Lil Wayne ruled out ever playing the Super Bowl halftime show after he was passed over for this year’s event.
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“They stole that feeling,” he tells Rolling Stone in a recent interview. “I don’t want to do it. It was perfect.”
Wayne said his frustration stems not just from being overlooked, but from the NFL allegedly making him feel like he was a frontrunner for the gig.
“To perform, it’s a bunch of things [the NFL] going to tell you to do and not do, a–es to kiss and not kiss,” he said. “If you notice, I was a part of things I’ve never been a part of. Like [Michael] Rubin’s all-white parties. I’m doing s— with Tom Brady. That was all for that,” Wayne continued. “You ain’t never seen me in them types of venues. I ain’t Drake. I ain’t out there smiling like that everywhere. I’m in the stu’, smokin’ and recording.”
Wayne says he didn’t even tune in when it came time for the actual show. Instead, he spent the night playing pool with Lil Twist and taking smoke breaks.
“Every time I looked, it was nothing that made me want to go inside and see what was going on,” Wayne said.
He added: “They coulda had some music… But instead, they got rappin’. They f—ed up.”
Despite his criticism of the event, Wayne made it clear that there’s no bad blood between him and Kendrick Lamar. Wayne even called him ahead of the Super Bowl to to give him some words of encouragement.
The Grammy winner has been open about being disappointed that he wasn’t selected for the gig in his hometown of New Orleans.
After Lamar was announced as the headliner in September, Wayne said in an Instagram Live video, “I blame myself for not being mentally prepared for a letdown and for automatically mentally putting myself in that position like somebody told me that was my position.”
