Screenshot Courtesy of | Kendrick Lamar performing in February. Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images for Cash App
Kendrick Lamar’s wordsmith journey to Super Bowl halftime headliner
(CNN) — Now might be a good time to check on Drake as Kendrick Lamar appears to have executed a checkmate-move in what has been an historic hip-hop feud between the two artists.
Here’s the backstory: the two battled back and forth earlier this year in a well-documented rap battle that Lamar is widely viewed to have won through his searing verses about Drake. The Canadian artist may have rapped that he was as “Big as the Super Bowl,” but it was the Compton-native Lamar who was announced as the headline act for the next Super Bowl.
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