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.

Swims’ debut studio album, I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 1), released in September 2023, furthered his global presence. The album charted in multiple countries, achieving top 10 positions in Norway, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Australia, among others, and earned Gold certifications in the U.S., U.K., and several other regions.

Travis Scott’s highly-anticipated “4×4” single is here. La Flame unleashed his latest track on Friday (Jan. 24) after a series of teasers on WWE’s Raw and a debut live performance atop Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

On Thursday (Jan. 23), K. Dot teamed up with Apple Music to release a teaser for his anticipated NOLA performance on Feb. 9. In the clip, Lamar revealed that his upcoming tourmate SZA will be joining him on the Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show stage.

Rapper Kendrick Lamar is performing at the Super Bowl Halftime Show in New Orleans next month, following a commercially successful year that was dominated by a high-profile feud —and Apple Music confirmed Thursday that R&B singer SZA would make an appearance in the show.

SZA & Kendrick Lamar are back in the top 10 of the TikTok Billboard Top 50, but will they take over Bad Bunny’s No. 1 spot? Keep watching to find out!

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?

Charli XCX leads the nominations for the 2025 BRIT Awards, with nods in five categories – artist of the year, pop act, dance act, Mastercard album of the year for the zeitgeist-shifting Brat, and song of the year for “Guess,