Lil Wayne has made his first assertion after not being chosen to headline the Tremendous Bowl. Showing in a video, Weezy F Child thanked his followers for supporting him.
“Initially, I wanna say forgive me for the delay,” Wayne stated. “I wanna say, to start with, I needed to get energy. I needed to get energy sufficient to do that with out breaking. I wanna say thanks. I wanna say thanks to each voice, each opinion, all of the care, all of the love and the assist on the market. Your phrases become arms and held me up after I tried to fall again. That damage. Harm lots. what I’m speaking about. It damage a complete lot.
“I blame myself for not being mentally ready for a letdown and for simply mechanically mentally placing myself in that place like any individual instructed me that was my place. So I blame myself for that.”
With widespread assist that Lil Wayne ought to have the Tremendous Bowl stage in NOLA, Drake posted photos on-line. It’s value noting that Drake’s present foe, Kendrick Lamar, has the Tremendous Bowl spot.
Drake displaying like to Lil Wayne on his IG Story‼️👀 pic.twitter.com/4WJZd80wJk
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Drake posts Lil Wayne through IG 👀🔥 pic.twitter.com/svtvYv6N65
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Kendrick Lamar’s choice because the Tremendous Bowl halftime performer has rubbed members of the Hip-Hop neighborhood the mistaken manner. Many, together with Wayne’s engineer, Marasciullo, imagine it ought to have been Lil Wayne.
“Confused. Dissatisfied. Indignant. However most of all, impressed,” Marasciullo wrote. “Won’t ever once more be ready or have the 🐐 ready the place we’re on the mercy of another person’s determination. We’ll make the choices.”
Kendrick Lamar will take heart stage on the Apple Music Tremendous Bowl LIX Halftime Present at The Caesars Superdome in New Orleans on February 9, 2025. Roc Nation, Apple Music, and the NFL made the announcement right now, sparking pleasure for the globally anticipated efficiency.
Shawn “JAY-Z” Carter, founding father of Roc Nation, praised Lamar’s affect: “Kendrick Lamar is actually a once-in-a-generation artist and performer. His deep love for hip-hop and tradition informs his inventive imaginative and prescient… His affect shall be felt for years to come back.”
Seth Dudowsky, Head of Music on the NFL, echoed this sentiment, saying, “Few artists have impacted music and tradition as profoundly as Kendrick Lamar… Kendrick has confirmed his distinctive capacity to craft moments that resonate, redefine, and in the end shake the very basis of hip-hop.”
Apple Music’s Oliver Schusser emphasised the joy: “Apple is thrilled to carry this present, starring the completely incomparable Kendrick Lamar, to followers worldwide with Apple Music’s industry-leading Spatial Audio high quality.”
Lamar, a Grammy and Emmy-winning artist and co-founder of pgLang, continues to redefine hip-hop, incomes accolades like a Pulitzer Prize for his 2017 album DAMN. and his chart-topping collaborations earlier this yr.
PgLang will creatively direct Lamar’s Tremendous Bowl efficiency, which shall be produced by DPS. Roc Nation’s Jesse Collins will function govt producer, and Hamish Hamilton will function director.
Apple Music’s ongoing partnership with the NFL and Roc Nation has already produced record-breaking halftime exhibits. With Kendrick Lamar on the helm, this yr’s efficiency is ready to be one other groundbreaking second in Tremendous Bowl historical past.
