- Kendrick Lamar surprise released new album GNX on Friday
- Lamar raps about being chosen for the Super Bowl over Lil Wayne
- Lil Wayne has now responded to Lamar calling him out on the album
Kendrick Lamar surprise dropped a new album, GNX, on Friday (November 22) after a busy year that’s seen him beef with Drake and be announced as next year’s Super Bowl halftime show headliner.
The album is the follow-up to 2022’s Mr Morale and the Big Steppers and various Drake diss tracks released earlier this year. One of these is Not Like Us, which broke Spotify’s record for the most streams of a hip-hop song in one day.
Its opening track wacced out murals references Lamar headlining the Super Bowl half-time show next year over Lil Wayne – and now Lil Wayne has clapped back at him.
“I think my hard work let Lil Wayne down”
Lamar landing the Super Bowl gig in New Orleans next February led some fans to question why Wayne – who is from New Orleans – wasn’t chosen instead.
On wacced out murals, Lamar addresses this – “I used to bump Tha Carter 3 [Wayne’s 2008 album]/ I held my Rollie chain proud/ Irony, I think my hard work let Lil Wayne down.” Later, he raps: “Got the Super Bowl and Nas the only one congratulate me.”
Now, Wayne has hit back at Lamar. “Man wtf I do?!” he wrote on X. “I just be chillin & dey still kome 4 my head. Let’s not take kindness for weakness. Let this giant sleep. I beg u all. No one really wants destruction, not even me but I shall destroy if disturbed. On me. Love.”
Man wtf I do?!
— Lil Wayne WEEZY F (@LilTunechi) November 23, 2024
I just be chillin & dey still kome 4 my head. Let’s not take kindness for weakness. Let this giant sleep. I beg u all. No one really wants destruction,not even me but I shall destroy if disturbed. On me. Love
“That hurt. Hurt a lot, you know what I’m talking about”
After numerous rap stars including Nicki Minaj, Master P and Cam’ron, said he should have been headlining the show in his home city, in September Wayne said the alleged snub “broke” him.
“First of all I want to say forgive me for the delay. I had to get the strength to do this without breaking. I must say thank you to every voice, every opinion, all the care, love and support. Your words turned into arms and held me up when I tried to fall back,” he began.
“That hurt. Hurt a lot, you know what I’m talking about, hurt a whole lot. I blamed myself for not being mentally prepared for a let down which is automatically mentally putting myself in that position like somebody told me that was my position. So I blamed myself for that.
“But I thought that was nothing better than that spot on that stage on that platform in my city. So it hurt. It hurt a whole lot. But Y’all are f**king amazing. It made me feel like s**t not getting this opportunity and when I felt like s**t, you guys reminded me that I ain’t s**t without y’all and that’s an amazing reality. So, like I said, it broke me and I’m just trying to put me back together. but my god, where ever you are help me.”
The rapper concluded: “Thanks to all of my peers, my friends, my family, even my homies on the sports television and everybody repping me I really appreciate it, I really do. I feel like I really let all of y’all down by not getting that opportunity but, I’m working on me and I’m working. Thank you.”
