Drake’s dad reacts to Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’ wins at Grammys 2025
They not like him.
Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” has made street history by becoming the first diss track to win Record and Song of the Year at the Grammys on Sunday night.
The hip-hop anthem — which also won the rapper three other awards at the 67th annual awards — was the final salvo in Lamar’s feud with Drake last year. And Drake’s dad, Dennis Graham, wasn’t stepping in the middle of it after Lamar’s big Grammy night.
“I don’t care nothing about that s—t,” Graham said in an Instagram video captured while he was leaving the Grammys.
“That ain’t got nothing to do with me. All the best to him, man.”
He concluded: “I don’t do that bulls—t.”
It’s unlikely that Drake feels the same as his father, though.
Last month, the “God’s Plan” rapper sued Universal Music Group — the umbrella record company that he and Lamar share — for releasing “Not Like Us,” accusing UMG of of spreading the “false and malicious narrative” that he’s “a pedophile.”
In fact, one “Not Like Us” lyric plays on Drake’s “Certified Lover Boy” album title, saying “Certified Lover Boy? Certified pedophile.”
And last November, Drake filed a pre-action petition against Universal Music Group and Spotify alleging that they artificially inflated streams of “Not Like Us.” The petition also accused UMG and Spotify of using other schemes to boost the success of Lamar’s No. 1 single after its release in May 2024.
The beef between the rappers goes all the way back to when Lamar, Future and Metro Boomin released “Like That” in March 2024. On that track, Lamar boasted that it was “just big me” in a reference to J. Cole calling himself, Drake and Lamar “the big three” on “First Person Shooter.”
Then in April 2024, Drake retaliated against Lamar on “Push Ups” and “Taylor Made Freestyle.”
Lamar responded with “Euphoria” and “6:16 in LA,” with Drake hitting back on “Family Matters.”
Next it was Lamar’s turn again with “Meet the Grahams,” followed by “Not Like Us” and Drake’s “The Heart Part 6.”
With the smash success of “Not Like Us” declaring Lamar the winner in this battle, the Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper went on to score the coveted spot as the Super Bowl halftime show headliner in next Sunday’s game at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans.
And with “Not Like Us” having just become only the second rap track ever to win Record and Song of the Year — after Childish Gambino’s “This Is America” in 2019 — you can bet Lamar will be rocking the song during his show.
