Drake breaks silence after Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show diss and responds to rival’s ‘a minor’ chain

DRAKE has responded to the Super Bowl after Kendrick Lamar shaded the fellow rapper in his halftime performance. Kendrick, 37, wowed fans when he took to the stage at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans on Sunday night. The rapper even used the platform as an opportunity to slam his rival - with Drake now responding. Sharing some snaps of him performing on-stage, Drake looked full of energy as he performed for thousands.

He captioned the slew of snaps on Instagram: "$$$inema.". Many of the snaps were of Drake on-stage singing and rapping to masses of adoring fans. One snap, though, was of his bespoke OVO owl chain for Drake which boasts a kilo of gold and over 100 carats of Asscher cut diamonds. The necklace, which represents his record label was designed by Jason Arasheben. OVO stands for “October’s Very Own” and is named after Drake’s birth month.

Commenting on the snaps, one person said he was "undefeated" while another added: "Let them watch and enjoy.". A third person said: "Still on top!!". While a fourth added: "The GOAT.". "Numbers don’t lie..check the Spotify," penned a fifth. A sixth then added: "The boy.". While a seventh said: "I mean I say hats off for a solid effort, but we didn’t flinch for a second we got our s*** together…". This comes after Kendrick took to the stage during the Super Bowl halftime slot to perform his infamous Drake diss track Not Like Us.

On October 6, 2023, Drake and J. Cole released First Person Shooter, in which J. Cole claimed that himself, Drake, and Kendrick are the “big three” of hip-hop. On March 22, 2024, Kendrick responded to the claim of a "big three" in his verse on Metro Boomin and Future’s song Like That, where he instead stated, “It’s just big me," and accused both rappers of sneak dissing. On April 5, 2024, J. Cole dropped his Kendrick diss track, 7 Minute Drill, in which he fired “warning shots” at the rapper as he accused the good kid, m.A.A.d city artist of seeking “attention” and slammed his latest music releases as “tragic.”.

But on April 7, 2024, two days after releasing the Kendrick diss, J. Cole retracted his statement and backed out of the feud, as he stated he felt pressured to respond because “the world wanna see blood.”. On April 13, 2024, Drake responded to Kendrick with Push Ups, which had lyrics ridiculing Kendrick's height and his mainstream collaborations with Taylor Swift and Maroon 5. The track also dissed rappers Future and Rick Ross and producer Metro Boomin.

On April 19, 2024, Drake dropped another diss track, Taylor Made Freestyle, that used AI-generated voices of Snoop Dogg and the late Tupac Shakur to pressure Kendrick to respond. On April 30, 2024, Kendrick dropped Euphoria, a six-minute diss track, in which he criticized Drake’s biracial identity, questioned the rapper’s ability as a father, and claimed that Drake is a “scam artist.". On May 1, 2024, Drake responded to Kendrick's diss by posting a clip from the 1999 film 10 Things I Hate About You on his Instagram Story in which Julia Stiles’ character Kat lists the reasons she hates Heath Ledger’s character Patrick - mirroring a Euphoria bar where Lamar provides reasons he hates Drake.

On May 3, 2024, Kendrick dropped a second Drake diss track, 6:16 in LA in which Kendrick alleges Drake’s own team is working against him as he rapped, “Everyone inside your team is whispering that you deserve it,” and stated Drake “can't Toosie Slide up out of this one.". After Drake responded with his diss track Family Matters, where he called accused Kendrick of infidelity, the Humble hitmaker would release Meet the Grahams, his fourth diss track against the Canadian rapper.

In Not Like Us, Kendrick slams his enemy Drake with the lyric: "Why you trollin' like a b***h? Ain't you tired? Trying to strike a chord and it's probably A minor.". And fans of the rapper quickly realized on the night that the "a" he wore around his neck was a jibe at Drake. Fans spotted how it was a reference to "A minor"- and were left in awe by the way he subtly shaded his enemy. Kendrick and Drake have been embroiled in a bitter and very public feud since 2023.