On September 8, Kendrick Lamar was announced to be next year’s Super Bowl halftime performer—and shit immediately hit the fan. Longtime Lil Wayne fans and collaborators like Nicki Minaj immediately began attacking Jay-Z and the others who made the decision. Lil Wayne shared that he was hurt by not being chosen, leading to K. Dot addressing the issue on the GNX track “wacced out murals.”
“Used to bump Tha Carter III, I held my Rollie chain proud, Irony, I think my hard work let Lil Wayne down,” Lamar rapped.
Now, on December 16, Lil Wayne sat down with Skip Bayless to share what he felt about the track and K. Dot’s performance at one of the most significant sporting events of the year.
Wayne has no hard feelings
When it came to “wacced out murals,” hearing Skip read the mention to Wayne was the first time he had ever heard it (despite a November 23 post that fans thought referenced the song).
However, he said, “he is a fan like I am a fan of his music. He saw like everybody else how much it meant to me. And I think that is all he meant by that.” The Louisiana native also said he talked to Lamar and “wished him all the best and that he better kill it.”
Bayless believed politics played a role in the decision, leaving him “baffled and angry.” However, Wayne sees it now as not being his time just yet.
“For whatever reason, I believe it’s over my head…I don’t know why, period. Obviously, I believe that it’s perfect… I do not know why…The person I am? I straight look at it like, ‘you ain’t there, you gotta get there,'” the rapper said. With his debut album, Tha Block is Hot, dropping in 1999, numerous people believe this should have been when Lil Wayne got his flowers.
Back in September, Wayne said that the decision “hurt a whole lot. I blame myself for not being mentally prepared for a letdown. And for automatically mentally putting myself in that position like somebody told me that was my position. So I blame myself for that. But I thought that was nothing better than that spot and that stage and that platform in my city, so it hurt. It hurt a whole lot.”
He shared that he will be out of the country on the day of the Super Bowl, and it looks like we won’t get a joint performance from K. Dot and Wayne. Hopefully, though, the rapper will still feel the love from those who support him the most.
