Why Did Kendrick Lamar Wear Lowercase ‘A’ Chain at Super Bowl?

February 10, 2025 1

Kendrick Lamar‘s 2025 Super Bowl Halftime Show chain has left viewers wondering: What did the rapper’s letter “A” mean?

During his performance in New Orleans on Sunday (Feb. 9), the rapper appeared on the field wearing a diamond necklace featuring a lowercase letter “A.”

The letter holds significance to K-Dot, but many have speculated the necklace might have been a dig at fellow rapper Drake, with whom Kendrick has had an ongoing feud for most of the last year.

Why Was Kendrick Lamar Wearing a Lowercase “A” Chain at the Super Bowl?

The lowercase “A” hails from the logo of Kendrick Lamar’s multimedia communications company, pgLang.

The company was founded in 2020, by Lamar and Dave Free. Headquartered in Los Angeles, pgLang focuses on music, film, television, art, books, podcasts and clothing. PgLang aims to communicate this generation’s creative language through various mediums.

So, Dot was repping his company’s logo with the chain. Plus, he also featured the name of the company on the back of his performance jacket. The “A” also appeared on flags being waved by his crew on the Super Bowl field.

Was Kendrick Lamar’s Lowercase “A” Chain a Diss Toward Drake?

The Kendrick Lamar and Drake rap battle consumed hip-hop for much of 2024, and the public feud carried over into the Super Bowl.

In his song “Not Like Us,” Lamar raps, “Tryna strike a chord and it’s probably a minor.” The lyric serves as a double entendre, referencing both the A minor musical chord and insinuating that Drake, who Dot calls a “certified pedophile” in the song, engages in inappropriate relationships with underage individuals.

The feud escalated to legal action, with Drake filing a lawsuit against Universal Music Group over the allegations made in “Not Like Us.”

During his performance at the 2025 Super Bowl, K- Dot reignited the controversy when he sang the “a minor” lyric and pointedly dissed Drake by calling him out by name while looking directly at the TV camera.

On social media, many rap fans speculated that the chain Kendrick wore during the performance, which was literally a “minor” letter “A,” was also a diss toward Drake while others explained that it was part of the pgLang brand.