Lil Wayne is speaking out about being regularly left out of major music events.
On Saturday (April 18), the 43-year-old rap legend took to social media to express frustration about being “uninvited & uninvolved” in annual events like the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival and the Grammy Awards.
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“It’s truly a humbling experience when events like Coachella & the Grammys come around & like clockwork,I’m uninvited & uninvolved,” Weezy wrote on X. “I appreciate my position or space I hold in ya heart & mind if so bc you’re the humbling experience that’s timeless & 4dat I thk u. Iaintshitwithoutu.”
Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst jumped into the comments to offer his support. “Let’s start our own experience gathering and our own acknowledgment event to welcome all of the uninvited – i’ve got a couple ideas i’ve been working on for quite some while now – happy to elaborate if ever interested – sending good vibes,” Durst wrote.
Wayne’s post comes about a year after the Tha Carter VI rapper was passed over to headline the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show in his hometown of New Orleans. Kendrick Lamar was ultimately selected to perform at the Caesars Superdome following the momentum of his Billboard Hot 100-topping hit “Not Like Us.”
In September 2024, Lil Tunechi opened up about how painful it was to miss out on the Super Bowl halftime performance in his own city.
“That hurt. It hurt a lot. You know what I’m talking about. It hurt a whole lot,” the rapper said at the time. “I blame myself for not being mentally prepared for a letdown. And for automatically mentally putting myself in that position like somebody told me that was my position. So I blame myself for that. But I thought that was nothing better than that spot and that stage and that platform in my city, so it hurt. It hurt a whole lot.”
Months later, he told a crowd at Lil WeezyAna Fest in New Orleans, “I told myself I wanted to be on that stage in front of my mom, and I worked my ass off for that position. It was ripped away from me, but this moment right here… they can’t take this away from me.”
While Lil Wayne has never performed a solo set at Coachella, he did make a surprise appearance during G-Eazy’s set at the Indio, California, festival in 2016.
As for the Grammys, Weezy has received 28 nominations over the course of his career and has won five awards, including best rap album for Tha Carter III at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards in 2009. That same year, he made his Grammy stage debut performing “Swagga Like Us” alongside M.I.A., T.I., Jay-Z, and Kanye West (now Ye).
See Lil Wayne’s post on X below.
It’s truly a humbling experience when events like Coachella & the Grammys come around & like clockwork,I’m uninvited & uninvolved. I appreciate my position or space I hold in ya heart & mind if so bc you’re the humbling experience that’s timeless & 4dat I thk u. Iaintshitwithoutu
— Lil Wayne WEEZY F (@LilTunechi) April 18, 2026
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