Lil Wayne Appears to Respond to Kendrick Lamar Mentioning Him on New Album: 'I Shall Destroy If Disturbed'

Mar. 15, 2025

Kendrick Lamar; Lil Wayne.Photo:Getty(2)

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Lil Waynehas seemingly responded toKendrick Lamarname-dropping him on his new album,GNX.

In September, Lamar, 37, was announced as the 2025Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Showheadliner in Wayne’s hometown of New Orleans. At the time, Wayne expressed his disappointment overnot beingselected to perform at the big game, which is set to take place at Caesars Superdome on Feb. 9.

“Used to bumpTha Carter III,I held my Rollie chain proud / Irony, I think my hard work let Lil Wayne down / Whatever though, call me crazy, everybody questionable / Turn me to an esk—, I drew the line and decimals,” Lamar raps in the second verse.

“Won the Super Bowl andNasthe only one congratulated me / All these n—-s agitated, I’m just glad they showin' they faces,” he adds on the track.

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

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

Kendrick Lamar (left) and Lil Wayne.Arturo Holmes/MG23/Getty; Paras Griffin/Getty

Arturo Holmes/MG23/Getty; Paras Griffin/Getty

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

“It hurt a whole lot,” he continued. “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. But I thought there was nothing better than that spot and that stage and that platform in my city, so it hurt.”

While the “A Milli” rapper said it “made me feel like s— not getting this opportunity,” he thanked his supporters for reminding him that he “ain’t s— without y’all, and that’s an amazing reality.”

Lil Wayne at Lil Weezyana Fest 2024 on Nov. 2, 2024 at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans.Erika Goldring/Getty

Erika Goldring/Getty

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As seen in footagelater shared on X, Wayne also told fans at his Lil Weezyana Fest earlier this month that he felt the Super Bowl performance was “ripped away” from him.

“That moment I said to myself, I want to be onstage for the Super Bowl one day in front of my mom,” Wayne said. “And I worked my ass off to get in that f—— position, and it was ripped away from me. But this motherf——- moment right here? They can’t take that, man. They can’t take that from me.”

Lamar’s latest album marks his first full-length release following hishigh-profile exchange of disses with Drakein the spring.GNXfeatures two collaborations withSZAand production work fromJack Antonoff. The album addresses other happenings surrounding Lamar’s back-and-forth with Drake — such asSnoop Doggapparently reposting Drake’s “Taylor Made Freestyle” diss earlier in the year.

Lamar is up forfour 2025 Grammy nominationsfor “Not Like Us,” the most commercially successful of his Drake responses.

source: people.com