Dr. Dre has long been one of Kendrick Lamar's mentors, and when K. Dot clashed with Drake last year, it's obvious what side the West Coast legend was going to be on. Dre joined the debut episode of interview series The Unusual Suspects With Kenya Barris and Malcolm Gladwell on Thursday (Jan.

Any pending lawsuits from disgruntled rappers will NOT have any impact on Kendrick Lamar’s halftime performance.

Dre is a mentor to Kendrick and was a special guest at his ‘Pop Out’ concert in Los Angeles last summer, where he performed many of his tracks that take aim at Drake, and he is a huge fan of his Grammy nominated hit ‘Not Like Us’. The sold-out show broke attendance records for the venue.