Not Just Drake, Kendrick Lamar Also Has a Message for PlayStation in His Super Bowl Halftime Show

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Not Just Drake, Kendrick Lamar Also Has a Message for PlayStation in His Super Bowl Halftime Show

While football fans eagerly anticipated Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl LIX halftime performance, nobody anticipated the artist’s subsequent jab at Drake with a PlayStation Easter Egg the size of a stadium. Expectations were met for the most part of the rapper’s set. As the audience applauded to spins on songs from albums like GNX and DAMN, the show reached new heights thanks to cameos from SZA and Samuel Jackson.

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Kendrick Lamar performed at the recently concluded Super Bowl halftime show. | Credit:

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There were, of course, many allusions to Lamar’s notorious feud with Drake from 2024, but what spectators were surprised by was how the Super Bowl performer decided to end things with the former Degrassi star. PlayStation’s recognizable cross, circle, triangle, and square symbols were visible on the stage as the lights went down, and the words “Game Over” were illuminated on the stadium’s side.

Kendrick Lamar ends beef with Drake with a PlayStation Easter Egg

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Lamar used the reference to PlayStation to diss Drake. | Credit:

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When it came to his feud with Drake, Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime performance was always going to be viewed as a victory lap, but it felt particularly cruel to include Sony in the fray in order to finally end that chapter in a spectacular manner.

the stage for Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl performance has the PlayStation controller buttons

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Fans of music and video games have taken to social media to express their admiration for the jab, even though it’s unclear why the To Pimp a Butterfly artist decided to seemingly channel PlayStation for the conclusion of his year-long battle. When you realize that the stage is a major video game reference, Lamar’s already fantastic performance might even be better on repeat.

Serena Williams, Samuel Jackson, PlayStation references, the GNX, the whole stadium yelling “AMINORR” ugh the dancers in red, white & blue, SZA?! Thank you Kendrick. The revolution will be televised.

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Given that Lamar’s show has finally put an end to the feud, it’s difficult not to consider this weekend to be among PlayStation’s biggest—and most peculiar—ever. In addition to its unexpected appearance during the Super Bowl halftime show, the gaming company made headlines on Friday and Saturday morning when players were prevented from accessing PSN for a long time.

Fans were unable to play any online games for almost a whole day due to the impromptu event, which caused one of the longest outages since the 2011 scandal. Later yesterday, the long-hailed console company finally managed to restore PSN online, and it announced that it would be giving PS Plus subscribers an extra five days to extend their subscriptions.

PSN is now finally live

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PSN is well and truly back. | Credit: Sony.

Sony’s official PSN status page (08/02/2025) states that PSN is operational again. In the last few hours of the outage, players were posting that while some services seemed to be returning, this was not the case for everyone. But just in time for the remainder of that weekend, Sony seems to have finally restored PSN.

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reported that PSN experienced a 24-day outage. All services, including sign-in, gaming, and the PS Store, were unavailable, according to the

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. Sony also responded to this situation with a tweet.

We are aware some users might be currently experiencing issues with PSN.
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Publishers alerted their players to the outage because the situation was so dire. Users may experience trouble launching games, apps, or network features “due to PlayStation server’s emergent issue today,” according to

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shared by NetEase Games, the company that created Marvel Rivals. “We are actively communicating with the PlayStation team and will restore the game once we receive a solution plan from the PlayStation team,” NetEase said.

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