, I am going to give it some thought.”
Three songs later, Kendrick the dropped bomb, performing an abridged model of “Not Like Us,” full with Drake callouts, to 120 million followers worldwide.
“Say, Drake, I hear you want ’em younger/You higher not ever go to cell block one,” he rapped.
Ok-Dot censored the “licensed lover boy, licensed pedophile” line, however the harm was performed. Including insult to damage, Serena Williams was onstage Crip-walking and seemingly 70,000 followers on the Caesars Tremendous Dome in New Orleans joined in unison to scream “A-minoooooooooor.”
Hip-hop is hailing the present as masterful. Drake has once more grow to be the butt of jokes on social media.
There’s nothing else Ok-Dot can do to crush Drake’s soul at this level. We’re 11 months into the general public beef between the 2 rap megastars, which began final March when Kendrick dissed Drake on the observe “Like That.” And publish “Not Like Us,” Ok-Dot has been doing nothing however put numbers on the boards whereas Drake can seemingly solely watch from the sideline. His solely protection being to beg the ref for a flagrant foul within the type of a lawsuit.
In a current interview, Ye opined that Kendrick Lamar killed Drake on the heels of Dot’s huge evening on the Grammys. He additionally warned that Drake should not be counted out. “You may’t ever depend out Steph Curry. That man would possibly get 200 factors in a single tune for one thing,” Ye stated.
It may be too late for that. No less than on this conflict of the titans.
Kendrick closed his present by seemingly breaking the fourth wall with a understanding nod. The phrases “Recreation Over” had been displayed in lights. It was a becoming ending to what ought to formally put a nail within the coffin on the Drake beef.