Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’ Spotify Streams Shoot 430% After Super Bowl -Show

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Streams for Kendrick Lamar’s 2024 Card topping diss the trace “not like us” rose 430 percent on Spotify within three hours of His very hyped set At the Super Bowl Halfime Show on Sunday.

While “Not Like Us” saw most streams, the nine other songs he performed on the show also recorded larger spikes, according to data released on Monday morning.

The more grammy -winner exceeded the 59. Super bowl with A medley of his hitsIncluding “not like us” that aims at his The Canadian Rival Drake.

The song was released last year as part of a musical feud that saw Both Lamar and Drake released several numbers that criticized the other. Lamar 2017 -Sang “Humble” saw a 300 percent increase, while “Man at the Garden” from GNX saw a 260 percent increase in streams. “All Stars” from Black Panther Soundtrack rose by 290 percent.

Overall, Lamar’s music saw a leap of 175 percent in streams after his performance.

The R&B star SZA, shown in the “All Stars” track and joined Lamar for the break, so her streams rise by 80 percent in the United States.

Kendrick Lamar under Super Bowl Halfime Show
Kendrick Lamar under Super Bowl Halfime Show (AP?

Fans had been waiting to see if Lamar would perform “not like us” that contain brutal lyrics about Drake, including accusations of his behavior with younger women.

Lamar, 37, self -censored the controversial line brand “One Dance” singer a “Certified Pedofil”, which had led Drake to sue Lamar’s, and his own record company Universal Music Group last month. He was referring to lawsuit While teasing the track’s introduction throughout his set, I sprout, “I want to perform their favorite song but you know they love to sue.”

Universal refused Drake’s claim of defamation and tells The independent In a statement: “Not only are these claims untrue, but the notion that we would seek to hurt every artist’s reputation – so much less Drake – is illogical.”

Review for The independentwrote critic Mark Beaumont The Lamar blower set would “undoubtedly go down as one of the most important half-time exhibitions in the history of the event, if not the most significant mass-TV-RAP performance of all time”.

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“These troops with black dancers in red, white and blue are speared out of Lamar’s GNX as a cool retro clown car and forming the American flag for the g-funk opener” Squabble Up “is the most direct finger in Trump’s face from a proud and unbroken Black America, ”he wrote. “But that the show then throws these citizens into a number of America-colored squid games in light arenas of dice and cross-to-the brutal, yet haunting ‘DNA’, a trace of the multitudes contained in Lamar and his heritage is a metaphor For the upcoming exploitation and manipulation that is likely to have jumped straight from Trump’s impervious skull. “

Lamar’s show was monitored by WHO’s WHO by celebrity guests like Sir Paul McCartney, Bradley Cooper and Taylor Swift, who showed up to cheer on his girlfriend, Kansas City Chief’s tight end Travis Kelce when his team took a Christmas from Philadelphia Eagles.