Kendrick Lamar promised he’d tell some stories and performed the song everyone has been talking about during the Super Bowl halftime show.

Kendrick Lamar spent months trading diss tracks with rival rapper Drake. So ahead of the Super Bowl, fans wondered: Would he play his biggest hit from the feud, the Grammy-winning song “Not Like Us,” on the field at halftime?

Kendrick Lamar, one of hip-hop’s most venerated artists for the past decade, performed “Not Like Us,” a diss track aimed at Drake, to cap the Super Bowl halftime show in New Orleans, the first to be headlined by a solo rapper.

Salutations!,” the actor Samuel L. Jackson dressed as Uncle Sam introduced Kendrick Lamar at New Orleans’ Caesars Superdome for the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show.

Kendrick Lamar said to expect “storytelling” during his halftime show, and he brought it, with help from some famous friends. He infused the proceedings with humor as well as the cutting American imagery he’s known for — another milestone performance after one of the rapper’s biggest years ever.

The Compton rapper spent much of his 13 minutes on the field at New Orleans' Caesars Superdome flirting with whether or not he'd perform his 2024 smash about Drake.