Lil Wayne reveals he’ll never play a Super Bowl Halftime Show, says the NFL “fucked up”

Lil Wayne has revealed he’ll never play a Super Bowl Halftime Show and says the NFL “fucked up”.

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When it was announced that the 2025 Halftime Show would be hosted in New Orleans, several prominent rappers like Nicki Minaj and Birdman argued Wayne should have played his hometown show over Kendrick Lamar, who went on to headline instead.

However, in an interview with Rolling Stone, Wayne has revealed that despite campaigning for the spot, the NFL “fucked up”. He told the magazine that “to perform, it’s a bunch of things they’re going to tell you to do and not do, asses to kiss and not kiss.

“If you notice, I was a part of things I’ve never been a part of,” he continued. “Like [Michael] Rubin’s all-white parties. I’m doing shit with Tom Brady. That was all for that. You ain’t never seen me in them types of venues. I ain’t Drake. I ain’t out there smiling like that everywhere. I’m in the stu’, smokin’ and recording.”

However, when Wayne was snubbed in favour of Lamar, he claimed that NFL apologised to him as the league “ain’t in charge” of the Halftime Show: “All of a sudden, according to them, they got curved. So, I’m going to have to just settle with whatever they say.”

As a result, the rapper told Rolling Stone he didn’t watch Kendrick Lamar’s performance, saying: “Every time I looked, it was nothing that made me want to go inside and see what was going on.” He also added that after the debacle, he would never play a Halftime Show if offered the chance: “They stole that feeling. I don’t want to do it. It was perfect.”

When the news broke that Lamar would play the Halftime Show over Wayne, he initially responded to the snub by admitting that it “hurt a lot”: “I blamed myself for not being mentally prepared for a let down which is automatically mentally putting myself in that position like somebody told me that was my position. So I blamed myself for that.”

Lamar would go on to reference the snub when he surprise-dropped his new album, ‘GNX’ in November last year: “Used to bump Tha Carter III, I held my Rollie chain proud / Irony, I think my hard work let Lil Wayne down”.

Wayne took to social media to respond to the namecheck, writing: “Man wtf I do?! I just be chillin & dey still kome 4 my head. Let’s not take kindness for weakness. Let this giant sleep. I beg u all. No one really wants destruction, not even me but I shall destroy if disturbed. On me. Love.”

However, Wayne eventually said he and Lamar made up over a phone call, adding: “I’ve spoken to him, and I wish him all the best and I told him he better kill it. He gotta kill it.”

In other news, Lil Wayne has announced the release date for ‘The Carter VI’.

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