Lil Wayne Calls Coachella & Grammy Snubs “Humbling,” Fred Durst Responds

Lil Wayne was everywhere in the late 2000s and early 2010s. On the heels of his historic mixtape run, a radio-saturating run of guest verses, and the multiplatinum success of Tha Carter III, the self-appointed Best Rapper Alive was a fixture of the biggest music industry events. But his stature isn't what it used to be.

Wayne campaigned to be the halftime headliner when the Super Bowl came to his hometown of New Orleans in 2025, but Roc Nation and the NFL passed over him in favor of a riding-high Kendrick Lamar and SZA. All Wayne could manage was an appearance in a Super Bowl ad announcing his long-awaited album Tha Carter VI.

Around the time that booking was announced, Wayne said on a livestream that not landing the Super Bowl gig "hurt a lot... it broke me." In a Rolling Stone cover story published a few months after the big game, he asserted that the NFL "fucked up" and that he'd now vowed to never perform at a Super Bowl. You can't fire him, he quits! Wayne does apparently remain open to participating in the music industry's other remaining monocultural events. In a tweet Saturday, he wrote that his pride takes a hit every time a large gathering like Coachella or the Grammys excludes him:

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

Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst, whose own torrid run through the mainstream coincided with Wayne's teenage prodigy years, replied to Wayne's tweet, suggesting they put together an "experience gathering" and "acknowledgement event" for those who aren't invited into the halls of power anymore:

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 ? ? ❤️ ?

Not an "experience gathering" of the Juggalos, I presume? Events like this could have major All-American Halftime Show energy if executed with the wrong attitude, but more power to these guys if they're able to put something fun together. Our own Scott Lapatine suggests they could call it Loserville.

As it happens, both Wayne and Durst have new music out this week. Wayne guests on Lil Twist's new single "Addict," while Durst features on Tuesday's new Machine Gun Kelly single "fix ur face." "been limping with the bizkit for years, time to do it again," mgk writes on Instagram, along with receipts proving his long history with Durst.