Lil Wayne Got Booed After 5 Hours Late At His Own Concert

2025-09-28T02:18:06Z

At 10:40 on Thursday night — 20 minutes before the originally scheduled end time for Lil Wayne’s concert at PNC Music Pavilion in Charlotte — a woman in the seat directly behind me started cursing the type of blue streak typically reserved for, well, a Lil Wayne song.

And she was hardly the only fan who was growing more and more irritated by the hip-hop star’s unexplained tardiness: Ten minutes later, hundreds if not thousands of his fans started booing, boisterously.

It was all completely warranted.

Just imagine having heeded the warning about traffic and arrived at, say, 5:45 p.m., then having headed straight in. You got a beer, got a snack, were in your seat by 5:55; then over the next FIVE HOURS, you’re treated to 41 minutes of T Lew, 29 minutes of Tyga, and 3 hours and 50 minutes of twiddling your thumbs.

The boos made things interesting — and loud — but otherwise, it was getting quieter after 10:30. Couples and friends were running out of things to talk about, running out of social-media feeds to look at on their phones.

I saw yawning. I saw people just kind of staring off into space.

Meanwhile, there hadn’t been a peep about what was causing the delay. But there was some developing speculation that the venue might unilaterally cancel the show if it got to 11 p.m. and Lil Wayne still hadn’t emerged. No telling what kind of chaos might ensue, in that scenario.

As it turned out, that scenario was avoided. At 10:57, the rapper passed through the gates and under the arch emblazoned with the words “THA CARTER,” white electric guitar slung over his shoulder, massive blunt wedged between the fore and middle fingers of his left hand. And as if it was an otherwise-totally normal night under otherwise-totally normal circumstances, he embarked on a mostly masterful 90-minute-long set showcasing both his deep catalog and his stable of “Young Mula” artists, no apology apparently necessary.

It was a show that Lil Wayne could have been proud of, and that I’d have been grateful to have seen ...

... if he hadn’t been so obnoxiously discourteous.

Even if you walked away from the show after it ended at 12:27 a.m. feeling like it was the best concert you’ve ever attended in your entire life, you couldn’t have possibly preferred that he go on so late, on a school night.

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Edited 1 hour ago by RAMROD