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>> good evening. thank you for joining us. with just three days to the super bowl, the big game's halftime headliner, kendrick lamar, a key player in a hip hop beef for the ages. damning accusations, a real-life shooting and now a lawsuit. who will reign supreme? here's abc's megan wright. >> kendrick. look up, look up, look up. >> think you've seen rap feuds before? you haven't seen anything like this one. >> hip hop has never seen a beef quite like this. two hip hop titans going head to head. pop music had madonna and cyndi lauper. hip hop has drake and kendrick lamar. a clash of titans, the pulitzer winning super bowl headliner. >> kendrick lamar and i'll be performing at super bowl 59, meet me in new orleans. >> and winner of five grammys this year, including the coveted record of the year for not like us. >> we're going to dedicate this one to the city, compton watts. yeah.

>> kendrick lamar is having the best week ever. >> versus the second most streamed artist of all time, with club hits like nice for what? >> but it's all right. it's a short life. >> drake has always had commercial success and has been able to sell out arenas and stadiums. >> these are the two icons. he has a huge artist. he has the biggest of the biggest. >> some celebs taking sides. >> who is winning? >> oh, kendrick. >> i think drake. >> oh, you think drake and you think kendrick. >> it's easy to make up lyrics like it's no drake. >> wow. >> i think in some ways it's pretty difficult to track the origin of where things went left between kendrick and drake. but what seems to be like the common denominator is that they both wanted the throne, and something happened. >> this past summer's rap battle between drake and kendrick lamar, and now it's at the center of a legal dispute. >> at the heart of that bombshell lawsuit that has everyone talking. kendrick

lamar's record breaking smash single not like us. >> drake, i hear you like them young. you better not ever go to cell block one to any that talk to him and they in love. just make sure you hide your little sister from them. >> now drake is suing the record label that represents them for defamation. >> he's arguing that the lyrics of not like us that say he's a certified pedophile or that he likes underage women are unfounded and that they didn't do their due diligence. >> umg has denied all wrongdoing, but the saga has the entire universe talking about it. >> i think that kendrick would love the mainstream success that drake has been able to accumulate, and i think on the other side, drake would love to get the validation and the street validation that that kendrick has. long before they were bashing each other publicly, drake and kendrick were both budding stars in the industry. >> kendrick and drake both came

to prominence around the same time, and they worked together on a couple of tracks. >> but the onetime collaborators would soon turn into foes. after kendrick name dropped every major rapper on big sean's control in 2013. >> that goes for jermaine coby, chris riley, pusha t, meek mill, asap rocky, drake, big sean, jay electronica, tyler mac miller, i got love for you all, but i'm tryna murder you. >> a lot of his peers and contemporaries, they appreciated the competitive nature because hip hop is a competitive sport. but for drake, who had just brought him on tour with him, had given him shared his platform with him, he was a little taken back. >> drake tried to play it down in a crown interview with elliott wilson for watch loud. >> that verse had no malice behind it, because i saw him five days later at the vmas and it was all love. >> after a decade of exchanging subtle barbs in 2023, their feud reached new heights when the diss tracks began. when drake drops first person shooter with

j. cole, they claim that the two of them, plus kendrick, are the top three rappers in the game. >> love when they argue the hardest emcee is it? is it aubrey or me? we the big three like we started a league. but right now i feel like muhammad ali. >> that seemed to set kendrick off. he wanted to make it known that there's only one king and like that with future and metro boomin. >> i think i won't drop the location. i still got ptsd, mother. the big three. it's just big me. >> with the battle in full swing, drake and kendrick both dropped back to back records, but the biggest blows are still to come. drake released a song accusing kendrick of domestic violence and kendrick releasing another going after drake's entire family. >> it was a horror film lyrically, because within those four verses he's addressing not only drake's son adonis, drake's father dennis drake's mother sandra, he's also addressing this alleged daughter, which was a bombshell that everybody in

