Kendrick Lamar wins 5 Grammys for Drake diss track ‘Not Like Us’

Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” has officially been crowned 2024’s record and song of the year at the 2025 Grammy Awards.

Earning seven nominations total, five of them for the controversial diss track, Lamar took the Grammy stage to accept his award on Sunday, acknowledging the city of Los Angeles as the inspiration for West Coast anthem.

“It was this neck of the woods that held me down since a young buck, you know, I was in the studio scrapping to write the best raps. I can’t give enough thanks to these places.”

One week before his upcoming Super Bowl halftime performance, Lamar also acknowledged the wildfires that have devastated his city.

“The families in the Palisades and Altadena. This is a true testament that we will continue to restore the city.”

In May 2024, the hit song was released in response to Drake, as the two hip-hop artists exchanged multiple diss tracks back and forth last year.

Fans quickly deemed “Not Like Us” the battle’s knockout blow, with the song instantly becoming one of the biggest hits of the year, hitting No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100.

In the aftermath of his infamous beef with Drake, Lamar was named the 2025 Super Bowl halftime performer, released his sixth studio album, “GNX,” and announced a 23-concert tour with R&B artist SZA starting in April.

On Jan. 15, Drake, born Aubrey Drake Graham, filed a lawsuit in federal court for defamation and harassment against Universal Music Group, the label behind both rappers.

The “God’s Plan” rapper alleges that the record company’s promotion of “Not Like Us” is was about “corporate greed over the safety and well-being of its artists.”

Drake is accusing Universal of having “approved, published, and launched a campaign to create a viral hit out of a rap track” that was “intended to convey the specific, unmistakable, and false factual allegation that Drake is a criminal pedophile, and to suggest that the public should resort to vigilante justice in response.”

Universal Music Group responded to the claims saying that Drake is using the legal system to “weaponize the legal process to silence an artist’s creative expression” and insists that “No amount of contrived and absurd legal arguments in this pre-action submission can mask the fact that fans choose the music they want to hear.”

Lamar has not publicly commented on the “Not Like Us” lawsuit.