How Drake Responded to Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Diss

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The Super Bowl is usually about football, but this year, Kendrick Lamar made halftime personal.

As the Philadelphia Eagles crushed the Kansas City Chiefs’ three-peat dreams with a 40-22 victory, the 37-year-old “B****, Don’t Kill My Vibe” rapper seized the halftime stage to throw some not-so-subtle jabs at his rival, Drake.

Dropping lines straight from “Not Like Us” and flashing a grin into the camera, it was clear he wasn’t holding back. And while Drake, 38, didn’t fire back directly, he did make a small but noticeable tweak during his next show.

Performing in Melbourne on Monday, February 10, the Degrassi alum switched up a line in his song “Knife Talk” that originally said, “Beef is live, spoiler alert — this n***a dies.” Instead, he rapped, “Beef is live, spoiler alert — I never die.”

The change didn’t go unnoticed. Footage of the moment quickly found its way onto X (formerly Twitter), and the reactions were mixed.

“Incoming ‘Drake won’t let the beef go’ comments meanwhile Kendrick does halftime show bringing up Drake,” one person wrote.

“Let them know king!🙌🏾🙌🏾” another said.

“A diss song at the Super Bowl is Nasty Nasty work,” someone else noted.

“Beef is alive? That boy got demolished,” another pointed out.

Lamar and Drake’s beef goes way back. It all started in 2013 when Lamar called out several rappers — including Drake — on his verse in Big Sean’s “Control.” They traded subtle shots in their music for a while, but things heated up in 2023 after Drake and J. Cole referred to themselves and Lamar as the “big three” of rap. Lamar didn’t agree and made that clear on Future and Metro Boomin’s track “Like That.”

The feud also escalated outside of music — Drake is currently suing Universal Music Group, accusing the label of helping promote “Not Like Us” and profiting off of it.