Instead of revisiting the past, the rap titan’s Super Bowl performance focused on the now — from his latest album to the current state of a divided America.

The Kendrick Lamar and Drake drama, undoubtedly music's highest profile feud last year, has resulted in a Grammy-award winning diss track, a national cultural discourse on gatekeeping in hip hop, and even an outlandish lawsuit.

Lamar performed a segment of the "Not Like Us" diss track during his Super Bowl halftime show, including some of the most scathing lyrics directed at Drake, like “Say, Drake, I hear you like 'em young" and "tryna strike a chord,