Former NFL player Cam Newton is joining the 2025 Super Bowl Halftime Show controversy conversation and bluntly disagreeing with the NFL’s decision to name Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar as headliner — over New Orleans natives and legends like Cash Money’s Birdman,

Drake won’t be trying to stop Kendrick Lamar from playing his megahit “Not Like Us” at the Super Bowl halftime show next year. “The rumors are completely false,” a rep for Drake, 37, told Us Weekly in a statement on Tuesday.