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Lil Wayne revealed that while he loves Donald Trump‘s personality, he doesn’t keep up with the news too much.
In a sprawling Rolling Stone cover story, the superstar rapper discussed the smiley photo he posted with Trump in 2020 during a meeting the pair had about criminal justice reform, which earned the rapper some blowback online. In the article, Wayne jokes that the president was “an asshole” who was cracking jokes and making Wayne laugh during the meeting.
“Ain’t take nothing serious,” Wayne said. “Literally in there saying shit like, ‘What do we have to do again? Shit, I forgot.’”
Wayne described the moment the picture was taken as well.
“[Trump] says, ‘These motherfuckers asking me for fucking pictures all fucking day, man. Can we please?’ ” Wayne said. “I said, ‘It’s the president. OK.’ [Trump] was like, ‘Thank you. Bitches [been] bothering me all day.’”
Despite their rapport, Wayne said he wouldn’t have endorsed the president during the last election cycle had he been asked.
“I would’ve told him, ‘You probably don’t want that,’ because I don’t know what’s going on,” he said. “I can tell you who won the last game, but I can’t really … you know what I mean?”
Elsewhere in the article, Wayne said that he didn’t watch Kendrick Lamar‘s Super Bowl halftime show earlier this year. Given that the game was taking place in Wayne’s native New Orleans and the rapper had expressed interest in headlining the event in the past, the decision to hire Lamar came as a surprise to many, including Wayne himself. During the show, Wayne said he was playing pool and taking a smoke break.
“Every time I looked, it was nothing that made me want to go inside and see what was going on,” he said.
Wayne said that despite his disappointment, he called Lamar before the Super Bowl to squash any potential drama and offer words of encouragement.
Even more surprising? Wayne said he had no idea about his protégé Drake‘s huge beef with Lamar, which created one awkward moment when Wayne was singing along with Lamar’s hit song “Not Like Us” onstage, not realizing it was a very pointed Drake diss track.
“I ain’t want my dude to be mad at me,” Wayne said. “I didn’t even know it was Kendrick!”
Wayne also said he didn’t even realize that there was beef between the two.
“If it don’t happen on [ESPN] or FS1, I wouldn’t know that happened,” he said.
Wayne is scheduled to release his 14th solo studio album, “Tha Carter VI,” in June.
