Lil Wayne seems to have made amends with Kendrick Lamar after it was announced that the latter would be headlining the Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show in New Orleans in February. The former claimed that he wished the latter the best, subsequently leading to Adam22 questioning Wayne’s loyalty to Drake.
During an appearance on The Skip Bayless Show, Lil Wayne revealed that he and Kendrick Lamar spoke about the latter being chosen to perform at the halftime show. Wayne said on December 16:
“I’ve spoken to him, and I wished him all the best. I told him he better kill it.”
This comes after Wayne expressed disappointment over not being chosen to perform on the stage. He said in a September 13 Instagram live stream:
“I thought there was nothing better than that spot, that stage, that platform, in my city. So it hurt, it hurt a lot.”
Adam22 and Wack 100 discussed the same on the No Jumper podcast episode Jay Z Innocent! Wayne & Kendrick Peace it Up. Bhad Bhabie vs Alabama Barker. Wack vs Top5 & More, released on December 23. Adam 22 said on the show:
"It would appear that Wayne's loyalty towards Drake, we don't know exactly where it stands."
He further added:
“If Wayne was really riding with Drake, he's not hopping on the phone and having a cool conversation where he tells Kendrick to go and kill it. What does that mean? What does 'go kill it at the Super Bowl' mean? It means go tell the whole world that Drake is a p**ophile, that's what that means.”
“Drake ain’t Wayne”- Wack 100 weighs in on Lil Wayne discussing matters with K.Dot
Adam 22 was referring to the rap battle between Drake and Kendrick Lamar that took over timelines this summer, where the two rappers were releasing diss tracks against each other. K. Dot also called Drizzy a “p**ophile” in his record-breaking Drizzy-diss track Not Like Us this year.
As Adam22 shared his opinion on Lil Wayne’s loyalty towards Drizzy, Wack 100 opined:
“Drake ain't Wayne... He [Lil Wayne] birthed him [Drake]. He hadn’t retired. He was still climbing. Without f**king Wheezy saying- “Okay, I’ma work with that, it wasn’t going to happen […] what Wayne did was some grown man s**t. I don’t think Drake looking at it that way. I would hope he didn’t look at it that way. Wayne and Kendrick have their relationship.”
Kendrick Lamar chose to address the Super Bowl controversy on his latest album, GNX’s wacced out murals track. The Grammy-winner crooned:
“Used to bump ‘Tha Carter III/ I held my Rollie chain proud/ Irony, I think my hard work let Lil Wayne down.”
Meanwhile, further during his appearance on The Skip Bayless Show, Wheezy commented on the lyric and what he felt K. Dot was trying to say. Wheezy said:
“I think he just means… his hard work is the reason why he made it there and obviously ‘let me down’ is me just being upset.”
Lil Wayne and Kendrick Lamar had collaborated on the former’s track Mona Lisa in 2018. In a 2022 The Coveteur interview, K. Dot called Wheezy the “greatest” because of the impact he had on the hip-hop “culture.”