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Kendrick Lamar lastly broke his silence on Lil Wayne and the controversy surrounding subsequent yr’s Tremendous Bowl LIX halftime present. The Compton native wasted no time addressing it in “wacced out morals,” the very first monitor from his shock album, GNX, which dropped Friday (Nov. 22).
Scheduled to headline the soccer occasion on Feb. 9, 2025, the Nobel Prize winner will take the stage at Caesars Superdome, proper in Wayne’s hometown of New Orleans.
“Used to bump Tha Carter III, I held my Rollie chain proud/ Irony, I feel my onerous work let Lil Wayne down/ No matter, although, name me loopy, everyone questionable/ Flip me to an Eskimo, I drew the road and decimals,” Lamar rapped, seemingly in reference to Wayne’s speech about not being chosen because the headliner.
In September, the Younger Cash rapper admitted that the choice “damage an entire lot.” He added, “I blame myself for not being mentally ready for a letdown.” Wayne clearly wasn’t the one one outraged, with Birdman, Nicki Minaj and tens of millions of followers debating the result on social media for weeks on finish.
Wayne went on to handle the Tremendous Bowl LIX controversy once more at 2024’s Lil Weezyana Competition, the place he claimed the headlining slot was “ripped away” from him. “I labored my a** off to get that f**king place,” he instructed the gang.
Later, in Lamar’s “wacced out murals” verse, the West Coast lyricist touched on Snoop Dogg reposting Drake’s “Taylor Made Freestyle.” The monitor, which referenced Taylor Swift, included an AI-generated likeness of Tupac Shakur, which was shortly pulled after the late rapper’s property issued a stop and desist.
“Snoop posted ‘Taylor Made,’ I prayed it was the edibles/ I could not imagine it, it was solely proper for me to let it go,” Lamar unloaded over Sounwave and Dahi’s manufacturing. He continued, “Received the Tremendous Bowl and Nas the one one congratulate me/ All these n**fuel agitated, I am simply glad they showin’ they faces.”