Kendrick Lamar to headline Super Bowl 59 halftime show in New Orleans (2 Viewers)

[ELLIASJWILLIAMS]

I might be in the minority that thinks after being on top for so long that people in general were just ready for Drake to take an L. When the public is ready to hang you they will, just need a nudge.

 

[No2DC]

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…….

Lil Wayne breaks silence on ‘hurtful’ Super Bowl halftime snub in emotional video

Fellow rapper Kendrick Lamar was announced as the 2025 Super Bowl Halftime headliner

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Have you ever looked at any of Wayne's old videos? I rock with my hometown, but four things bother me with the faux outage: 1) As others have said, halftime has never been about local acts. The game in LA is the only exception, I recall. 2) The cultural/music tradition is so much bigger than hip hop. We invented jazz and have local people considered among the best in several genres. Three. Wayne has some controversial social/political views and sports (the Green Bay thing is crazy, especially since Payton). Finally, K Dot is the most prominent artist (in one of the most popular genres in the world) at the moment.

 

[No2DC]

I might be in the minority that thinks after being on top for so long that people in general were just ready for Drake to take an L. When the public is ready to hang you they will, just need a nudge.

Aint' been no L like this since Ja Rule.

 

[ELLIASJWILLIAMS]

Aint' been no L like this since Ja Rule.

nah, Ja got exposed. I don't think Drake got exposed

 

[Saint KayBee]

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…….

Lil Wayne breaks silence on ‘hurtful’ Super Bowl halftime snub in emotional video

Fellow rapper Kendrick Lamar was announced as the 2025 Super Bowl Halftime headliner

www.independent.co.uk

Counterpoint: Super Bowl 59 was awarded to New Orleans in October 2020. Why wasn’t Wayne using that time between then & now to tighten up his live show and make his case unassailable? You look at recent concert footage of him, and he’s just kinda vibing out to his tracks on stage. That might be an enjoyable concert experience (I personally don’t think so, at least lead a singalong like Garth Brooks did that one time) but it’s not in line with the show of it all in recent Super Bowls.