Wack 100 claims Drake is plotting to derail Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl performance
According to Wack 100, Drake has claimed he is attempting to “restrict” Kendrick Lamar’s upcoming Super Bowl halftime show performance. He is due to perform in New Orleans for the halftime show in February, 2025.
During a live stream over the weekend, the music manager, who has often found himself at the centre of controversy, alleged that Drake was planning on using legal tactics to negatively impact Lamar’s halftime performance. Given how widely anticipated the Compton rappers’ performance is, this would be a huge blow to Kendrick Lamar fans and fans of hip-hop as a whole.
Wack told viewers during his live stream, “He’s [Drake’s] trying to get the NFL to restrict Kendrick.”
Furthermore, Wack said that Drake and his legal team have allegedly served Kendrick with a cease and desist, which would prevent him from playing his chart-topping diss track, ‘Not Like Us’. This would be another huge blow to hip-hop fans, given how big this song has proven to be and how excited people are about seeing it performed on the biggest stage of his career.
These are rumours for the time being, and even if there is any merit behind them, it’s tough to see why or how Drake could ever restrict Lamar’s performance. The Compton rapper has already performed the track live at the Pop Out, one of the most iconic gigs in hip-hop history.
Equally, if Drake attempted to go down the defamation route and claim Lamar couldn’t perform the song because it contains falsehoods about him, this would potentially do even more damage to the Toronto rapper’s reputation and could be worked around by Lamar simply changing a few lines.
Wack provided no further information about how Drake intended to restrict Kendrick Lamar’s performance. He also said that Jay-Z, who helps organise the Super Bowl halftime show, would refuse to let the NFL or Drake censor Kendrick.
Even if Kendrick Lamar doesn’t mention Drake’s name, the scale of their beef means that fans are always looking for hidden meanings in their words that could double up as disses. When Kendrick Lamar announced that he was playing at the Super Bowl halftime show, he stood before an American flag and fired passes to a receiver off-screen. Even though he didn’t once mention Drake, fans couldn’t help but speculate whether he was referring to him.
“You know it’s only one opportunity to win a championship,” he said during his announcement, “No round twos.”