{"id":100410,"date":"2024-09-13T09:06:43","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T13:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/09\/13\/devastated-lil-wayne-admits-super-bowl-halftime-snub-broke-him-it-hurt-a-lot\/"},"modified":"2024-09-13T09:06:43","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T13:06:43","slug":"devastated-lil-wayne-admits-super-bowl-halftime-snub-broke-him-it-hurt-a-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/09\/13\/devastated-lil-wayne-admits-super-bowl-halftime-snub-broke-him-it-hurt-a-lot\/","title":{"rendered":"Devastated Lil Wayne Admits Super Bowl Halftime Snub \u2018Broke\u2019 Him: \u2018It Hurt a\u00a0Lot\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tLil Wayne<\/a> has broken his silence about not being tapped to perform at the halftime show at the 2025 Super Bowl<\/a> in his hometown a week after the NFL announced that Los Angeles native Kendrick Lamar<\/a> will do the honors. In an Instagram post on Friday (Sept. 13), a serious-sounding explained why it took him a minute to speak out about the booking that \u201cbroke\u201d him, while expressing gratitude for the friends and peers who\u2019ve expressed support and questioned why Tunechi was passed over<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cFirst of all, I want to say forgive me for the delay. I had to get strength enough to do this without breaking,\u201d said a somber, clearly dispirited Wayne. \u201cI\u2019mma 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWayne, seated on a couch and dressed in a red, white and blue track jacket and red shorts, got super vulnerable about how the news hit him. \u201cThat hurt. It hurt a lot. You know what I\u2019m talking about. It hurt a whole lot,\u201d he said haltingly. \u201cI 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. But I thought that was nothing better than that spot and that stage and that platform in my city, so it hurt. It hurt a whole lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe pain and vulnerability clearly etched on his face, Weezy bounced from distress to gratitude for all the people who held him up after the news broke. \u201cBut y\u2019all are f\u2013king amazing. It made me feel like s\u2013t not getting this opportunity and when I felt like s\u2013t, you guys reminded me that I ain\u2019t s\u2013t without y\u2019all\u2026 and that\u2019s an amazing reality,\u201d added the 41-year-old MC who has been repping his city for three decades.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSo, like I said, it broke me and I\u2019m just trying to put me back together,\u201d he continued. \u201cBut my God, have you all helped me. Thanks to all of my peers, my friends, my family, my homies on the sports television and everybody repping me. I really appreciate that, I really do. I feel like I let all of y\u2019all all of y\u2019all down by not getting that opportunity, but I\u2019m working on me and I\u2019m working. So thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBack in February, mega sports fan Wayne openly admitted<\/a> that he coveted the halftime slot during what is typically the most-watched TV event of the year. \u201cI will not lie to you, I have not got a call,\u201d he said on YG\u2019s\u00a04Hunnid<\/em>\u00a0podcast. \u201cBut we all praying, we keeping our fingers crossed. I\u2019m working hard. I\u2019m going to make sure this next album and everything I do is killer, so I\u2019m going make it very hard for them to \u2026 I want to just make it hard for them not to highlight the boy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSince the new about K-Dot broke, a number of fellow rappers have come to Wayne\u2019s defense over what they saw as a snub of the MC whose name is synonymous with the Crescent City. Among the supporters was Lamar\u2019s chief rival Drake<\/a>, who posted a series of photos<\/a> of his mentor on Instagram on Tuesday, seemingly lining up behind Weezy without offering any context for his post. Other fellow Young Money\/Cash Money family members including Nicki Minaj and Birdman\u00a0<\/a>have also spoken up about the perceived slight.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDenying a young black man what he rightfully put into this game for no other reason but your ego. Your hatred for BIRDMAN, Drake & Nicki got you punishing Lil Wayne?!?!!! LIL WAYNE!!!!!!!!!! THE GOAT?!!!!!!!!!!! Nola what\u2019s good,\u201d\u00a0Minaj tweeted. New Orleans native and No Limit Records boss Master P also spoke out in support of Wayne, as did Cam\u2019ron and Mase<\/a>, with Cam calling the pass-over \u201cegregious.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter a dry-run sharing the stage with Dr. Dre<\/a>,\u00a0Snoop Dogg<\/a>,\u00a0Eminem<\/a>,\u00a0Mary J. Blige<\/a> and 50 Cent during the 2022 Super Bowl halftime show in Los Angeles, Grammy- and Pulitzer Prize-winner Lamar will do the honors at Super Bowl LIX at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans on Feb. 9. 2025; at press time no additional guests had been announced for next year\u2019s halftime show and Lamar had not responded to the backlash about to the Lil Wayne brush-off complaints.<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch Wayne\u2019s video below.<\/p>\n

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