Lamar is expected to perform his Grammy-winning Drake diss track during his halftime performance. As Kendrick Lamar takes on one of the biggest stages of his career at the 2025 Super Bowl, some might be wondering where his rap nemesis Drake is. While Lamar, 37, is in New Orleans preparing to perform the highly anticipated halftime show, Drake couldn’t be further away in Melbourne, Australia, performing on his Anita Max Win tour.
Drake has yet to directly address Lamar’s wins; however, during his first show in Australia, the rapper assured fans he was “very much alive.”. “My name is Drake. I started doing music in 2008,” he told the audience. “I come all the way from Toronto, Canada. The year is now 2025, and no matter what, Drizzy Drake is very much alive and that’s all thanks to you. I love you.”. Lamar is preparing to take the field midway through the Super Bowl LIX, which sees the reigning champions, the Kansas City Chiefs, take on the Philadelphia Eagles.
The Chiefs are looking to extend their winning streak after they beat the Eagles in 2023 and went on to defeat the San Francisco 49ers in 2024. Released last May as part of a series of diss tracks, “Not Like Us” debuted atop the Billboard Hot 100. It came in response to Drake’s “Family Matters,” made up of three parts, in which he accused Lamar of domestic violence. On “Not Like Us,” Lamar hits back, rapping: “Say, Drake, I hear you like ‘em young.”.
He goes on to mock the “Passionfruit” artist’s 2021 studio album Certified Lover Boy, taunting: “Certified Lover Boy? Certified pedophiles.”. The song’s cover image even features an aerial shot of Drake’s Toronto mansion with sex offender targets overlaid. Drake responded within days, dropping his track “The Heart Part 6.” In the song, he denies Lamar’s accusations, rapping: “I never been with no one underage, but now I understand why this the angle that you really mess with.
“Just for clarity, I feel disgusted / I’m too respected / If I was f***ing young girls, I promise I done been arrested / I’m way too famous for the s*** you just suggested, but that’s not the lesson / Clearly there’s a deeper message / Deep cuts that never healed and now they got infected,” he adds. Drake is currently traveling on his seventh concert tour, which marks his first in Oceania in eight years since he performed his 2017 Boy Meets World tour.
