Drake breaks silence after Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show diss and responds to rival’s ‘a minor’ chain
DRAKE has responded to Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show in a new Instagram post.
Kendrick, 37, wowed fans when he took to the stage at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans on Sunday night and performed his infamous Drake diss track.
He captioned the slew of snaps on Instagram: "$$$inema."
The rapper included a photo of his massive OVO owl chain, which features over 100 carats of Asscher cut diamonds.
The necklace, which represents his record label, was designed by Jason Arasheben.
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OVO stands for “October’s Very Own” and is named after Drake’s birth month.
The photo of his trademark chain seemed to be a direct response to Kendrick wearing an "a" chain during his Super Bowl performance, which fans took as a reference to his Not Like Us lyric "A minor."
Commenting on the snaps, one person said Drake was ";undefeated," while another added: "Let them watch and enjoy."
A third person said: "Still on top!!"
While a fourth added: "The GOAT."
DRAKE'S RANT DOWN UNDER
Just hours before Kendrick took the stage at the Super Bowl, Drake spoke out about unnamed exes during a performance in Australia on Sunday.
"If you ever in your life gave your time, gave your energy, gave your money, gave your heart, gave your soul, gave everything you ever had to somebody and they f**king played with you and wasted your time, wasted your energy, wasted your money? I want you all to turn up to this song!" he fumed to the adoring crowd.
"This is to all of your exes that thought they could play you in their f**king life.
"If you're doing better than your ex, I want to see you turn the f**k up!"
Just hours later, Kendrick brought Drake's exes Serena Williams and SZA on stage for his halftime show.
DRAKE & KENDRICK FEUD TIMELINE
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
LONG-RUNNING FEUD
Kendrick and Drake have been embroiled in a bitter and very public feud since 2023.
Four months after Kendrick was announced as the halftime performer, Drake filed a lawsuit against his record label, Universal Music Group, over his rival's diss track.
In the January 2025 suit, Drake claimed UMG "knew full well" the lyrics from Kendrick's song accused him of being a pedophile.
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He also claimed the label helped Kendrick snag the coveted spot as the halftime show performer.
The furious rapper said Kendrick scored the gig just to perform the diss track during "one of the most significant and viewed cultural events of the year."