Lil Wayne appears to be responding to Kendrick Lamar’s album callout

Lil Wayne has apparently responded to Kendrick Lamar mentioning him by name on his new album. GNX.

In September, Lamar, 37, was announced as the headliner of the 2025 Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show in Wayne’s hometown of New Orleans. At the time, Wayne expressed his disappointment at not being selected for the big game, scheduled to take place on February 9 at Caesars Superdome.

On Friday, November 22, the conversation continued when Lamar mentioned the other Grammy winner by name in “Wacced Out Murals,” a track from his new album.

“Pushed earlier The Carter III, I held my Rollie chain proud / Irony, I think my hard work let Lil Wayne down / Anyway, call me crazy, everyone’s questionable / Turn me into an esk—, I got the line and pulled the decimals,” Lamar raps in the second verse.

“Won the Super Bowl and Nas is the only one who congratulated me / All these n—-s are excited, I’m just glad they showed their faces,” he adds on the track.

On November 23, Wayne apparently shared his thoughts on Lamar’s mention GNX. “Man, what should I do?! I’m just chilling and it’s still on my mind,” the rapper wrote to his followers on X (formerly Twitter). “Let us not mistake kindness for weakness. Let this giant sleep. I beg you all.”

“No one really wants destruction, not even me, but I will destroy if disturbed,” he added. “On me. Love.”

The latest developments in halftime show talk come two months after Lamar was announced as the event’s headliner on September 8 by the NFL, Apple Music and Roc Nation. Days later, Lil Wayne told fans in an Instagram video that it “hurt a lot” to find out he didn’t get the job in his hometown.

“First I want to say, forgive me for the delay,” Wayne said at the time. “I had to muster enough strength to do it without collapsing. I want to thank every voice, every opinion, all the care, all the love and support out there. Your words turned into arms, holding me up as I tried to back away.

“It hurt a lot,” he continued. “I blame myself for not being mentally prepared for disappointment and automatically mentally putting myself in that position as if someone told me that was my position. But I thought there was nothing better than this place and this stage and this platform in my city,” so it hurt.

While the “A Milli” rapper said it “made me feel like I didn’t get this opportunity,” he thanked his supporters for reminding him that he “ain’t shit without y’all and that.” is amazing.” Reality.”

“Like I said, it broke me and I’m just trying to get myself back together, but my God, did you all help me,” Wayne added. “Thank you to all my colleagues, my friends, my family, my friends on sports television and everyone who represents me. I really appreciate it, I really do. I feel like I let you all down by not getting this opportunity, but I’m working on myself and I’m working, so thank you.”

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“At that moment I said to myself, I want to be on stage in front of my mom at the Super Bowl one day,” Wayne said. “And I worked my ass off to get into this f—— position and it got ripped away from me. But this damn moment here? They can’t take this, man.” . They can’t take that away from me.”

Lamar’s latest album marks his first full release since his high-profile diss exchange with Drake in the spring. GNX features two collaborations with SZA and production work from Jack Antonoff. The album delves into other events surrounding Lamar’s back-and-forth with Drake – such as Snoop Dogg apparently re-releasing Drake’s diss about “Taylor Made Freestyle” earlier this year.

Lamar is up for four Grammy nominations in 2025 for “Not Like Us,” the most commercially successful of his Drake responses.