50 Cent’s Opinion on Kendrick Lamar & Lil Wayne Super Bowl

50 Cent shares his opinion on the Kendrick Lamar and Lil Wayne 2025 Super Bowl performance controversy.

50 Cent Discusses Kendrick Lamar and Lil Wayne

On Friday (Sept. 13), 50 Cent sat down for an interview with CBS’ The Talk. He said Kendrick Lamar fully deserves to be headlining the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show.

“I mean, it was a choice,” 50 admitted. “I think Kendrick deserves, as a solo artist right now, he’s the guy. But having the game be in New Orleans, having the game be played in New Orleans I can see why they got the Wayne – I think the way the last show was put together with me, Eminem, Dr. Dre, Kendrick was there then and Mary J. Blige.”

Co-host Sheryl Underwood then said K-Dot could still bring out Juvenile and other New Orleans guests to make it up to the fans, but 50 said Kendrick should bring out the people he worked with first and foremost.

“He should bring out the people that he featured on big records with,” 50 continued, before going on to share his thoughts about Kendrick’s beef with Drake as a whole.

“I think it’s good for the culture,” the G-Unit leader concluded. “Both Drake and Kendrick produced quality music faster because they had to compete with each other. That competitive nature made them go work and have responses. Hip-hop is not a genre where you can just make a song and sit back. You gotta make a song and be ready to make a song again right away.”

After news spread about Kendrick Lamar being picked to perform at Super Bowl LIX, Lil Wayne finally addressed the drama on Instagram and admitted he was hurt.

“[Not being picked] hurt,” Weezy said. “It hurt a lot. I blame myself for not being mentally prepared for a letdown. For just automatically mentally putting myself in that position like someone told me that was my position.”

50 Cent is just the latest rapper to sound off on the controversy. Multiple rappers have voiced their disapproval that Wayne wasn’t picked to perform in his hometown, with some people blaming Jay-Z. What made it worse was that Lil Wayne has expressed his desire to perform at the big game on multiple occasions.

Read More: Lil Wayne Admits He’s Hurt and Wasn’t Mentally Prepared for Super Bowl Halftime Snub

Watch 50 Cent discuss Kendrick Lamar and Lil Wayne below.

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