Lil’ Wayne dropped some MAJOR shade in a Rolling Stone interview. The rapper, who graces the quilt of the most recent subject, says the NFL fumbled the bag by passing him up for the Tremendous Bowl halftime present in his hometown of New Orleans.
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Wayne Didn’t Watch Kendrick’s Efficiency
Wayne instructed the magazine he’s finished chasing that Tremendous Bowl dream. “They stole that feeling,” he mentioned, making it crystal clear he’s over it at this level. “I don’t need to do it. It was good.” And y’all, he didn’t even hassle watching Kendrick Lamar’s efficiency on the Caesars Superdome on Feb. 9. As a substitute, he was busy taking part in pool with Lil’ Twist.
The Younger Cash founder expressed:
“Each time I seemed, it was nothing that made me need to go inside and see what was happening.”
Weezy Shares Why He Thinks He Wasn’t Picked
Spilling extra tea, Wayne admitted he went all out to try to safe the halftime spot. He even says he was doing issues that will normally be out of his character, akin to rubbing elbows at Michael Rubin’s all-white events and kicking it with Tom Brady.
“To carry out, it’s a bunch of issues they’re going to let you know to do and never do, a**** to kiss and never kiss,” he shared. “You ain’t by no means seen me in them kinds of venues. I ain’t Drake. I ain’t on the market smiling like that in every single place. I’m within the stu’, smokin’ and recording.”
The journal additionally famous that Wayne instructed their publication in a 2023 interview that he was hopeful of acting at SB in NOLA.
Wayne Didn’t Take NFL’s Choice Properly
When Kendrick was introduced because the headliner in September, Wayne hopped on IG Stay and mentioned he blamed himself for not being “mentally ready for a letdown.” At Lil Weezyana Fest, he mentioned the efficiency was “ripped away” from him. In the meantime, there was an intense uproar from followers and his trade buddies, together with Nicki Minaj, who had been very vocal concerning the NFL’s determination. Nicki, particularly, stood DOWN for Wayne and pushed a few of that blame onto Jay-Z. Hov, by way of Stay Nation, serves because the NFL’s reside music leisure strategist and co-producer of the NFL halftime present, which selects performers.
Evidently, Kendrick and Wayne’s followers had been divided. Some had been joyful for Ok-Dot whereas others thought-about it a slap within the face for Weezy. The ‘Be Humble’ rapper tried to clean issues over, name-dropping Wayne on his ‘GNX’ album with the road, “I believe my arduous work let Lil Wayne down.” Wayne, being the category act he’s, mentioned on ‘The Skip Bayless Present’ that he and Ok-Dot talked it by way of and he wished him properly.
Regardless of working issues out with Kendrick, nonetheless, Wayne nonetheless wasn’t displaying as much as the Tremendous Bowl in New Orleans. He made that clear on IG, saying, “Y’all know I’m not going to be there this week.” Only a week after dodging the sports activities occasion fully, he made a shock look on the ‘Saturday Night time Stay’ fiftieth anniversary particular as a substitute. IKTR.
Wayne Addresses Viral Trump Photograph
Elsewhere, the ‘A Milli’ lyricist additionally touched on that notorious 2020 picture he took with Donald Trump that had the web in a chokehold. Again in October of that yr, Wayne had social media GAGGING when he dropped the pic on his social media and talked about having had a “nice assembly” to debate legal justice reform. The publish sparked controversy and drew appreciable criticism. However Wayne didn’t sweat it, recalling how he loved his lil’ kiki with the President.
“My mama woulda been mad if I ain’t smile. That may have been the one backlash I might have frightened about,” he mentioned. Wayne described Trump as an “a**gap of a wisecracker,” whose antics had the rapper laughing continuous. “Ain’t take nothing critical. Actually in there saying s**t like, ‘What do now we have to do once more?’ S**t, I forgot.’”
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