Lil Wayne has spoken out about being passed over for the 2025 Super Bowl Halftime show, admitting that the ordeal “broke” him.
Over the weekend,
Jay-Z, whose company
Roc Nation helps the
NFL select the halftime performer,
announced that fellow rapper Kendrick Lamar had been selected as the headliner for the February event.
Wayne, 41, has since addressed the devastating blow in a new video posted to Instagram on Thursday (September 12).
“First of all, I want to say forgive me for the delay. I had to get strength enough to do this without breaking,” the “Love Me” rapper began somberly. “I’mma say thank you to every voice, every opinion, all the care, all love and support out there. Your words turned into arms and held me up when I tried to fall back.”
“That hurt. It hurt a lot. You know what I’m talking about. It hurt a whole lot,” he said.
“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,” he continued, adding that it hurt even more given that the game will be held in his hometown of New Orleans…….
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