{"id":42655,"date":"2024-09-16T11:05:31","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T11:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/nicki-minaj-wants-lil-wayne-to-be-in-half-time-show\/"},"modified":"2024-09-16T11:05:32","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T11:05:32","slug":"nicki-minaj-wants-lil-wayne-to-be-in-half-time-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/nicki-minaj-wants-lil-wayne-to-be-in-half-time-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicki Minaj wants Lil Wayne to be in half-time show"},"content":{"rendered":"


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People want New Orleans native Lil Wayne to perform in his hometown<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Announcing one of the world’s hottest rap artists as the Super Bowl’s half-time headliner might seem like an obvious move.<\/p>\n

But the choice of Kendrick Lamar has prompted comments from hip-hop royalty – and some aren’t feeling euphoric.<\/p>\n

This year’s Super Bowl – where the American Football championship is decided – is being held in New Orleans.<\/p>\n

The Louisiana city is also the birthplace of Lil Wayne, who’s widely considered one of the most influential rappers ever.<\/p>\n

Nicki Minaj, Birdman, Master P and Cam\u2019ron have all said the hometown hero should have been part of the event.<\/p>\n

And many of them think that Jay-Z – who has been co-producing the NFL event since 2019, might have something to do with the decision.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Lil Wayne and Jay-Z are both huge figures in hip-hop, and there’s a lot of history between them.<\/p>\n

When Jay-Z released album Kingdom Come in 2006, Lil Wayne reportedly took issue with the rapper claiming he’d stage a comeback because “hip-hop was dead”. <\/p>\n

He’s quoted as saying: “Now he comes back and still thinks it\u2019s his house. It\u2019s not your house anymore, and I\u2019m better than you.”<\/p>\n

Speaking on his YouTube series It Is What It Is after the Super Bowl announcement, rapper Cam’ron, appearing to refer to Jay-Z, said the feud was no secret.<\/p>\n

“Lil Wayne had a problem with somebody before who\u2019s kind of part of the organisation running it,” he said.<\/p>\n

“This is payback.”<\/p>\n

Nicki Minaj also made a series of posts on X, appearing to take aim at Jay-Z.<\/p>\n

“Denying a young black man what he rightfully put into this game for no other reason but your ego,” she wrote.<\/p>\n

This might have surprised some people, because it looked like the beef had been squashed by 2015 when Lil Wayne got involved with Jay-Z’s music platform Tidal and called him his “idol”<\/a>. <\/p>\n

He also described Jay-Z as “a real friend”<\/a> in 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Lil Wayne and Jay-Z (pictured in 2015) are thought to have squashed their beef<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

What is Jay-Z\u2019s role in the Super Bowl half-time show?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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In 2019, Roc Nation – the entertainment company Jay-Z owns – announced it would work with the NFL<\/a> to “enhance live game experiences and amplify the league’s social justice efforts”.<\/p>\n

He also oversees the artists booked for the Super Bowl and produces a half-time show that, with an audience of more than 100 million, is America’s most-watched musical performance.<\/p>\n

In another post, Nicki referred to Jay-Z\u2019s partnership with the NFL at a time when former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick was under attack for kneeling during the national anthem – a show of support for Black Lives Matter.<\/p>\n

She said one “took a knee” while the other “took the bag”.<\/p>\n

Nicki also appeared to accuse Jay-Z of speaking up when it suited him, in a post that seemed to reference his wife Beyonc\u00e9. <\/p>\n

At the 2024 Grammys, Jay-Z spoke up<\/a> for Beyonc\u00e9 never having won album of the year. <\/p>\n

This week, she was not nominated for any Country Music Awards<\/a>, despite the popular hit Texas Hold ‘Em and country album Cowboy Carter<\/p>\n

“Y’all know his next move is going to be to tell y’all a ‘certain someone’ is being treated soooooo unfairly so that y’all can go back into that trance,” she wrote.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Kendrick ‘in it for the love’<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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Multiple Grammy winner Kendrick Lamar is due to headline the half-time show<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Support for Lil Wayne didn’t mean that other acts weren’t backing Kendrick.<\/p>\n

“You can love & respect Kendrick and still love & respect Wayne,” wrote Nicki.<\/p>\n

“Even Kendrick loves & respects Wayne. Every real rapper loves & respects Wayne,” Nicki wrote.<\/p>\n

In a post to his nearly four million Instagram followers, legendary rapper Master P said he saluted Kendrick and described him as “one of the hottest music artists in the world”.<\/p>\n

But he said Lil Wayne “should be a part of this celebration as well”, considering his roots and history.<\/p>\n

“He\u2019s one of the greatest [Hip Hop] artists alive, still relevant and he\u2019s a New Orleans native. <\/p>\n

“Let\u2019s not miss this cultural moment in the South… We have to give our legends their flowers while they are here.”<\/p>\n

Nicki also praised Lil Wayne, who’s known for helping artists to get a foothold in the industry.<\/p>\n

“This man has literally changed the FACE of hip hop. The hair too… He inspired so many to tat their faces & get locks.<\/p>\n

“He never was in this for the money. It\u2019s always been for the love of music,” Nicki says.<\/p>\n

But looking at current streams, Kendrick Lamar dwarfs Lil Wayne, with 68.1 million monthly listeners on Spotify, compared to 36.5 million.<\/p>\n

Kendrick is also known for being one of the most inventive lyricists hip-hop today.<\/p>\n

In 2018, he became the first hip-hop artist to win the Pulitzer Prize for music and has so far won 17 Grammy awards.<\/p>\n

BBC Newsbeat has requested comment from Jay-Z, Roc Nation and Lil Wayne – but not yet heard back.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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