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Kendrick Lamar performs for the Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show on Feb. 9, 2025, at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans.
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Kendrick Lamar Seemingly Trolls Drake With Mock Deposition Before Performing ‘Not Like Us’ on Tour
Lamar & SZA played the first date of their Grand National Tour on Saturday night in Minneapolis.
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Kendrick Lamar and SZA kicked off their 39-date Grand National stadium tour in Minneapolis over the weekend, and they’re already making headlines.
Before Lamar performed his smash single and Drake diss track “Not Like Us,” he decided to have a little fun by prefacing it with a skit poking fun at the Toronto rapper’s current UMG defamation lawsuit over the record giant’s promotion of the song.
The skit in question shows the Compton rapper sitting at a table being questioned about certain dates by what sounds like a lawyer. After being asked about May 4, 2024, and February 9, 2025 — the dates when he dropped “Not Like Us” and performed it at Super Bowl halftime, respectively — Dot answered, “I don’t keep up with dates.” He was then asked if the message Drake had for him at the end of “Family Matters” helped jog his memory. “Does this ring a bell? Drop, drop, drop,” the lawyer asked, right before the crowd exploded after hearing the “I see dead people” needle drop.
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Fans also pointed out that Lamar’s pgLang might have also referenced Lil Wayne‘s infamous deposition from 2012 over the controversial The Carter documentary release and one of 2Pac from 1995 where his lyrics were called into question.
Drake and his lawyers recently filed an updated version of their defamation lawsuit to include language alleging that Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime performance was malicious, saying, “It was the first, and will hopefully be the last, Super Bowl halftime show orchestrated to assassinate the character of another artist.”
For more on Kendrick and SZA’s first show, check out our list of their best moments at U.S. Bank Stadium.
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