Kendrick Lamar drops the bomb at the 2025 NFL Super Bowl Halftime Show
Drake was probably on the phone with his lawyer, paying $5000-hour; hey it is Sunday
The National Football League 2025 Super Bowl Halftime performance by Kendrick Lamar was stunning.
Along with Lamar, Samuel L. Jackson, dressed in stars and stripes, played Uncle Sam. He introduced himself as Uncle Sam and, in great showmanship, arms spread, he said, “This is the great American game.”
Also participating in the show was CZA, who Lamar has toured with. And Serena Williams made an appearance too.
The show
If you know about the public feud between Lamar and Drake and the Lamar-penned diss track, Not Like Us, you would have been sitting in front of your television wondering, will he, do it?
He did.
A few dozen support dancers were every bit of the performance as Lamar.
The music started with Lamar crouched on the hood of the infamous Buick Grand National GNX.
After the first song Squabble Up with a snippet of GNX teaser, Jackson can be heard yelling, “No, no, no, too reckless, too loud, too ghetto.”
Then came Humble, a song that had some influence on Lamar receiving the Pulitzer Prize for music.
But before he got into Humble, Jackson asked, “Mr. Lamar, do you really know how to play the game? Then tighten up,” he admonished.
Next came DNA.
Uncle Sam then asked, “Scorekeeper, now, deduct one life.”
Lamar continued with Euphoria Man at the Garden and Peekaboo.
Lamar teased the audience, pantomiming with the dancers and backup singers, about whether he should do “the song,” which, of course, is the Grammy Award-winning Song of the Year “No Like Us.”
Then Luther featuring CZA.
Then, Uncle Sam jumps in with, “Now that’s what I am talking about. That’s what America wants, nice and calm. You are almost there. Don’t mess this…[gasp].”
Uncle Sam gasps at the intro to Not Like Us.
And Lamar dropped a delicious smile right at the camera when he sang, “Hey Drake, I heard you like them young. I bet you’ll never go to cell block one.”
Then the camera turns to tennis star Serena Williams on the stage dancing to the music — celebrity moral support.
Lamar kindly did not use the word pedophile. He was likely asked to avoid saying it.
Not Like Us lyrics
Ayy, Mustard on the beat, ho
Deebo any rap nigga, he a free throw
Man down, call an amberlamps, tell him, "Breathe, bro"
Nail a nigga to the cross, he walk around like Teezo
What's up with these jabroni-ass niggas tryna see Compton?
The industry can hate me, fuck 'em all and they mama
How many opps you really got? I mean, it's too many options
I'm finna pass on this body, I'm John Stockton
Beat your ass and hide the Bible if God watchin'
Sometimes you gotta pop out and show niggas
Certified boogeyman, I'm the one that up the score with 'em
Walk him down, whole time, I know he got some ho in him
Pole on him, extort shit, bully Death Row on him
Say, Drake, I hear you like 'em young
You better not ever go to cell block one
To any bitch that talk to him and they in love
Just make sure you hide your lil' sister from him
They tell me Chubbs the only one that get your hand-me-downs
And Party at the party playin' with his nose now
And Baka got a weird case, why is he around?
Certified Lover Boy? Certified pedophiles
Wop, wop, wop, wop, wop, Dot, fuck 'em up
Wop, wop, wop, wop, wop, I'ma do my stuff
Why you trollin' like a bitch? Ain't you tired?
Tryna strike a chord and it's probably A minor
Chris, great little write-up, and, of course he did!!!