DRAKE was on stage ranting about his exes shortly before his former girlfriends SZA and Serena Williams join Kendrick Lamar at the Super Bowl. Kendrick, 37, left fans with their jaws on the floor when he took to the stage at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans on Sunday night. The rapper performed his infamous Drake diss track amid the pair's ongoing and long-running feud. And Kendrick even took it one step further when he brought out two of Drake's ex-girlfriends.
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Drake's former partner Serena Williams and another of his exes, hitmaker SZA, joined Kendrick on stage at the Super Bowl, with them seeming detaching them from Drake and siding with his enemy. Just hours before Kendrick took the stage at the Super Bowl, Drake spoke out about unnamed exes during a performance in Australia on Sunday. Slamming exes in his brutal rant, Drake said: "If you ever, in your life, gave your time, gave your energy, gave your money, gave your heart, gave your soul, gave everything that you ever had to somebody, and they f***ing played with you and wasted your time, wasted your money...".
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Pacing around the stage, Drake went on: "I want you to all to turn up to this song. "This for all y'all exes and everybody think they can play you in their f***in' life!. "If you doin' better than your ex, I wanna see you f***in' turn up!". Drake then crooned his hit You Broke My Heart, which was featured as a bonus track on the deluxe edition of his most recent LP, For All The Dogs. In the song, Drake can be heard singing and rapping the lyrics "You broke my heart / I had my doubts about you from the start".
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Meanwhile, in the bridge, he repeatedly sings "Yeah, f*** my ex". Drake and SZA reportedly had a brief romance in 2008 or 2009. It was kept under wraps until Drake referenced it in his 2020 track Mr. Right Now, where he rapped, "Yeah, said she wanna f–k to some SZA, wait / 'Cause I used to date SZA back in '08.". Meanwhile, Drake reportedly dated Serena on and off between 2011 and 2015. 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.
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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.”.
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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.
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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.
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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.
![[Kendrick Lamar performing at the Super Bowl halftime show.]](https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2025/02/kendrick-lamar-performs-halftime-nfl-970886191.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
"Serena briefly dated Drake around 2011 and even though it didn’t end that well, they have remained friends since," an insider told Page Six last summer. This comes after he broke his social media silence with his first slew of posts since Kendrick's Super Bowl performance of the diss track about him. Drake shared some snaps of himself performing on stage for thousands of fans. He captioned the slew of snaps on Instagram: "$$$inema.".
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