Drake Offers Legal Response To Kendrick Lamar Halftime Show

Drake unsurprisingly wasn’t a fan of Kendrick Lamar’s halftime show performance, and he updated a lawsuit to reflect that.

The Canadian rapper amended his defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group, where he specifically mentioned Kendrick’s performance of “Not Like Us” at Super Bowl LIX at Caesars Superdome, per TMZ.

“In the docs, obtained by TMZ, Drake claims the show ‘assassinated’ his character … and he says Kendrick excluding the word ‘pedophile’ from the lyrics backs up his claim that the song’s content is defamatory,” TMZ wrote Thursday.

Of course, the famous lyric Drake referred to was, “certified lover boy, certified pedophile.” And if you re-watch the halftime show (10:52), Lamar does omit it from his “Not Like Us” performance, which Drake claimed the NFL or FOX would have allowed him to do if he didn’t remove that word. The NFL and FOX reportedly were prepared to scrub parts of the song if needed.

Drake also pointed out that because Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show was the most-watched of all time, “it introduced the song to scores of new people, causing them ‘to be duped into believing that Drake was a pedophile.'” The 38-year-old’s lawyers also claimed that Lamar made people believe it was factual that their client was a pedophile.

According to TMZ, UMG brushed off the defamation lawsuit, and the NFL did not offer a comment about Drake’s new claims.