The recording was made during the 2025 Super Bowl and broadcast to the largest audience for a Super Bowl halftime show in history, more than 133 million people, including millions of children and millions more who had never heard the song or any of the songs that preceded it,”Drake’s legal team said in the Manhattan court filing.
But that wasn’t all, as it seems they left a message that felt like a warning to the NFL, commenting: “It was the first, and hopefully the last, Super Bowl halftime show orchestrated to assassinate the character of another artist.”
Super Bowl LIX was one of the most watched sporting events in the United States in many years, a statistic Drake’s legal team used in court in their quest for justice and an end to the defamation.
The lawsuit argues that Kendrick Lamar’s decision to exclude the term “pedophile” from his Super Bowl show shows that even he recognizes its defamatory nature.
It also points out that Universal Music allegedly used financial resources and strategic connections to position him as the central figure of the show and increase his media exposure.
