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.
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.”
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.
“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.”
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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.”
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.
“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.
What is this ugly overrated motherfucker known for again? Impregnating that dirty ass smelly homeless look alike Erykah Badu and dating that jxwish Rothschild heir in London. If the black community is represented and led by such clowns no wonder why white people are not takin black folks seriously.
I always felt Electronica is the homeless one. He’s a bum that finds himself with successful woman, that I believe provide food and shelter for him. When he is single, I’m pretty sure he sleeps inside of a car.
@Donald Trump Fck Donald-trailer trash god-Trump. Fck MAGA. The End.
Gem Lord’s mad, lol . Does Big Bad Donald hurt your little feelings 🥺
Man went from dissing 50 Cent a few years ago to praising him, lol. Also, he shouldn’t be talking about who’s not from Magnolia because no one in New Orleans ever heard of this man or knows where he came from…
He’s known, just missed his chance at fame by procrastinating. He’s a lyricist. I’ve seen him perform at House of Blues a couple of times. Once with Nas and Talib Kweli.
This is NOT 2009. Its not Lil Wayne’s moment. People can’t overlook the impact of Not Like Us and the pop up concert from the summer, just because you’re in Wayne’s hometown. Thats a very BASIC approach to this.
Of course he did.. Biggest flop in the rap game. All that hype and no show. Him and Canibus should collab. Tel lhim I said Christ is KING>!
Agreed. These barrel crabs are exhausting. Got unlimited smoke for each other, but none for any other group. Matter fact they’ll join the oppressor to gang up on their own. Talking about you, Black MAGA.
Of course you back Jay-Z, it a F N no brainer. You been riding Jay’s joint for years so why stop now, it’s what you do best. Carry on!!!