hip hop, he nuked them. he nuked them. at that point. >> not even 24 hours later, kendrick drops what goes on to be the anthem of the summer, and at the heart of drake's subsequent lawsuit, not like us. >> sometimes you gotta pop out and show certified boogeyman. i'm the one that upped the score with them on certified lover boy certified pedophiles. >> drake's immediate response was another diss track, the heart part six. first i was a rat. so where's the proof of the trial? then where's the paperwork of the cabinet? it's filed in. >> so he's pretty much saying, you're making all of these claims. show me the facts, show me the paperwork. >> but the real paperwork was filed in court when drake sued. not kendrick lamar, but universal music group or umg, which represents both artists. >> all of these lyrics, and even more, is at the heart of drake's lawsuit because he's saying he's not a pedophile. he's never been adjudicated or even arrested or charged as one. he's not in any kind of sex offender

registration list. and so all of these allegations are defamatory, and they go directly to the harm that he points out, or even just his reputation falling by the wayside because of it. >> claiming these accusations led to a harrowing shooting that injured one of drake's bodyguards. the suit also alleging that the record label promoted kendrick at the expense of drake's career. umg saying in a statement, in part, not only are these claims untrue, but the notion that we would seek to harm the reputation of any artist, let alone drake, is illogical, further saying he now seeks to weaponize a legal process to silence an artist's creative expression and to seek damages from umg for distributing that artist's music. we have not, and do not engage in defamation against any individual. we will vigorously defend this litigation. abc news reached out to both drake and kendrick lamar's team for comment. drake's team did not respond. kendrick's team declined to comment. >> i don't remember anybody suing anybody because of a rap

beef. are you guys taking the fun out of the art? maybe. does drake have a stance where he feels like it's a defamation of character? i don't know, he got bruised. he didn't get killed. >> rap feuds have been engrained in hip hop culture since the mid 80s. from roxanne shante hitting back at the rap trio utfo with roxanne's revenge to cardi b and nicki minaj igniting a feud in 2017. but perhaps the biggest of all goes to the notorious b.i.g. and tupac shakur. >> what people don't understand is that biggie and pac were really friends. really friends. this is big. >> dj enuff was biggie's tour dj. he had a front row seat to how the feud played out. >> lil kim i always felt like with these rap beefs, if they could all keep it on record, if they could all keep it on stage, that's to me where i want it. but biggie died. pac died. something was terribly wrong.

>> and then all of a sudden, it wasn't funny anymore because we lost both of them in a very short period of time. it was beef. it was hip hop with that. losing them was not hip hop. >> this is not drake's first beef. in fact, he became known for them, the rapper poking fun at himself in an snl sketch back in 2016. >> hey, anybody using this chair? >> actually, i was using it was for my hat, but you took it from me. now we never going back. >> do you think that this records are a part of hip hop culture? >> to a certain degree, yes. i mean, i know everything has always been about boasting and bragging, and that's always been a part of, like, who we are and we're telling stories. and half of the stories are fake. you know, like a lot of these guys portrayed gangster, but they're not gangsters. the real gangsters want to be rappers and the rappers want to be gangsters. it's a tale. >> in the battle of the wordsmith versus the hitmaker, each rapper now fighting for the

top spot in hip hop. >> at the end of the day, kendrick should continue riding this wave. he's about to go on world tour, so show the world what a lot of us have known about you for so long and moving forward. drake also is about to go on tour, but i think the beauty, at least i'm hoping with the beauty is, is one day they can get back together and maybe give us some good music together, and maybe they will both win a grammy for that one. >> our thanks to megan. for more on this story, watch impact by nightline. kendrick versus drake the feud now streaming on hulu. when we return, emily in paris star lily collins and her husband targeted online after using a surrogate to help start using a surrogate to help start their family. uc with tremfya... ak away from

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watched newscast. >> welcome back. beginning a family is one of life's great joys. so imagine the shock and sadness of couples using surrogates to welcome new additions, only to then be attacked. emily in paris star lily collins, among those facing it firsthand. here's abc's stephanie ramos. >> lily to the right. >> lily collins is used to the glare of the spotlight. she's a staple on red carpets promoting movies or her hit show, emily in paris. >> in paris. >> the actress and daughter of musician phil collins was basically born into fame. but her latest headlines likely came as a bit of a shock. now, the actress sits at the center of the newest surrogacy controversy as she and her husband push back against online critics as the public weighs in about when, if

