Kendrick Lamar and Drake’s rap beef rages on as fans fume over new statement

Assist for Kendrick Lamar continues to develop amidst his ongoing rap feud with Drake.

The dispute started in 2024 when the 2 artists began buying and selling barbs by means of diss tracks, nevertheless it was Kendrick’s Not Like Us that actually left a mark.

Within the tune, Kendrick raps, “Say Drake, I hear you want ’em younger,” after which references Drake’s album Licensed Lover Boy with the road, “Licensed Lover Boy? Licensed pedophiles.”

In addition to profitable 5 main awards on the 2025 Grammys, Not Like Us rapidly grew to become a cultural phenomenon, amassing over a billion performs on Spotify and different platforms.

Then, in September 2024, Kendrick was introduced because the headliner for the enduring Tremendous Bowl halftime present, sparking hypothesis about whether or not he would carry out the controversial monitor.

Previous to the massive sport, Drake’s authorized workforce issued a scathing assertion to the New York Instances criticizing Common Music Group (UMG): “UMG is masquerading as a champion of creative freedom by calling its actions merely ‘leisure’, however there may be nothing entertaining about pedophilia or baby abuse in the actual world.”

They continued by asserting that forthcoming proof “will expose UMG’s gross prioritization of its personal company earnings and govt bonuses over its solely signed artists’ well-being and the reality.”

The brand new assertion sparked intense reactions on social media.

Redditor @TfnR commented, “All UMG must say to that is ‘We allow you to launch a tune saying Kendrick beats his spouse. Is home abuse entertaining? How is that this totally different?”

Echoing that sentiment was @dosgatitas, who added: “No no no, in fact not, there’s leisure in exposing and burying pedophiles. Ain’t you drained?”

One other voice within the debate was @Haunting-Detail2025 who remarked on the irony: “The irony of Drake incessantly getting referred to as out for not being an genuine hip hop voice or from the neighborhood adopted by him responding to a rap diss by suing his document label isn’t misplaced and completely hilarious.”

Throughout his act, Kendrick approached a cluster of dancers stating, “I wanna carry out their favourite tune, however you already know they like to sue,” after which, whereas a snippet from Not Like Us echoed within the venue, he adopted up with, “Yeah, that tune, oh possibly I am going to give it some thought.”

In the end, Kendrick selected to weave Not Like Us into his repertoire, but fastidiously averted vocalizing the contentious traces.