Lil Wayne felt unwelcome at Thursday night’s Lakers game.
The rapper was in attendance at Crypto.com Arena for the Lakers’ 134-131 overtime win over the Wizards but left with a sour taste in his mouth.
“Wow! Got treated like s–t at the Laker game just now but I figured they’d do me that sooner or later either bc of what i said abt AD or simply bc they don’t fwm [f–k with me] which I been got that vibe from em as well so all good I get it. F–k em. It isn’t what it isn’t. I’m used to it,” Lil Wayne tweeted late Thursday night.
He elaborated on what happened Friday morning on his weekly spot on FS1’s “Undisputed.”
“They were just doing their job,” he began. “So, when I got there, we tried to enter at one entrance of the court. Security was like, ‘No you guys have to go to the other side.'”
He explained that his seats were courtside, in the vicinity of Jack Nicholson’s regular seats, and that the entrance he was redirected to was one behind where people were already sitting down, and that he’d have to tap those fans on the shoulder and ask them to get up and move their chairs to get by them.
He said that when he realized this would be the case, he returned to the original entrance that he’d been turned away from, assuming it would be “OK.”
“When I started walking to my side, the guy was like, ‘Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah [in a gesture of stopping them].’ So when I looked at him, he was like, ‘I told you guys to go to the other entrance.’ He looked right at me and it. I was like, ‘that’s a little much’ so I didn’t say anything, and was like, ‘Let’s just leave,'” Lil Wayne said.
The rapper said this wasn’t even a matchup he would’ve chosen to go to.
“With that said, I didn’t want to go to that game — I was asked to be at that game. It was to promote the wardrobe I had on [a partnership with the NBA brand] and they asked me to be there,” Lil Wayne said. “That’s why I … would’ve rathered a smoother entrance.”
He said he’s never had this type of issue with Lakers security before, and can’t explain why it happened now, and that he “kind of felt like a kid” with how he was being impeded.
Regarding the idea that he was being punished for how he spoke about Anthony Davis on television, Lil Wayne said, “I believed that. When I tweeted that, that was raw emotions, but that’s all facts behind my opinions. I did feel like there was something about the whole A.D. thing where it was like, ‘We don’t need this guy.'”
Earlier this season, Lil Wayne was highly critical of Anthony Davis’ availability in an appearance on “Undisputed.”
“If the Lakers want to be a championship team, in the future as well, you got to get rid of AD,” the rapper said.
Lil Wayne said that it was “plain and simple” and when he was asked if it was because Davis can’t say healthy, Lil Wayne responded, “You don’t want to criticize that because it’s health, it’s whatever it is, you don’t want to say he’s soft … Whatever it is, it’s AD. That’s his makeup and that’s who he is and he’s shown us that.”
