Lil Wayne Expresses Disappointment after Kendrick Lamar Takes Stage at Super Bowl Halftime Show: ‘I Felt Like S**t’
"Y’all are f**king amazing. It made me feel like s**t not getting this opportunity. When I felt like s**t you guys reminded me that I aint shit without y’all. That’s an amazing reality.
"It broke me and I’m just trying to put me back together.”
The NFL has consistently attracted the world’s biggest artists to perform on its grandest stage, without spending a fortune on the performances.
Over the past decade, stars like Eminem, The Weeknd, Shakira, Justin Timberlake, and Coldplay have taken the spotlight as Super Bowl halftime show performers, but the NFL didn’t pay them hefty fees. Similarly, Kendrick Lamar will not receive a large paycheck from the league for his performance in New Orleans next year.
Instead of high-paying contracts, Super Bowl halftime performers receive a modest union scale fee, far less than the six- or seven-figure earnings they usually make from concerts. The halftime show offers these artists a major opportunity to increase album sales and promote their tours, rather than earning them a big paycheck.
However, the NFL did pay once in 1993, when they donated $100,000 to Michael Jackson’s Heal the World Foundation after his halftime performance. Interestingly, Kendrick Lamar's 2025 performance won’t be his first at the Super Bowl; in 2022, he joined Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg as a guest performer during the Super Bowl show when Matthew Stafford led the Los Angeles Rams to victory over the Cincinnati Bengals at SoFi Stadium.
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