ever, surrogacy is an accepted way to expand families. >> i just kind of wanted to hug her and say, i got you, girl. like i got you. but the more that we tell our stories, the more we will be able to maybe not change minds that can never be changed, but open minds that don't quite understand. >> the emily in paris star and her husband, charlie mcdowell made their announcement on instagram, introducing their baby girl named tove, saying, quote, words will never express our endless gratitude for our incredible surrogate and everyone who helped us along the way. we love you to the moon and back again. and while many of the comments were incredibly supportive, others were not. taking to the comments section himself, collins husband wrote, it's okay to not be an expert on surrogacy. it's okay to not know why someone might need a surrogate to have a child, and it's okay to spend less time spewing hateful words into the world, especially in regards to

a beautiful baby girl. the topic kicking off conversations online and of course with the ladies of the view. >> a pro-family world we live in that's all about life, all the time. the second someone has it, we tear them down. >> and it's. >> disgusting and. >> despicable for people to judge them, for wanting to bring love into this world and a family into this world. i just think it's horrible. >> collins is hardly the first celebrity to use a surrogate. in recent years, many stars have been public about their difficulty expanding their families. >> having a. >> family and having. >> children is. >> what i've always been meant to do. >> paris hilton spoke to abc back in 2023 about the importance of motherhood. both her children were carried by surrogates. actress olivia munn welcomed her second child last fall thanks to a surrogate, after munn was diagnosed and treated for breast cancer. >> you never know what's going on in someone's life, you know that that privately people are battling things that that you'd

never know. >> oh my god, oh my god, are you kidding me? >> that's a journey sarah bentley knows. well, she was just 38 years old when she found a lump in her breast. within days, she was diagnosed with stage two breast cancer. >> the thought of my baby coming was what got me through breast cancer. >> sarah posted all about her diagnosis and surrogacy journey online. she's received plenty of support, but like lily collins, she says there are haters too. what are some of the things people have said to you about this journey, and how do you respond to them? >> people said it was modern day slavery. we would get handmaid's tale. we got a lot of if god wanted you to be a mom, then you'd be able to have a baby. at the end of the day. i never responded to any of them. i wanted to, but you know, you can't engage with terrorists, right? you can't engage with keyboard warriors because they're they're not there to

have a conversation. >> she and her now husband, james, had always planned to have children. luckily, she was able to begin fertility treatments as she also prepped for a double mastectomy and chemotherapy. >> we are en route. to the second egg harvesting. we were able to create one healthy embryo that we named chance. >> sadly, sarah's doctors advised against trying to carry the pregnancy herself. what was that like for you that moment? >> yeah, i'm already crying. you bringing me back to hearing those words that i think it's one of the most difficult things that you can face is as a woman who, who really has dreamt of being a mom is to lose the ability to do that. >> the search for a surrogate brought her right back to social media. >> there's so much unknown about surrogacy and so much misinformation out there. so i

started the surrogacy diaries where i told the good, the bad, and the ugly. >> sarah says finding the right surrogate is like dating and chemistry is everything. eventually, they were paired with whitney, a nurse from virginia and single mother of two. >> we met her. >> and she had a smile that could light up the room, a fabulous sense of style, and i was like, i think this is my girl. >> the embryo transfer was successful, and sarah and james traveled from new york to virginia several times, making sure to stay involved in whitney's pregnancy. >> hello, guy. mama loves you. he's perfect, you guys. >> chance was born at a whopping 10 pounds in december 2023. sarah and whitney now consider each other family, facetiming regularly and visiting each other. i mean, it really seems like a solid partnership between the two of you that you developed. >> a partnership for sure. a friendship and then a sisterhood. >> sarah co-founded a nonprofit

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>> and finally tonight, with just three days left till the big game, the musical guests will bring their a game to super bowl 59, ready for their close up. >> if i quit your bm, i still ride mercedes funk. >> kendrick lamar with mega hits like humble. >> my left stroke just went viral. >> says he's proud to be the first solo rap artist to perform at the show. >> this is a true art form, so the represented on this type of stage is like everything that i've worked for. >> the lineup of pregame artists are all louisianans. jon batiste says his rendition of the national anthem will be inspired by his late grandfather. >> you know anything great about me? he was one of the blueprints of that. >> channeling the spirit of the ancestors. good for him. that's nightline for this evening. catch your full episodes on hulu. we'll see you right back here. same time tomorrow. thanks

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