Jay Electronica has come to JAY-Z‘s defense amid the intense commentary surrounding Lil Wayne not being chosen as the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show performer.
The announcement that Kendrick Lamar will perform at Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans next February has been met with with outrage among many Lil Wayne fans (and even peers), who feel that Weezy should’ve been given the gig considering the Big Game takes place in his hometown.
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Taking to X on Wednesday (September 11), Jay noted he has no respect for people are coming for Hov but not for major music executives. He also seemed to take a jab at Birdman and the Cash Money crew over their treatment of Hot Boyz member Turk, but then said he’d still go to war in defense of his fellow New Orleans natives.
“N-ggas got all this smoke for Hov but they ain’t got no smoke for David Geffen and jimmy iovine and lucían grange and lyor cohen etcetera etcetera,” he began. “I DO NOT RESPECT YOUR GANGSTER. You pussy. And let’s be real. @50cent just opened an entire industry in shreveport and these pussy ass nights slave cooning over a football game. If you don’t get the fuck outta my face.”
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He continued: “And how you niggas did Turk was dirty and lame. ESPECIALLY since he REALLY MAGNOLIA and yall not. Get it how you live. I’m sawry potnaaaaa.
“And how yall so quick to let yall gun bust at your brother over nothing. If yall would put 10 percent of this negative energy over a FOOTBALL game into unifying for one common cause, our ppl would be free overnight.
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“And finally, I will die in the war with the common enemy on the spot for Birdman and BG and Wayne and whoever else the same way I would Hov. We all we got. But who is man enough to say enough is enough.”
Niggas got all this smoke for Hov but they ain’t got no smoke for David Geffen and jimmy iovine and lucían grange and lyor cohen etcetera etcetera. I DO NOT RESPECT YOUR GANGSTER. You pussy
— J A Y E L E C T R O N I C A (@JayElectronica) September 11, 2024
And let’s be real. @50cent just opened an entire industry in shreveport and these pussy ass nights slave cooning over a football game. If you don’t get the fuck outta my face
— J A Y E L E C T R O N I C A (@JayElectronica) September 11, 2024
And how you niggas did Turk was dirty and lame. ESPECIALLY since he REALLY MAGNOLIA and yall not. Get it how you live. I’m sawry potnaaaaa.
— J A Y E L E C T R O N I C A (@JayElectronica) September 11, 2024
And how yall so quick to let yall gun bust at your brother over nothing. If yall would put 10 percent of this negative energy over a FOOTBALL game into unifying for one common cause, our ppl would be free overnight. Salaaam Alaikum
— J A Y E L E C T R O N I C A (@JayElectronica) September 11, 2024
And finally, I will die in the war with the common enemy on the spot for Birdman and BG and Wayne and whoever else the same way I would Hov. We all we got. But who is man enough to say enough is enough.
— J A Y E L E C T R O N I C A (@JayElectronica) September 11, 2024
Jay Electronica is not the only one coming to JAY-Z’s defense, however. As Fat Joe argued on Instagram Live on Tuesday (September 10), the Marcy Projects mogul has given Hip Hop a deservedly bigger platform at the Super Bowl since he partnered with the NFL in 2019.
“Years ago, the beef with the NFL was that Black people weren’t represented and they were doing us wrong, even though we were the talent and whatever the case,” he said. “But then they brought in JAY-Z and Roc Nation to do the shows and they brought out Dr. Dre, Eminem, Rihanna, number one ratings — they killing it.”
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Joey Crack also pointed out that the halftime show performer isn’t JAY-Z’s decision alone so it’s unfair to solely blame him for any perceived snub.
“Yeah, JAY-Z’s a big voice but, you know, he gotta go through the NFL ranks, the Roger Goodells and everything like that, so they can come up with who’s performing at halftime,” he continued. “It ain’t just one man’s decision — that I know of. So to just blame one man…”
The Terror Squad don ended his argument by joking: “If he wasn’t doing the halftime [with] Roc Nation, there’d be no Hip Hop! ‘Cause there never was Hip Hop [before 2022]. You’d be listening to, ‘Don’t go messin’ with a cotton-eyed boy/ Cotton-eyed Joe/ Cotton-eyed Joe.’ You’d be listening to that shit at halftime.”
Fellow New Yorker Fabolous echoed some of Fat Joe’s sentiments while discussing the controversy during his own Instagram Live broadcast earlier this week.
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“I do see people blaming it solely on JAY-Z when I don’t think that’s the truth,” he said. “I think it’s a committee, it’s a board, it’s different people who come in to play when decisions like that are made.”
Fab, who has worked with both JAY-Z and Lil Wayne, acknowledged that a Weezy Super Bowl halftime show in New Orleans would’ve been special, but he suspects that Kendrick Lamar’s resounding victory over Drake in their high-profile feud sealed the deal.
