Lil Wayne says Super Bowl snubbed him for halftime show: ‘That broke me … it hurt a lot’
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.”
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. “I thought there was nothing better — that spot, on that stage, on that platform.”
“It broke me, but I’m just trying to put myself back together,” Wayne said. He had expressed his desire to play the show multiple times over the years. The game is scheduled to take place at New Orleans’ Caesars Stadium on Feb. 9.
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. Nicki Minaj, a Wayne protege, was among the first to speak out.
While Lamar is arguably the greatest and most influential rapper in the world at the moment, Wayne’s legacy in music is enormous and began much earlier — back in the ‘90s when he emerged as a precocious teenaged rapper with the Hot Boyz. Although he essentially relocated to Miami years ago, he remains inextricably connected to New Orleans.
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