Patriots Links Kobee Minor’s Draft Selection To Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Performance

So, check this out, there was a little controversy surrounding the New England Patriots and their latest draft pick. They tried to be all clever and tie it to Kendrick Lamar‘s song “Not Like Us” and Super Bowl performance.

But here’s the thing: the Patriots got some heat for it, and they had to delete the tweet for further escalating into something else.

New England used the very last pick of the Draft on Saturday to select Kobee Minor, a cornerback out of Memphis.

And the No. 257 overall selection was followed by a reference to a highly-controversial Kendrick Lamar lyric.

The Patriots’ X account posted a graphic of Minor along with the phrase ‘A Minorrrrrrrrrrrr,’ which Lamar raps in his song ‘Not Like Us’ to accuse Drake of being a pedophile.

Drake has sued Universal Music Group for defamation over the track, and the lyric was included in Lamar’s polarizing Super Bowl performance.

He recently added Lamar’s Super Bowl performance in New Orleans to his existing lawsuit, claiming that the show was defamatory as well.

As part of his performance at the Superdome, Lamar sang the controversial ‘Tryna strike a chord, and it’s probably a minor’ lyric in front of the thousands of fans in attendance and millions more watching at home.

However, he did not sing the lyric that refers to Drake as a ‘certified pedophile’ as a lawsuit loomed over the song and performance.

I mean, come on, the draft should be a time to celebrate these young guys achieving their dreams, not make them feel like they’re not worth anything. So, kudos to the Patriots for stepping up and being accountable. Let’s hope other teams take note and think twice before pulling stunts like this in the future.

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