Conan O’Brien’s 2025 Oscars Monologue Writer defends Kendrick Lamar and Drake Joke

Conan O’Brien: s joke writer stands at that Kendrick Lamar and Drake joke.

During 2025 OscarsHost O’Brien, 61, referred directly to the ongoing feud between rappers Drake, 38 and Lamar, 37 and a line in the latter Diss track “Not like us“who won five Grammys on 2025 Grammy Awards.

“We are halfway through the show, which means it’s time for Kendrick Lamar to come out and call Drake a pedophile,” said O’Brien under his monologue on Sunday, March 2, Telecast and in front of the living audience. “Don’t worry, I’m a lawyer,” he added and referring to Drake’s moods against Universal Music Group.

Shortly after O’Brien made Quip celebrated the comedian’s joke writer Skyler Higley the success of the joke on X.

“Kendrick Lamar wrote joke and bet on our executive producer 50 $ that it would kill. Just earned $ 50, ”he wrote.

Higley too jokey Later in the evening, “Someone put me in contact with Kendrick please.”

Higley acts as personnel writers for After midnight and previously wrote for O’Brien’s TBS Talkshow, Conan.

“The thought that it is taken as a real exclamation or taking pages in any way in the beef is absurd,” Higley told TMZ On Monday 3 March.

He added that the joke was not O’Brien took pages, without simply referring to Feud’s cultural relevance In the past year, including Lamars February 2025 Super Bowl Halftime Performance.

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Higley referred to Sunday 9 February, Half -time show At Caesar’s superdome in New Orleans when Lamar performed “not like us.”

During the song, Lamar Drake calls a pedophile and a “colonizer” and rapes the notorious lyric, “Tryna strikes a chord and it is probably a minor.” Lamar changed a particularly scandalous lyric and omitted the last word from the line “Certified be Boy? Certified Pedophiles”, which is referring to Drakes 2021 album Certified lover boy.

The song was originally released in May 2024. In response, dragon into a mood Against Universal Music Group, his own record label since 2009, to release and market the track.

On November 25, 2024, Drake submitted a legal presentation against Iheart Media and Universal Music Group, claiming that the company “launched a campaign to manipulate and saturated the streaming services and air waves” with Lamar’s tracks, according to court documents obtained by PEOPLE. UMG – which represents both Lamar and Drake – denied the allegations in a statement to people.

The Associated Press On February 28, reported that Drake reached a settlement with iHeart media over “not like us.” According to court documents obtained by AP, the rapper’s legal team confirmed: “The parties could reach a solution satisfactorily against both sides.”