The entire stadium sang the controversial “Not Like Us” line in unison.
Kendrick Lamar performs onstage during Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show at Caesars Superdome on Feb. 9, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Kendrick Lamar really did it. Much was said about whether or not the Compton rapper would perform his controversial diss song “Not Like Us” directed at Drake during his Super Bowl Halftime Show on Sunday (Feb. 9). Well, he did after teasing it throughout his performance, and when he finally decided to go for it, the entire Caesars Superdome in New Orleans went crazy — with attendees even singing the line “A-minor” together as if they were in a church choir.
The rapper didn’t perform it a bunch of times like he did at the “Pop Out,” and friends such as DeMar DeRozan and Russell Westbrook didn’t hit the field to dance along, but Lamar did add insult to injury by having Serena Williams make an appearance to c-walk as the song played. She did a pretty good job, too. Drake referenced the year he’s had during his early stops in Australia during his Anita Max Win Tour, going so far as to wearing a black hoodie with bullet holes in it and a trail of gun smoke.
Lamar’s Super Bowl 59 Halftime Show performance serves as victory lap after defeating Drake in what may be the most important rap battle of their generation, going No. 1 numerous times in 2024, winning five Grammys at the 2025 ceremony — including song of the year and record of the year — and capping things off at the Super Bowl in New Orleans.
Naturally, fans on X had a ball with both the lowercase “a” chain he wore, and with the crowd screaming the infamous “a-minor” line at the top of their lungs.
Check out some of our favorites below.
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“They Hit My Body Up, I’m Tired”
Remember when Jay-Z said that line on his “Grammy Family Freestyle“? That’s how Drake feels and he made it be known during one of his early stops in Australia when he wore a black hoodie complete with bullet holes and gunsmoke, telling the crowd, “The year is now 2025, and Drizzy Drake is very much still alive.”
Here, a user on X reminds us of his Wheelchair Jimmy days.
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My Serena
Like My Shayla … get it?
Dot getting Serena to walk like that during the Super Bowl is diabolical, as the kids say.
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First the Grammys, Now This
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Double Aunt Andre
The chain could mean pgLang or “a-minor,” as one post on X pointed out. Our guess is as good as yours. That’s kinda how double entendres work.
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Victory Lap
As one X user noted along with a clip of “Not Like Us” at the Super Bowl, “VICTORY LAP OF THE CENTURY.”
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Comeback Season
Witnessing Drake get off the map after this is going to be interesting.
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Crash Bandicoot
Drake may very well be in Australia punching the air right now. One X user shared a clip from Breaking Bad of Walter White screaming, captioning the clip, “whole stadium just said ‘A Minor’ in unison. i know Drake was at home like this”
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Crazy, Scary, Spooky, Hilarious
Drake, please turn the “TV Off.”
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Hater of the Year
There’s levels to hating and Kendrick is on Super Saiyan.
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Tinfoil X
Interesting choice there by whoever controls those buttons. “the nfl unmuting the crowd during the ‘a minor’ part of not like us is actually brutal,” one viewer posted on X along with a clip of the moment.
This story originally appeared on Billboard
