Lil Wayne really wanted to headline the Super Bowl Halftime Show. Earlier this year, the Super Bowl came to New Orleans, Wayne’s hometown, and he waged a public campaign to get the Halftime Show. It didn’t happen. That spot instead went to Kendrick Lamar, currently at the peak of his commercial powers. When Kendrick was announced as the headliner, Wayne went on Instagram Live and spoke about his disappointment: “It hurt a whole lot… It broke me.” There were rumblings that those comments might lead to a beef between Wayne and Kendrick, past collaborators and mutual admirers. That didn’t happen, and Wayne and Kendrick remain cool. But in a new Rolling Stone cover story, Wayne remains resolute that the NFL “fucked up.”
