New Hampshire concertgoers are the latest stop on Lil Wayne’s tour of frustrated fanbases. The rapper, 43, finally took the stage at the BankNH Pavilion in Gilford on Friday night around 11 p.m., according to TMZ, nearly two hours after his scheduled 9 p.m. start time. Concertgoers claimed the wait was rewarded with only about an hour of music before he was gone.
The kicker came after the show, when Wayne posted a message to social media suggesting the night had been a triumph. “New Hampshire! It’s your man-ster. I told you man, that [expletive] was awesome. You can see I don’t even have no voice. You all took my voice. You all took everything, man,” he said, before telling fans he was off to Iowa for his next stop.
The victory lap did not land. The two-hour delay came just four days after Wayne failed to appear at all for his tour opener in Maine, where a staffer told a waiting crowd minutes before showtime that the headliner was not coming. He later apologized for that one, rescheduled it for July 28, and promised fans the show they deserve. New Hampshire was his very next chance to prove it.
Fans Pile On Lil Wayne After His Second Concert Blunder in Four Days
The reaction online was withering. “Insanely disrespectful when performers do this. So gross and why I have so much more appreciation for Broadway actors who are so much more professional,” one Reddit user wrote. Another argued the pattern is the point: “2 hours is just disrespectful, period. like, do you not value the people who literally pay your bills?“
Longtime fans backed that up with receipts. “He’s been doing this for years,” one claimed, recalling a show a decade ago where Wayne appeared hours after the openers finished and “mad people had left.” Others went blunter still, with one user warning, “Wayne doesn’t show up for his shows,” before adding, “Lil Wayne is a lil boy.“
The stumbles extend a well-documented pattern that includes a last-minute Canada cancellation in 2025, a California festival dropout in 2024, and a Los Angeles walk-off in 2023.
Now all eyes turn to two dates. Wayne is scheduled for Casey’s Center in Iowa on July 16, and then comes the July 28 makeup show in Maine, where an already burned crowd will be watching the clock. After this weekend, so will everyone else.
