Lil Wayne has appeared to reply to being namechecked on ‘Wacced Out Murals’ from Kendrick Lamar’s new album ‘GNX’.
Yesterday (November 22), Lamar shock launched the document, his first full-length launch since 2022’s ‘Mr. Morale & The Massive Steppers’. ‘GNX’ options manufacturing from Jack Antonoff, Kamasi Washington, Mustard, Terrace Martin and Sounwave and likewise contains uncredited visitor vocals from SZA.
The album’s opening observe is ‘Wacced Out Murals’, on which Lamar raps, “Used to bump Tha Carter III, I held my Rollie chain proud / Irony, I feel my exhausting work let Lil Wayne down”.
Referencing Wayne’s traditional 2008 album, Lamar would appear to be referring to the truth that he was chosen to headline the 2025 Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present forward of Wayne.
“Received the Tremendous Bowl and Nas the one one congratulate me / All these n***** agitated, I’m simply glad they showin’ they faces,” Lamar continues on the observe.
Now, Wayne has had his say on the callout, writing on X on Saturday (November 23): “Man wtf I do?!”
Man wtf I do?!
I simply be chillin & dey nonetheless kome 4 my head. Let’s not take kindness for weak spot. Let this big sleep. I encourage u all. Nobody actually needs destruction,not even me however I shall destroy if disturbed. On me. Love— Lil Wayne WEEZY F (@LilTunechi) November 23, 2024
“I simply be chillin & dey nonetheless kome 4 my head. Let’s not take kindness for weak spot. Let this big sleep. I encourage u all. Nobody actually needs destruction, not even me however I shall destroy if disturbed. On me. Love.”
Shortly after Lamar was chosen for the 2025 Tremendous Bowl, which is being held in Wayne’s hometown of New Orleans, the ‘A Milli’ rapper let his emotions be identified.
“That damage. Harm rather a lot, you understand what I’m speaking about, damage a complete lot,” he sain in an Instagram put up. “I blamed myself for not being mentally ready for a let down which is robotically mentally placing myself in that place like someone informed me that was my place. So I blamed myself for that.”
“However I believed that was nothing higher than that spot on that stage on that platform in my metropolis. So it damage. It damage a complete lot. However Y’all are fucking superb. It made me really feel like shit not getting this chance and once I felt like shit, you guys jogged my memory that I ain’t shit with out y’all and that’s an incredible actuality. So, like I stated, it broke me and I’m simply attempting to place me again collectively. however my god, the place ever you’re assist me.”
‘Wacced Out Murals’ additionally features a reference to Snoop Dogg, with Lamar rapping, “Snoop posted ‘Taylor Made,’ I prayed it was the edibles/I couldn’t imagine it, it was solely proper for me to let it go.”
The lyrics reference Drake’s ‘Taylor Made Freestyle’, one entry in the 2 MCs’ epic back-and-forth diss observe feud earlier this 12 months, which included an AI model of Snoop’s voice. Drake ultimately eliminated the tune from his social media and different streaming platforms after Tupac’s property threatened to sue him.
Snoop has reacted to Lamar’s point out of him, taking to X to say: “Ok dot new album GNX,” adopted by a collection of fireplace emojis. “It was the edibles west west king.”
Father John Misty has additionally reacted to the discharge of ‘GNX’, noting that but once more Kendrick has launched an album in the identical 12 months as he has. On this case, Misty’s ‘Mahashmashana‘ was launched on the identical day, and now the singer-songwriter has shared his personal diss observe focused at Lamar, within the type of ‘God’s Trash’.
