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Conan O'Brien makes savage dig at Drake and Kendrick Lamar with ‘pedophile’ joke at Oscars

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Conan O'Brien makes savage dig at Drake and Kendrick Lamar with ‘pedophile’ joke at Oscars

Conan O'Brien referenced Kendrick Lamar's 2025 Super Bowl halftime show performance

Oscars presenter Conan O'Brien has taken aim at Drake half-way through the 97th Academy Awards ceremony.

The 97th Academy Awards ceremony kicked off earlier today (March 3) and saw late night talk show host Conan O'Brien kick off the night with an opening skit which left people divided.

However, it would appear he was certainly only getting started...

On February 9, the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles took to the field at the Super Bowl LIX to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 2024 season however, the real star of the day was Kendrick Lamar, who took to the stage during the halftime show and delivered a performance bursting with 'hidden' messages.

While making a dig at Trump and commenting on the divide in America right now, Lamar also performed his Drake diss track 'Not Like Us' - which Drake has filed a lawsuit against Universal Music Group over as a result of being referred to as a 'pedophile' - joking, 'I want to perform they favorite song, but you know they love to sue,' before going ahead anyway, just dropping the word 'pedophiles' from his rendition.

And O'Brien couldn't help but refer back to the moment during the 'halftime' of the 2025 Oscars, stating: "Well, we're halfway through the show, which means it's time for Kendrick Lamar to come out and call Drake a pedophile."

And it's not taken long for viewers to flock to social media to weigh in.

O'Brien referenced Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl haltime show (Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)
O'Brien referenced Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl haltime show (Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)

One Twitter user said: "Ok that was actually pretty funny."

"Drake getting wacked at the Oscars, Grammys, AND Super Bowl?" Another added.

Not only did Lamar sing 'Not Like Us' during his Super Bowl halftime show, but he also brought Serena Williams out on stage too.

With rumors of romance between Williams and Drake, and Drake having mentioned the tennis player and her husband Alexis Ohanian within his 2022 album Her Loss.

On the track 'Middle of The Ocean,' Drake rapped: "Sidebar, Serena, your husband a groupie / He claim we don't got a problem but / No boo, it is like you coming for sushi."

Ohanian responded on Twitter at the time and within 'Not Like Us,' Lamar states: "Better not speak on Serena."

And so including her in his Super Bowl halftime performance? Oh and bringing out SZA to perform too who was also romantically linked to Drake.

*Mic drop* or 'GAME OVER' - according to the words spelled out in the crowd at the end of the set at least.

Oscars 2025 results: the nominees and winners announced so far

Best supporting actor

Yura Borisov - Anora

Kieran Culkin - A Real Pain - WINNER

Edward Norton - A Complete Unknown

Guy Pearce - The Brutalist

Jeremy Strong - The Apprentice

Best animated feature

Flow - WINNER

Inside Out 2

Memoir of a Snail

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

The Wild Robot

Best costume design

Wicked - WINNER

Nosferatu

A Complete Unknown

Conclave

Gladiator II

Best original screenplay

Anora - Sean Baker - WINNER

The Brutalist - Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold

A Real Pain - Jesse Eisenberg

September 5 - Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum, Alex David

The Substance - Coralie Fargeat

Best adapted screenplay

A Complete Unknown - Jay Cocks and James Mangold

Conclave - Peter Straughan - WINNER

Emilia Pérez - Jacques Audiard

Nickel Boys - RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes

Sing Sing - Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar

Best make-up and hairstyling

A Different Man

Emilia Pérez

Nosferatu

The Substance - WINNER

Wicked

Best film editing

Anora - WINNER

The Brutalist

Conclave

Emilia Pérez

Wicked

Best supporting actress

Monica Barbaro - A Complete Unknown

Ariana Grande - Wicked

Felicity Jones - The Brutalist

Isabella Rossellini - Conclave

Zoe Saldaña - Emilia Pérez - WINNER

Best production design

Wicked - WINNER

The Brutalist

Dune: Part Two

Nosferatu

Conclave

Best original song

'Never Too Late' - Elton John: Never Too Late

'El Mal' - Emilia Pérez - WINNER

'Mi Camino' - Emilia Pérez

'Like A Bird' - Sing Sing

'The Journey' - The Six Triple Eight

Best sound

A Complete Unknown

Dune: Part Two - WINNER

Emilia Pérez

Wicked

The Wild Robot

Best visual effects

Alien: Romulus

Better Man

Dune: Part Two - WINNER

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Wicked

Best original score

The Brutalist

Conclave

Emilia Pérez

Wicked

The Wild Robot

Best international feature

I'm Still Here - Brazil

The Girl with the Needle - Denmark

Emilia Pérez - France

The Seed of the Sacred Fig - Germany

Flow - Latvia

Best cinematography

The Brutalist

Dune: Part Two

Emilia Pérez

Maria

Nosferatu

Best actor

Adrien Brody - The Brutalist

Timothée Chalamet - A Complete Unknown

Colman Domingo - Sing Sing

Ralph Fiennes - Conclave

Sebastian Stan - The Apprentice

Best director

Jacques Audiard - Emilia Pérez

Sean Baker - Anora

Brady Corbet - The Brutalist

Coralie Fargeat - The Substance

James Mangold - A Complete Unknown

Best actress

Cynthia Erivo - Wicked

Karla Sofía Gascón - Emilia Pérez

Mikey Madison - Anora

Demi Moore - The Substance

Fernanda Torres - I'm Still Here

Best picture

Anora

The Brutalist

A Complete Unknown

Conclave

Dune: Part Two

Emilia Pérez

I'm Still Here

Nickel Boys

The Substance

Wicked

Featured Image Credit: ABC

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