Lil Wayne seems to be responding to Kendrick Lamar’s album call

Lil Wayne has apparently reacted to Kendrick Lamar naming him on his new album, GNX.

In September, Lamar, 37, was announced as the 2025 Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show headliner in Wayne’s hometown of New Orleans. At the time, Wayne expressed his disappointment at not being selected to perform at the big game, which is set to take place at Caesars Superdome on February 9.

On Friday, November 22, the conversation continued when Lamar mentioned the other Grammy winner by name i “shaken murals,” a track from his new album.

“Used to bump Tha Carter III, I held my Rollie chain proud / Irony, I think my hard work failed Lil Wayne / Whatever, call me crazy, everybody doubt / Make me an esk—, I drew the line and the decimals,” Lamar raps in the second verse.

“Won the Super Bowl and Nas the only one congratulated me / All these n—-s fired up, I’m just glad they show their faces,” he adds on the track.

On Nov. 23, Wayne apparently shared his thoughts on Lamar’s mention of GNX. “Man wtf I do?! I just be chillin & dey still come 4 my head,” the rapper wrote to his followers on X (formerly Twitter). “Let us not mistake kindness for weakness. Let this giant sleep. I beg you all.”

“No one really wants destruction, not even me, but I will destroy if I am disturbed,” he added. “On me. Love.”

The latest development in the halftime show conversation comes two months after Lamar was announced by the NFL, Apple Music and Roc Nation as the headliner for the Sept. 8 event. Days later, Lil Wayne told fans in an Instagram video that it “hurt a lot” to find out he didn’t get the concert in his hometown.

“First of all, I want to say forgive me for the delay,” Wayne said at the time. “I had to gain enough strength to do this without breaking down. I have to say thank you to every voice, every opinion, all the care, all the love and support out there. Your words became arms and held me up when I tried to fall back.”

“It hurt a lot,” he continued. “I blame myself for not being mentally prepared for a setback and automatically mentally putting myself in the position that someone told me was my position. But I thought there was nothing better than that place and that stage and that platform in my city so it hurt.”

While the “A Milli” rapper said it “made me feel like I didn’t get this opportunity,” he thanked his followers for reminding him that he’s “not a— without you guys and that’s an amazing reality.”

“Like I said, it broke me and I’m just trying to pull myself together, but my God, you all helped me,” Wayne added. “Thank you to all my peers, my friends, my family, my sports TV boyfriends and everyone who represents me. I really appreciate it, I really do. I feel like I let you all down by not get that opportunity, but I’m working on me and I’m working, so thank you.”

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As seen on recordings later divided by XWayne also told fans at his Lil Weezyana Fest earlier this month that he felt like the Super Bowl performance was “torn away” from him.

“That moment I said to myself, I want to be on stage at the Super Bowl one day in front of my mom,” Wayne said. “And I struggled to get into that f—– position and it was ripped away from me. But this mom—— moment right here? They can’t take that, man . They can’t take that away from me.”

Lamar’s latest album marks his first full-length release since his high-profile exchange of disses with Drake this spring. GNX features two collaborations with SZA and production work from Jack Antonoff. The album addresses other events surrounding Lamar’s back-and-forth with Drake — such as Snoop Dogg apparently reposting Drake’s “Taylor Made Freestyle” diss earlier this year.

Lamar is up to four 2025 Grammy nominations for “Not Like Us,” the most commercially successful of his Drake responses.