Nearly a week after Kendrick Lamar was announced as the headliner of the Super Bowl Halftime show, New Orleans native Lil Wayne has admitted that not being chosen for the spot “broke me.”“That hurt, it hurt a lot,” he said in a video statement posted on Friday morning to Instagram.
Almost immediately after Lamar, a Los Angeles native, was announced as the headliner for the 2025 Super Bowl Halftime show, uproar began online over him being chosen instead of Wayne.
Complicating the situation further, Super Bowl entertainment is overseen by Jay-Z’s Roc Nation company, although the NFL and the city of New Orleans also played a role in the pick.
Your words turned to arms and held me up when I tried to fall back.”“(Not being picked) hurt — it hurt a lot,” Wayne continues.
“Kendrick Lamar is truly a once-in-a-generation artist and performer,” Jay said of Lamar in the Super Bowl Halftime announcement on Sunday.
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