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Music Review: Lil Wayne's rock album promising
Neil Schneider / Staff Reporter
Issue date: 2/6/09 Section: The Verge
Last Tuesday, Lil Wayne released his first single "Prom Queen" from his first-ever rock album, titled "Rebirth."
Actually, the single leaked days earlier, which appears to be a developing trend in the music business.
This slight mishap couldn't have pleased the rapper, sometimes called Weezy, too much, but I doubt it will take away from the first week download numbers.
From what I've read and heard from a few news sources like Rolling Stone and Spin Magazine, the song has opened to mixed reviews.
In fact, "Mr. Carter" beat makers, Infamous and Drew Correa, didn't even believe he was serious about a rock album until Lil Wayne said he didn't want synthesizers on the debut single.
Instead, Wayne has brought in the typical rock set up of bass, guitars and drums.
The single "Prom Queen" certainly is a step in a different direction for Lil Wayne.
I mean, how often does a major rap star go and make a rock album, when they quite possibly are the most popular rapper in the world.
Also, consider that he is currently nominated for numerous Grammy's for last year's "Tha Carter III," a rap album, and some are already guessing he will be performing his new rock tune at the show.
Now, I've listened to the single about five times and it seems to be a step forward for Lil Wayne as an artist.
I don't know how well the die-hard rock or rap fans will receive it, but it certainly is something different.
At first glance, it appears as if Lil Wayne is taking a page out of Kanye West's playbook, but, instead of R & B, he choose rock music.
Once again, Weezy is using his Auto-Tune to help with his vocals, but this time he sings instead of rapping and there even sounds like a full band behind him.
The song itself seems to be about a girl that, no matter how hard Weezy tries, always wants to hang with the cooler guys.
In the end, Lil Wayne gets the last laugh after he moves on and the girl then realizes she has made a poor choice of not going with him.
"Prom Queen" is about three and a half minutes long and features softer/slower verses with big choruses where Weezy uses his trademark Auto-Tune to help him sing.
Towards the end of the song there is a guitar solo, which I would guess is Weezy displaying his best attempt at shredding.
Even though the single is not being praised as the next big thing yet, I would not count out the possibility that the album could be packing some better tracks.
Plus, currently anything musically that has Lil Wayne's name associated with it seems to be getting serious attention.
Actually, the single leaked days earlier, which appears to be a developing trend in the music business.
This slight mishap couldn't have pleased the rapper, sometimes called Weezy, too much, but I doubt it will take away from the first week download numbers.
From what I've read and heard from a few news sources like Rolling Stone and Spin Magazine, the song has opened to mixed reviews.
In fact, "Mr. Carter" beat makers, Infamous and Drew Correa, didn't even believe he was serious about a rock album until Lil Wayne said he didn't want synthesizers on the debut single.
Instead, Wayne has brought in the typical rock set up of bass, guitars and drums.
The single "Prom Queen" certainly is a step in a different direction for Lil Wayne.
I mean, how often does a major rap star go and make a rock album, when they quite possibly are the most popular rapper in the world.
Also, consider that he is currently nominated for numerous Grammy's for last year's "Tha Carter III," a rap album, and some are already guessing he will be performing his new rock tune at the show.
Now, I've listened to the single about five times and it seems to be a step forward for Lil Wayne as an artist.
I don't know how well the die-hard rock or rap fans will receive it, but it certainly is something different.
At first glance, it appears as if Lil Wayne is taking a page out of Kanye West's playbook, but, instead of R & B, he choose rock music.
Once again, Weezy is using his Auto-Tune to help with his vocals, but this time he sings instead of rapping and there even sounds like a full band behind him.
The song itself seems to be about a girl that, no matter how hard Weezy tries, always wants to hang with the cooler guys.
In the end, Lil Wayne gets the last laugh after he moves on and the girl then realizes she has made a poor choice of not going with him.
"Prom Queen" is about three and a half minutes long and features softer/slower verses with big choruses where Weezy uses his trademark Auto-Tune to help him sing.
Towards the end of the song there is a guitar solo, which I would guess is Weezy displaying his best attempt at shredding.
Even though the single is not being praised as the next big thing yet, I would not count out the possibility that the album could be packing some better tracks.
Plus, currently anything musically that has Lil Wayne's name associated with it seems to be getting serious attention.
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denis
posted 2/11/09 @ 9:22 PM CST
lil wayne is the vanilla ice of rock
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