Drake Changes Lyric in 'Knife Talk' After Kendrick Lamar Performs at the 2025 Super Bowl

Mar. 15, 2025

Drake in December 2022; Kendrick Lamar in February 2025.Photo:Prince Williams/Wireimage; Kevin Sabitus/Getty

Prince Williams/Wireimage; Kevin Sabitus/Getty

Drakeappears to have seenKendrick Lamar’s 2025Super Bowlperformance.

On Monday, Feb. 10, the “Hotline Bling” rapper, 38, decided to change up one of the lyrics in his song “Knife Talk” during a concert in Melbourne, Au.

In the original lyrics, theDegrassialum raps, “Beef is live, spoiler alert — this n—- dies” over Metro Boomin’s bold production.

Drake performs in Atlanta in December 2022.Prince Williams/Wireimage

Prince Williams/Wireimage

Throughout his Super Bowl halftime show performance, the “Money Trees” musician took shots at Drake.

He wore a glitzy, lowercase “a” around his neck, which isbelieved to bea nod to his “Tryna strike a chord and it’s probably A minor” bar from “Not Like Us.”

Lamar also acknowledgedthe lawsuitDrake filed in January 2025 against his record label alleging that Universal Music Group “approved, published, and launched a campaign to create a viral hit out of a rap track that falsely accuses Drake of being a pedophile and calls for violent retribution against him.”

(UMG denied the allegationssaying, “Not only are these claims untrue, but the notion that we would seek to harm the reputation of any artist—let alone Drake—is illogical … We have not and do not engage in defamation — against any individual.  At the same time, we will vigorously defend this litigation to protect our people and our reputation, as well as any artist who might directly or indirectly become a frivolous litigation target for having done nothing more than write a song.")

Before the track began to play, he appeared to reference it saying: “I wanna perform their favorite song, but you know they love to sue.” He then cut the clip short, saying, “Maybe I’ll think about it,” before going on to perform other hits.

Serena Williams, who briefly dated Drake in 2011, performed a crip walk during Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” where he warns that he “better not speak on Serena.”

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Kendrick Lamar in February 2025.Kevin Sabitus/Getty

Kevin Sabitus/Getty

The Compton native has been ina heated beef with Drakesince last year.

However, their feud dates all the way back to 2013, when the two first began sparring, exchanging jabs on songs such as “Control,” and “100.”

Last spring, went head-to-head, lobbing accusations at one another.

The spat resulted in songs such as “Like That,” “Push Ups,” “Taylor Made Freestyle,” “Meet the Grahams,” and of course, “Not Like Us,” which has since become a runaway hit.

source: people.com