Kendrick Lamar made a major statement with one of his accessories at the 2025 Super Bowl.
On Sunday, Feb. 9, the rapper, 37, headlined the Halftime Show at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, where the Kansas City Chiefs are playing the Philadelphia Eagles.
Lamar performed his hit “Not Like Us,” which recently won record of the year at the 2025 Grammy awards. The song serves as a diss track aimed at fellow rapper Drake in which he calls the Canadian musician a pedophile and a “colonizer.” While Lamar altered one particularly scathing lyric (he omitted last word from the line “Certified Lover Boy? Certified pedophiles”, which refers to Drake’s 2021 album Certified Lover Boy), he made sure to send a message with his ensemble.
In addition to flare jeans and a bold jacket that read “Gloria” across the front in capital letters, Lamar sported a diamond Rahaminov brooch worth $68,000 on his hat and a massive “a” chain, among other jewels. The “a” necklace seemingly nods to another lyric from “Not Like Us”: “Tryna strike a chord and it’s probably A minor.”
In response to “Not Like Us,” which was released in May 2024, Drake filed a law suit against Universal Music Group, his own record label since 1009, for releasing and promoting the track.
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According to court documents obtained by PEOPLE, Drake, 38 (whose real name is Aubrey Drake Graham), alleged in the Jan. 15 filing that Universal Music Group “approved, published, and launched a campaign to create a viral hit out of a rap track that falsely accuses Drake of being a pedophile and calls for violent retribution against him.”
According to the complaint, Universal Music Group has allegedly “repeatedly defamed Drake while ‘exploiting’ and ‘monetizing’ his work” by releasing “Not Like Us.”
The lawsuit alleges that “Not Like Us” was “intended to convey the specific, unmistakable, and false factual allegation that Drake is a criminal pedophile, and to suggest that the public should resort to vigilante justice in response.”
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“Not only are these claims untrue, but the notion that we would seek to harm the reputation of any artist—let alone Drake—is illogical. We have invested massively in his music and our employees around the world have worked tirelessly for many years to help him achieve historic commercial and personal financial success,” a spokesperson for UMG told PEOPLE in a statement.
They continued: “We have not and do not engage in defamation — against any individual. At the same time, we will vigorously defend this litigation to protect our people and our reputation, as well as any artist who might directly or indirectly become a frivolous litigation target for having done nothing more than write a song.”
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