Kendrick Lamar Brings Out Drake’s Ex Serena Williams for Surprise Super Bowl Halftime Cameo but Changes ‘Not Like Us’ Lyrics

Drake wasn’t given a free pass by Kendrick Lamar during his Super Bowl 2025 halftime performance.

Lamar Grammy-winning single “Not Like Us”—the well-known diss track directed at Drake amid their ongoing feud—closed out the 37-year-old Compton-born rapper’s performance at the Caesars Superdome on Sunday, February 9.

Lamar said, “I want to play their favorite song, but you know they love to sue,” prior to performing the year’s top song. This was probably a reference to Drake’s January lawsuit against his own record label UMG, which claimed defamation for accusing the “Hotline Bling” rapper of “being a pedophile” in “Not Like Us.”

During Lamar’s halftime performance, however, he noticeably did not say the word “pedophile” where it appears in the song’s original lyrics.

What’s more, Lamar brought out fellow Compton-native Serena Williams, who briefly dated Drake around 2011, to dance during the performance.

Samuel L. Jackson — dressed as Uncle Sam — introduced Lamar when the performance began and appeared a handful of other times during the show.

Lamar performed several of his biggest hits, including “HUMBLE.” and “Squabble Up” before going into the Drake diss track. SZA, as previously announced, came out to perform two songs she’s in, “luther” after the rapper performed his song “peekaboo” from the field. SZA stunned in a red leather look during her appearance. PEOPLE FOR FULL GIST

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