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,

The Drake and Kendrick storyline refuses to die. His camp has denied trying to block K Dot from performing "Not Like Us" at the Super Bowl.