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Lil Wayne has been vocal about not being chosen to carry out on the halftime present at Tremendous Bowl LIX. Saturday (Nov. 2) the multi-platinum rap celebrity addressed how he felt throughout the Lil WeezyAna Competition placed on by Dwell Nation City in New Orleans after the long-awaited Sizzling Boyz reunion. This was additionally livestreamed globally solely on Prime Video and the Amazon Music channel on Twitch.
Throughout his solo set, he exclaimed, “I stated to myself, I wish to be on stage for the Tremendous Bowl in the future in entrance of my mother. And I labored my a** off to get that f**king place and it was ripped away from me. However this motherf**king second proper right here, they will’t take that man, they will’t take that from me.”
This follows his earlier public assertion by which he passionately expressed, “I blame myself for not being mentally ready for a letdown, and for simply robotically mentally placing myself in that place like any person informed me that was my place. So I blame myself for that. However I believed that [there] was nothing higher than that spot, and that stage, and that platform in my metropolis, so it damage. It damage a complete lot.”
Artists like Drake, Nicki Minaj, Birdman, Grasp P and lots of others got here to his protection as soon as the information was introduced that Roc Nation and Apple Music would have Kendrick Lamar headline music’s largest stage in New Orleans. He would be a part of the ranks of artists like Usher, Rihanna, Shakira, Prince, Michael Jackson, Beyoncé, as artists who’ve carried out on the extremely revered platform.
One fan acknowledged, “I’m uninterested in listening to about Lil Wayne not performing on the Tremendous Bowl. Please, cease crying over this. I by no means seen an artist publicly cry over not performing on the Tremendous Bowl. I don’t care if it’s in his hometown.” Whereas another person claimed, “Lil Wayne performing good phrase for phrase at #LilWeezyanaFest straight hits and hearth deep cuts with loopy vitality I don’t wish to hear anybody say he couldn’t do the Tremendous Bowl ever once more.. probably the greatest performers EVER.”
There have been plenty of combined reactions to his feedback from followers. Lamar has but to publicly reply to his statements. The “Not Like Us” emcee has been a longtime supporter of Wayne, having collaborated on “Mona Lisa” from 2018’s Tha Carter V.