“It was ripped away from me,” Lil Wayne tells a crowd of his fellow New Orleanians during his annual Weezyana Fest. In September, Kendrick Lamar was chosen to headline the Super Bowl Halftime performance. The decision was met with an onslaught of criticism especially from Lil Wayne’s Young Money/Cash Money family members Nicki Minaj and Birdman.

Lil Wayne did admit to feeling “hurt” by the decision, but his latest comments indicate that this hurt runs deep. That said, witnessing the festival’s turnout gave him something that the Super Bowl cannot. “I worked my a** off to get in that position and it was ripped away from me,” Lil Wayne tells the crowd. “But this motherf*king moment right here? They can’t take that.”

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