Meanwhile, Kendrick continued to perform the track at the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show, as Samuel L. Jackson presented the rapper on stage. You can't really blame him after 'Not Like Us' has now achieved over a billion streams on Spotify and has won multiple Grammy Awards, including Record of the Year and Song of the Year.

Kendrick Lamar’s anticipated 2025 Super Bowl halftime show is expected to include his Grammy-winning Drake diss track “Not Like Us.” Read on to learn more about the drama that’s captivated fans.

The centerpiece of the halftime performance was 'Not Like Us," Lamar's Grammy-winning diss track against the Canadian rapper.

The crowd cheered as Lamar performed Not Like Us, his ‘dis’ track about Drake, who surely felt his ears burning all the way from Australia

Over the past year, the hip-hop giants have thrown personal jabs at each other through several diss tracks, including “Not Like Us” and “Family Matters.”

Lamar promised to keep his passion for storytelling at the forefront of his plans, and SZA was a previously announced guest performer.

Feuding with Drake turned the “Not Like Us” performer into hip-hop’s hottest artist. Now he will take music’s biggest stage in New Orleans—for free.

Kendrick, on the other hand, proudly stood alone on stage for Sunday’s Super Bowl LIX halftime show at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans. Special musical guest SZA joined him halfway through the set, but the 37-year-old rapper became the first solo hip-hop artist to headline the halftime show in Super Bowl history.

Salutations!,” the actor Samuel L. Jackson, dressed as Uncle Sam introduced Kendrick Lamar at New Orleans’ Caesars Superdome for the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show — a powerful, commanding creative choice by the first solo hip-hop artist to ever headline the coveted slot.

The Super Bowl halftime show is an opportunity for big, dumb fun: explosions, laser shows, left sharks. But big, dumb fun isn’t Kendrick Lamar’s thing. The 37-year-old Los Angeles rapper and Pulitzer Prize winner prefers subtlety,