Lil Wayne’s Longtime Engineer Appears to React to Kendrick Lamar Super Bowl Halftime Show: ‘Confused, Disappointed, Angry’
Lil Wayne’s longtime engineer Fabian Marasciullo believes he should be taking the stage at the 2025 Super Bowl Halftime Show.
On Sunday, Kendrick Lamar, 37, was announced as the headliner for the halftime performance at the Super Bowl, which takes place February 9, 2025 at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Several fans of Weezy, a New Orleans native, took to social media to share that they believe the 41-year-old rapper should have been given the prestigious opportunity to perform in his home city.
Among the disappointed includes Wayne’s engineer, Marasciullo, who had his professional breakthrough when he mixed the rapper’s “Go D.J.” off 2004’s Tha Carter, according to Sound On Sound.
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“Confused. Disappointed. Angry. But most of all, inspired,” Marasciullo, 45, wrote on his Instagram Story on Sunday afternoon. “Will never again be in a position or have the 🐐 in a position where we are at the mercy of someone else’s decision. We will make the decisions.”
The engineer also included Wayne’s “Right Above It” from 2010’s I Am Not a Human Being, which happens to feature Drake.
Wayne spoke about his desire to headline the Super Bowl Halftime Show last December, telling Bleacher Reports’ Taylor Rooks that he wanted the opportunity “badly.”
“Just as bad as I would want to see my name at the top of that list when I was at whatever age it was and I would bust into the office and get that Billboard magazine,” Wayne said at the time, saying that the performance would be a major milestone in line with the Grammys.
However, he did note why it would be important for fans in the audience to see an artist headlining in their own city.
“There’s so many people that’s not from the city there. So it’s a showcase. It’s something that tourists take back with them, and everybody not coming from an American city,” Wayne explained.
“People come from out the country, they gonna remember that. They’re gonna remember, ‘OK, I went to New Orleans for the game…I kind of remember the halftime show, I remember the food.’ It’s a showcase and I believe that I’m a part of the New Orleans showcase,” he noted.
In February, Wayne told YG and Stevie on their 4HUNNID podcast that he hadn’t received any phone calls about the opportunity but was “praying” for it.
“We keeping our fingers crossed. I’m working hard. I’mma make sure this next album and everything I do is killer. I wanna just make it hard for them not to holler at the boy,” he said at the time.
Aside from his legion of fans, Wayne was also able to count on support from Deion Sanders, who tweeted the NFL in February, “I fully expect @LilTunechi to be apart of the @nflsuperbowl 2025 in New Orleans. Thank u in advance. Much Love, CoachPrime.”
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