Kendrick Lamar and Drake Beef

Kendrick Lamar’s show-stop performance at Super Bowl on Sunday was for many a victory meat after his knock-out beat in a long-standing beef with colleague rapper Drake.

Compton star’s whole half-time set seemed to Build quickly to a performance of not like usHis Grammy-winning removal of Drake, which was one of last year’s biggest hits … but is also now the subject of a potential libelation case brought by the Canadian.

Drake appeared in Australia on Sunday, Dishing out cash to more of his fans at a Melbourne -ShowBefore the whole world was set to see his rival.

The origin of the argument Go back more than decade. But here is a quick reminder of where we are now and how we got hit over a heated 12 months:

In March last year, producer and former Drake -partner released Metro Boomin ‘and rapping Future a collaborative album called We don’t proud you.

Hidden in tracklisting was a song called like that with an uncredited verse of Kendrick Lamar … and it was explosive.

In that, Lamar was aiming for rapper J Cole’s earlier claim – that even, Kendrick and Drake were “the big three” – proclaimed: “(forget) the big three – it’s just big me”.

After many years of voltage, the fuse had been turned on.

Shortly after, Drake seemed to address Kendrick’s verse at a concert in Florida.

He said to the crowd, “I know that whatever, it’s not a (person) on this earth that could ever (express) with me in my life!”

Two weeks later, J Cole offered his own answer to Kendrick’s verse on a track called 7 minutes live, but he soon realized it had been a huge “wrong step”.

When he spoke on stage at the Dreamville festival in North Carolina, he apologized for the song, praised Lamar’s back catalog and asked for forgiveness.

Drake then released a song called Push -ups (Drop and Give Me 50), where he was aiming for Lamar’s height and called him a dwarf (he is 5FT 4in tall) and a record label doll that is forced to collaborate with pop artists.

“Maroon 5 needs a verse, you better make it witty / then we need a verse for swifties,” Cajoled.

He also questioned Lamar’s position in the hip-hop hierarchy, which suggested that other artists had overtaken him.

Several rappers, including Kanye West and Rick Ross, were drawn into the feud. But Drake’s attention was focused solely on Lamar.

The Toronto star went his American opponent by dropping yet another dissant called Taylor Made Freestyle, who suggested that Lamar was too FEIG to release music in the same week as Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department.

In addition, he used artificial intelligence to deliver the insults in the voices of Lamar’s heroes, Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg.

Lamar finally responded with a full -blown, six minute riposte on the record.

Titled Euphoria (a reference to the HBO show, where Drake acts as a performing producer), it saw him Brand Drake as “predictable”, a “master manipulator” and a “usual liar” while calling his sparring partner’s parenting skills in doubt .

“Let me say I’m the biggest hater,” he rapped. “I hate the way you go, the way you speak, I hate the way you dress.”

Less than 72 hours later he followed up with another song called 6:16 in LA.

In that, he claimed that someone inside Drake’s organization was leaking harmful information.

“You have to be a terrible person/ everyone inside your team whispers as you deserve it.”

In May, Drake shot back with a song called Family Matters that took the feud to new heights.

On the field, he speculated that Lamar may have been a perpetrator of domestic violence (the star has never been subjected to such a claim).

Within 20 minutes, Lamar retreated with a third Diss track, Meet Grahams, opening with the ominous warning: “You (messy) up the moment you called my family’s name”.

Each verse was addressed to one of Drake’s immediate family members who indicated the rapper’s suspected failures.

Among the allegations, he said that Drake had secretly had a second child and depended on games, sex and drugs.

Drake replied to Instagram by asking who had her “hidden daughter” to give her back and added that Lamar’s claims were a “Shambles”.

But California wasn’t done, and he fell a fourth dissant, not like us where he accused Drake of having relationships with underage women.

“Say, Drake, I hear you like those who are young / tryna strike a chord, and it’s probably a minor,” he rapped.

Drake hit back a day later and denied angrily the accusations and bold lamar to reveal evidence.

“Drake is not a name that you gonn ‘see on no sex offender list, easily do it / you mention a minor … b sharp and tell the fans: Who was it?”

Coil until January of this year and Drake decided to sue Universal Music Group (UMG) for defamation and harassment over its release of not like us.

In papers filed in New York, Drake’s lawyers accused the record label of launching “a campaign to create a viral hit” out of a song that made the “false actual claim that Drake is a criminal pedophile, and for To suggest that the public should resort to vigilance in the answer “.

In responseUniversal, who has been Drake’s label for more than a decade, said his claims were not only untrue, but “illogical.”

It also accused the star of trying to “silent” Lamar who shares the same label by taking their rap fight to the courts.

“Throughout his career, Drake has intentionally and successfully used UMG to distribute his music and poetry to participate in conventionally scandalous back and forth ‘rap matches’ to express his feelings over other artists,” the label said.

“He is now trying to weapon the legal process to dampen an artist’s creative expression and to seek compensation from (universal) to distribute the artist’s music.”

Which brings us to the Super Bowl. A few minutes into his half -time show, Lamar said, “I want to play their favorite song … but you know they love to sue.”

In the structure of the big event, there had been questions about whether he would or even could play it, legal-speaking.

Lamar leaned into the dilemma and teased the song under his set before finally giving the audience what they wanted.

When the song finally played, Kendrick self -sensed the most disputed lyric. But he looked directly into the camera with a ramped grin when he called Drake’s name; And left intact the sang’s notorious double effort: “Try to hit a chord, and it’s probably a minor.”

The lyrical repeated around Caesar’s Superdome in New Orleans, indicating that no amount of litigation could ever hope to reduce the song’s popularity.

By playing it, Lamar was expected to have reached more than 120 million TV viewers who had set themselves to watch the game, as well as like Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Taylor Swift, Sir Paul McCartney and Stormzy who were inside the stadium.

The benefit was further increased by Surprise appearance of tennis star Serena WilliamsThere is reportedly once dated Drake, and whose name seems to appear in the lyrics of that song.

Williams, a Compton child like Kendrick, performed Crip Walk – a notorious Los Angeles dance relocation – when the headliner shook the scene.

In a review of performance, Said The Guardian The Pulitzer award-winning rapper “delivered the last blow to his disses track nemesis”.

While you’re over in the US, Variety noted How Lamar had literally declared “Games over” in the Battle.

On Monday, Lamar announced a joint UK and Europe Stadium Tour with SZA, who joined him on stage on Sunday night, which will take on Glasgow, Birmingham, London and Cardiff from July this year. Drake does not currently have any British tour dates scheduled for 2025.