Lil Wayne has reportedly recorded a response track to Kendrick Lamar after he namedropped him on his latest album GNX.
Speaking on his eponymous podcast, Joe Budden claimed that Weezy had tried to get in touch with Kendrick Lamar to iron out their issues, but after his attempt was unsuccessful, he chose a different course of action — one, seemingly, less amicable.
“I’m hearing that somebody picked up the phone, tried to call and see what the energy was. I’m hearing that Kendrick didn’t answer,” the former Slaughterhouse rapper said.
Co-host Lamar “Ice” Burney then interjected to point out that Kendrick is known to “go months without a phone,” as he revealed in a 2021 letter prior to the release of Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, which might explain why he allegedly didn’t pick up.
“Yeah but if I’m calling you, rapper to rapper, and you don’t answer, it’s like what Mark [Lamont Hill] told fucking [Queenz] Flip when they had their shit,” Budden said. “Now, I’m going in the booth. You have until I get in that booth to hit me back.”
When asked if he was talking about Wayne, Budden replied: “Yes,” adding: “I’m hearing that Wayne went in the booth.”
Lil Wayne allegedly tried calling Kendrick Lamar after being name-dropped on 'GNX' but got no answer, so he went in the booth to respond 👀
(via The Joe Budden Podcast) pic.twitter.com/dCqsxodWzT
— Kurrco (@Kurrco) November 27, 2024
The claim comes after Kendrick Lamar publicly addressed Lil Wayne — who he’s long cited as one of his favorite rappers — on “wacced out murals,” the thunderous opening song from GNX.
Responding to the rap legend’s comments about not being selected to perform at next year’s Super Bowl in his hometown of New Orleans — a gig that was given to Kendrick — he rapped: “Used to bump ‘Tha Carter III,’ I held my Rollie chain proud / Irony, I think my hard work let Lil Wayne down.”
He also spit: “Won the Super Bowl and Nas the only one congratulate me / All these n-ggas agitated, I’m just glad they showed they faces / Quite frankly, plenty artists but they outdated / Old-ass flows, tryna convince me that you they favorite.”
The Young Money founder didn’t take kindly to the track, hitting back on X (formerly Twitter) soon after: “Man wtf I do?! I just be chillin & dey still kome 4 my head. 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. On me. Love.”
Months earlier, Lil Wayne posted a somber video on Instagram expressing his disappointment at being overlooked for the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show, a slot he had openly coveted.
“That hurt. It hurt a lot,” he said in part. “I thought there was nothing better than that spot and that stage and that platform in my city.”
He added: “It broke me and I’m just trying to put me back together.”
While he didn’t mention (or congratulate) Kendrick in the video, it only fueled outrage over the NFL’s decision to book the Compton rapstar instead of the New Orleans native.
Shortly before, a number of Wayne’s rap peers including Nicki Minaj, Birdman, Juvenile and Cam’ron angrily spoke out against the perceived snub.
Much of this frustration was aimed at JAY-Z, who has helped organize the Super Bowl halftime show since 2020 as a partner of the NFL.
“It’s one person who’s stopping this. It’s not really a secret,” Cam said on his sports talk show It Is What It Is. “Lil Wayne had a problem with somebody before who’s kinda part of the organization running it. This is payback. Who’s Lil Wayne’s artist? Drake. This is crazy, bro. It’s ridiculous.”
Idk why people think that just because the SuperBowl is in an artist hometown, that means that they must be chosen to perform. Wayne was passed on because he’s unreliable, he gets wasted at his shows and forgets lyrics. If he wants to be mad at someone, be mad at Jay Z. He’s the one who passed on having you there. Rappers today are way too emotional
It’s not just today. Rappers have always been emotional. It’s why diss tracks lead to murders. Dudes are closet homos for the most part, so a diss track is like your wife cheating on you to them. Hurts em deep. Deep inside.
Cries about not getting the SB nod when he didn’t deserve it…. doesn’t man up and congratulate the rapper that actually got it….. has a terrible track record in diss songs….. claims on social media not to wake a sleeping giant, despite the fact he was only addressed to point out points 1 & 2…. Good luck in this battle Wayne.
you really think lil wayne who is from NO and has been rapping since 1997. who has countless platinum albums and even more platinum records. who sweep the grammy’s for the carter 3 doesn’t deserve it. if that’s not hating at its peak. gOoD LuCk In ThE BaTtLe. he should be upset. jay denied him because he doesn’t like wayne.
Wayne worked his ass off for decades. Kendrick copies snoop dogg and yet somehow gets the rewards wayne should have gotten?
Name a good Snoop Dogg album, I’ll wait. Even the white people who worship him can’t name one. Snoops even did an album with DJ drama recently that no one gave AF about.
@hah snoop has sucked for many many years, but don’t pretend Doggystyle wasn’t a great album. Introspective? Not at all. Enjoyable? Yes. Probably deserves a spot somewhere in the top 50 to 100 hiphop albums. Definitely more of a classic than any Wayne or Kendrick album. But at least Snoop still sounds like Snoop today. Kendrick sounds NOTHING like he used to. He sounds like a gay dude cumming on the mic lately. Idk wtf the guy is doing, he’s nothing like he was 2009-2014.
Shut your dumb ass up Big Gay Dan 😂
@Dan Doggystyle. That ‘s a 1 hot album every lifetime average for him so far. Snoop Dogg and The Eastsidaz was dope too. But that was a collab donit doesn’t count
Wayne boutta detroy him
Nah
Wayne boutta detroy him
Love how you quoting Kendrick while siding with wayne.
Destroy him?! The same way Wayne “destroyed” Pusha T on Ghoulish? Yeah, Wayne ain’t doing shit bro.
@B you retard, Kendrick quoted Wayne when he said that LOL… and I’m not even a wayne fan. Both are shit now.
What song Wayne say it in? Kendrick must have took his line and made it famous then.
Weezy about to get WASHED and his fan base about to realize how wack he is 🤣
Anyone congratulating anyone for slobbing on the NFL’s fundamentally racist azz illuminati knob is an idiot. Wayne is easily a better rapper than Drake or KDot for that matter any day of the week. But they’re all idiot pawns in real life. The paradoxes abound.
Did y’all care about Lil Wayne not doing the Super Bowl in New Orleans in 2013?
The sleeping gecko 🦎 will lose. He needs to lean back from this beef. Before he ends up like that carpetbagging, colonizer Karen he cursed Hip Hop with. You know, the one who fxcked his girl while he was in prison.