Kendrick Lamar is kicking off 2025 with a bang. The rapper’s monumental hit, “Not Like Us,” has officially surpassed one billion Spotify streams. Lamar’s anthemic track, released in May 2024, marked the end of the highly publicized feud between himself and Drake and became a longstanding hit, topping the Hot 100 for two nonconsecutive weeks.

Drake has taken a number of legal actions since Kendrick Lamar dropped "Not Like Us." Here's a timeline of every move he's made so far.

As previously announced, this year’s Grammy telecast will go forward live on CBS “with a renewed sense of purpose.” On Feb. 2, the ceremony will raise “additional funds to support wildfire relief efforts and honoring the bravery and dedication of first responders who risk their lives to protect ours.”

A 2018 hit that originally took aim at Drizzy was previously honored with multiple Grammys. If Kendrick Lamar ’s “Not Like Us” wins record and/or song of the year at the 2025 Grammy Awards on Feb. 2, it wouldn’t be the first hit conceived as a Drake diss track to do so.

By the time the BRITs ceremony took place in March 2024, the future of the U.K. scene’s musical identity appeared to be on the line. Raye may have scooped a deserved six awards that night – a new record for the most in a single year – but the path ahead was unclear: Who would step up and take British music to the world again?

Bad Bunny, who had the most-streamed album of both 2022 and 2023, seems to have another potential juggernaut on his hands. But to top the chart this week he had to hold off an unlikely challenger.

In celebration of the 2025 Super Bowl taking over New Orleans on Feb. 9, Captain Morgan is transforming the city’s iconic Bourbon Street into Rum Street leading up to the Big Game from Feb. 6 to 8, when T-Pain will hit the stage and perform his biggest hits. The company serves as the Official Spiced Rum Sponsor of the NFL.

Terrace Martin took to X to reveal that he has unearthed a nearly two-decades-old hard drive filled with collaborations from a myriad of artists, including the likes of Kendrick Lamar and Quincy Jones.

Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile” scores its third consecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. This marks Gaga’s second longest chart-topping reign of her career, tying the three-week run at No.

DJ Mustard has revealed that multiple rappers passed on the instrumental for Kendrick Lamar’s GNX track “Hey Now” before the rapper finally got his hands on the beat. In an interview with People, the West Coast producer recalled playing the “Hey Now” beat for rap stars including YG and Quavo, both of whom decided to turn down the track.

YG and Quavo reportedly turned down DJ Mustard's beat for Kendrick Lamar's Hey Now. In his latest interview with People magazine, producer DJ Mustard discussed his involvement in Kendrick's recent album,

Two songs foray into the Top 20 on this week's Mediabase pop radio airplay chart, and both involve SZA. The artist's solo hit "BMF" makes a particularly