Lil Wayne Calls Grammy and Coachella Snubs “A Humbling Experience”
The Grammy winner voiced his frustrations with being looked over at some of this year’s biggest musical events.
Lil Wayne attends the 59th Annual Country Music Association Awards at Bridgestone Arena on November 19, 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee.
Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for CMA.
Lil Wayne is feeling left out–and it’s making the rap superstar do some reflecting. The Grammy winner shared his thoughts on not being a part of this year’s Grammys or being booked for Coachella. On Saturday, April 18, Weezy expressed his frustration on X, referencing not being a part of recent popular music events.
"It’s truly a humbling experience when events like Coachella & the Grammys come around & like clockwork, I’m uninvited & uninvolved," he wrote. "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."
It follows similar commentary from the New Orleans rap icon in recent months.
In February, Wayne seemed to take exception to the fact that he wasn’t asked to perform or participate at the Grammys. “Congrats to the nominees and winners. Wasnt included. As usual. I gotta work harder. As usual,” he wrote at the time, while also referencing famed coach Bill Belichick, who was controversially passed over for the Pro Football Hall Of Fame in January
A year earlier, when Kendrick Lamar performed for the Super Bowl IX Halftime Show in Wayne’s hometown of New Orleans, it was clear that many fans wanted Wayne to perform or appear.
“To perform, it’s a bunch of things they’re going to tell you to do and not do, a**es to kiss and not kiss,” Lil Wayne would later say to Rolling Stone. “If you notice, I was a part of things I’ve never been a part of. Like [Michael] Rubin’s all-white parties. I’m doing sh*t with Tom Brady. That was all for that. You ain’t never seen me in them types of venues. I ain’t Drake. I ain’t out there smiling like that everywhere. I’m in the stu’, smokin’ and recording. All of a sudden, according to them, they got curved. So, I’m going to have to just settle with whatever they say.
“Every time I looked, it was nothing that made me want to go inside and see what was going on,” Lil Wayne continued later in the profile. “They stole that feeling. I don’t want to do it. It was perfect.”
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