Lil Wayne responds to Kendrick Lamar’s call on ‘GNX’ album

Not like us? More like they don’t like us 🙁
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You can’t poke a bear and then ask why it bites you. Especially when the bear practically obliterated Drake multiple times this year in multiple songs, including a Grammy-nominated one. Lil Wayne Confused Why Kendrick Lamar Called Him Names in Opening Track “Wacced Out murals” in his surprise album GNX: “Bumping Tha Carter III, I held my Rollie chain proud / Irony, I think my hard work failed Lil Wayne”
Wayne must have been haunted in the middle of the night by the lyric, when on November 23 submitted at X at 4 AM ET, “Man wtf I do?! I’m just chill and dey still come 4 my head. Let’s not take kindness for weakness. Let this giant sleep. I’m begging you all. No one really wants destruction, not even me, but I will destroy if I am disturbed. On me.”

But Lamar’s name drop didn’t come out of the blue, despite what Wayne thinks. When Lamar was announced as the 2025 Super Bowl performer, Wayne took it personally since New Orleans is his hometown and he thought he was a shoo-in for the gig. “It made me feel like crap not getting this opportunity and when I felt like crap you guys reminded me that I’m nothing without you guys,” he shared in an Instagram Reel at the time. Wayne got off easy considering how “Not Like Us” went this year. Now he knows how Father John Misty must feel.