Drizzy Drake changed the lyrics to “Knife Talk” in Melbourne on the same day as the Super Bowl night.
Drake also released a new statement, issuing a UMG Lawsuit Statement hours before Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl LIX
Drake has declared that he's still alive and kicking with a subtle change to the lyrics of his Certified Lover Boy track, “Knife Talk.”
While performing “Knife Talk.” during a concert in Melbourne, Australia, on Sunday night, he rapped: “Beef is live, spoiler alert, I never died." On the original version of the song, he raps: "Beef is live, spoiler alert, this n***a dies." The move comes as Kendrick Lamar performed his diss track, "Not Like Us," at the Super Bowl Halftime Show on Sunday.
The lyric change has been getting mixed reactions from fans on social media. "This possibly can’t be true, only Kendrick is the one harping on the beef and holding on to it. Well at least that’s what Drakes fans told me," one user wrote on X (formerly Twitter). Another countered: "Drake still richer, still got more hoes, still got a better family, still looks better, still has more hits, still gets more love, still pulls more baddies, still makes better music. We don’t care about KDot."
Drake is Currently traveling across Australia for a 16-date trek that kicked off in Perth earlier this week and will take him through Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane before wrapping in Auckland, New Zealand on March 16.
Drake's legal team released a statement ahead of Kendrick Lamar's 2025 Super Bowl performance condemning UMG, reports Joe Coscarelli of the New York Times.
“UMG is masquerading as a champion of artistic freedom by calling its actions merely ‘entertainment,’ but there is nothing entertaining about pedophilia or child abuse in the real world,” they told Joe Coscarelli from The New York Times. “We are confident that the evidence we will ultimately present at trial—including information we’ve already learned and continue to receive since filing the lawsuit—will expose UMG’s gross prioritization of its own corporate profits and executive bonuses over its exclusively signed artists’ well-being and the truth.”
The Toronto rapper is currently suing UMG in federal court for defamation for distributing Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us," a song that refers to the Canadian rapper as a child predator. Kendrick performed the song on Sunday (Feb. 9) at the Super Bowl, which was watched by an estimated 113 million people.