Drake and Kendrick Lamars epic feud explained: Timeline

Drake and Kendrick Lamar got bad blood.But it used to be mad love.The beef between Drizzy Drake and K-Dot dominated headlines in 2024 — and has done anything but abate ever since.Now, just days after winning five Grammys for his Drake diss track “Not Like Us,” including the coveted Record of the Year and Song of the Year trophies, the LA rapper is set to take the field at the 2025 Super Bowl Halftime Show.

According to reports, Lamar plans to perform the song that dominated the Billboard Rap charts last summer.With more than 80,000 in attendance at the Superdome in New Orleans on Sunday and likely over 100 million watching at home, the stage is set for K-Dot and Champagne Papi’s feud to be broadcast to more people than ever before.

And though the beef really started to burn over the last year, the rivalry goes back over a decade.For the uninitiated and those just looking to brush up, here is a timeline of Drake and Lamar’s epic feud.Drake and Lamar began as pals, with the Canadian native featuring Lamar on his song “Buried Alive Interlude” off of his second studio album, “Take Care,” which dropped on Nov.15, 2011.Lamar was still on the ascendance at the time, while Drake already had a No.

1 album under his belt (2010’s “Thank Me Later”).Fresh off the success of his album “Take Care” debuting at No.

1, Drake invited Lamar and A$AP Rocky to open for him on his Club Paradise headline tour, which kicked off on Feb.14, 2012.Drake and Kendrick worked together on two songs that dropped in October 2012, “Poetic Justice,” from Lamar’s second album, “Good Kid, MAAD City,” and A$AP Rocky’s “F–kin’ Problems,” later included on Rocky’s debut album, “Long.

Live.ASAP,” the following year.The artists haven’t collaborated on a song since.In a guest verse on Big Sean’s 2013 track, “Control,” Lamar listed Drake as one of the rappers he’s trying to overtake.“I’m usually homeboys with the same n—-s I’m rhymi...