Kendrick Lamar and Drake beef what's the latest after Super Bowl?

Which brings us to the Super Bowl. A couple of minutes into his half-time show, Lamar said: "I want to play their favourite song... but you know they love to sue."

In the build-up to the big event, there had been questions over whether he would, or even could play it, legally-speaking.

Lamar leaned into the dilemma, teasing the song during his set, before finally giving the audience what they wanted.

When the song finally played, Kendrick self-censored the most contentious lyric. But he looked directly into the camera with a mischievous grin as he called out Drake's name; and left intact the song's notorious double-entendre: "Tryin' to strike a chord and it's probably A minor."

That lyric echoed around the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, indicating that no amount of legal action could ever hope to diminish the song's popularity.

In playing it, Lamar was expected to have reached more than 120 million TV viewers who had tuned in to see the game, as well as the likes of Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Taylor Swift, Sir Paul McCartney and Stormzy who were inside the stadium.

The performance was further heightened by the surprise appearance of tennis star Serena Williams, who reportedly once dated Drake and whose name seemingly appears in the lyrics of the song in question.

Williams, a Compton kid like Kendrick, performed the Crip Walk - a notorious Los Angeles dance move - as the headliner prowled the stage.

In a review of the gig, the Guardian said, external the Pulitzer prize-winning rapper "delivered the final blow to his diss track nemesis".

While over in the US, Variety noted, external how Lamar had quite literally declared "game over" in the battle.

On Monday, Lamar announced a joint UK and Europe stadium tour with SZA, who joined him on-stage on Sunday night, which will take in Glasgow, Birmingham, London and Cardiff from July this year. Drake does not currently have any UK tour dates scheduled for 2025.