Lil Wayne Says NFL Had Him Jump Through Hoops, Only to Give SB Show to Kendrick Lamar

3 days ago

Nearly 133 million people watched Kendrick Lamar diss Drake during this year's Super Bowl LIX halftime show ... but Lil Wayne swears he wasn't one of them!!!

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00:00Lil Wayne is making something a lot clearer to me now, and I think to all of his fans.

00:06When Kendrick Lamar got the Super Bowl halftime show, there were a lot of people who were upset

00:11that because it was in New Orleans that it didn't go to Wayne.

00:14Right, including Wayne was upset.

00:15And Wayne was very vocal about how upset he was, and that was odd to me.

00:20I was like, why is he wearing his heart on his sleeve so publicly over something like this?

00:25Celebrities normally—

00:25It was almost like therapy.

00:26I mean, he was so disappointed.

00:28Well, now I think I understand it because he says that this was something—

00:33him getting the Super Bowl halftime show was dangled in front of him for months,

00:37and he changed his life and did things that he wouldn't normally do, thinking that that was going to happen.

00:45So he had the rug pulled out.

00:46Exactly. That's what he's saying now.

00:48Yeah, what he's saying is basically the NFL used him as a pawn.

00:52Like, he said, like, any time you saw him with Tom Brady or Fanatics or, you know,

00:57even a Michael Rubin white party, it was all for show.

00:59The NFL told him to get his public appearances up, you know, get people used to seeing him.

01:04And then when it came time for the Super Bowl, they gave it to Kendrick.

01:07So I'm confused.

01:08Was the show—the purpose of the show that they would pay homage to New Orleans,

01:13even though they knew they weren't going to get a New Orleans artist?

01:17No, that he was going to be the artist.

01:19But why would they do that?

01:20Why would they lead him down the path if they wanted Kendrick?

01:23I don't understand.

01:24Well, basically, it said—the NFL told him that they had nothing to do with it.

01:29It was basically on Jay-Z and Roc Nation.

01:31But why would Jay-Z and Roc Nation string him along like that if they always had Kendrick?

01:36Yeah, because Jay-Z and Roc Nation are in lockstep with the NFL when it comes to selecting who's going to be—

01:43I don't understand why they'd lead him down the path.

01:45Yeah, but it makes sense to have—it makes sense to have multiple candidates.

01:47But going into it, Kendrick just blew up.

01:49Not Like Us became one of the biggest rap songs of all time.

01:53So, you know, it just made sense for Kendrick to do the Super Bowl.

01:55Well, but then the way you're putting it, it's not so much that they led him down a path that they never intended to follow.

02:02They were going to, but then things just—

02:04And then Kendrick blew up, and they just said, we got to pivot.

02:07Right.

02:07It sounds like they decided they got to pivot.

02:10But for Lil Wayne, you understand—

02:11He just thinks, I'm getting it.

02:12I'm getting it, and I'm getting it, and I'm not.

02:14Yeah, and that's clearly upsetting.

02:17By the way, he didn't say he has an issue with Kendrick.

02:21And I think even Wayne understands how big Kendrick was, and that was a moment for him.

02:27But still, I feel badly for him that he's going along for months thinking, all right, this is happening.

02:32And then it doesn't.

02:33Hi, it's Carrington from Houston, Texas, and I just wanted to say I'm a huge Lil Wayne fan, but I think two things can be true.

02:42Lil Wayne, they don't normally have the artists from the city where the Super Bowl is performing, and also it's a lung capacity thing.

02:50Lil Wayne, I don't know if you could last the whole Super Bowl performance seeing how you smoke every day.

02:55You want to play a game?

02:56Oh, boy.

02:57Yeah.

02:57Okay, we're going to roll that video of Lil Wayne outside near a car that we just played.

03:04If you can tell me the building behind, right there, that round building, we'll give you a TMZ t-shirt.

03:10That round, record-like building.

03:13What's the name of it?

03:14Rock Nation?

03:15I have no idea.

03:16It's Capitol Records.

03:17Capitol Records.

03:18But we'll send you a t-shirt anyway.

03:20We should say Lil Wayne revealed all this to Rolling Stone.

03:25One other thing about the Super Bowl halftime.

03:28Drake was watching, or at least his lawyers were, because now he has amended his lawsuit against Universal Music Group saying that the whole performance was an assassination of his character.