Kendrick Lamar and Drake had been the goal of a joke made by Tina Fey eventually night time’s Emmy Awards.
Fey was presenting the award for Excellent Reside Selection particular for which Kendrick was nominated for his efficiency on the Tremendous Bowl earlier this 12 months.
Earlier than saying the winner, Fey quipped: “If Kendrick Lamar’s Tremendous Bowl halftime particular wins I’m actually going to listen to it from Drake. And Drake and I are speculated to play pickleball tomorrow. So… anyway…”
Drake and Kendrick are but to reply to the joke however the Compton rapper did lose out on the award to an episode of Saturday Night time Reside.
Tina Fey with a Kendrick Lamar and Drake joke through the Emmys📍
“if Kendrick Lamar’s Superbowl Halftime particular wins, woooo, I’m actually gonna hear it from Drake… and Drake and I are speculated to play pickleball tomorrow…”
Kendrick was nominated for an Emmy for Selection… pic.twitter.com/0rkUujJpev
— SOUND | Victor Baez (@itsavibe) September 15, 2025
Drake not too long ago took a shot at Kendrick on new music “Canine Home” which is predicted to seem on his upcoming album, Iceman.
Referencing the Compton celebrity’s eminently well-liked music “Cash Bushes”, Drizzy raps: “Fuck a cash tree, I’m a money cow / If I ain’t give a fuck then, I don’t give a fuck now .”
Drizzy additionally scored one thing of a win in his authorized battle with UMG over Kendrick’s diss music “Not Like Us”.
Drake has been granted redacted entry to Kendrick’s contract with the recording large by Choose Jeanette Vargas.
Vargas mentioned: “Plaintiff and UMG’s request… for permission to file below seal a contract between UMG Recordings, Inc. and Kendrick Lamar Duckworth, as produced by UMG in redacted kind with the designation Lawyer’s Eyes Solely, is GRANTED.”
Vargas added: “UMG has made a adequate exhibiting that the knowledge that he seeks to seal qualifies as confidential, ‘delicate enterprise data.’”
Nonetheless, the decide in the end dominated: “On this occasion, the ‘curiosity in defending confidential enterprise data outweighs the certified First Modification presumption of public entry’”.
She added: “Moreover, as a result of the Lamar Contract displays an ‘ongoing contractual relationship’ between UMG’s enterprise accomplice and Lamar, the Court docket agrees that sealing the contract would finest shield UMG’s ‘enterprise relationships and pursuits, and the privateness pursuits of non-parties.’”
Drake was not too long ago blasted by UMG boss, Lucian Grainge, over his calls for for documentation concerning his feud with Kendrick Lamar.
In a response to Drake’s calls for, Grainge has submitted a declaration to the court docket saying he “had by no means heard the recording ‘Not Like Us,’ nor ever noticed the corresponding cowl artwork or music video, till after they had been launched by Interscope Data.”
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