The Carter III was good, so kudos to Weezy for getting wise and ditching this rap thing for his next release. Huh? Well it’s all true: Lil Wayne is making a “rock record” instead of a rap record, and it’s out this April. Despite earlier statements suggesting this would be titled Tha Carter III: Rebirth while featuring none of the songs from the original Tha Carter III (obvs) (ugh), this won’t have anything to do with Tha Carter III. It’ll just be a rock record called Rebirth. With audible autotune! All the rock records have audible autotune. A taste:
If that gets pulled, you can hear it starting tomorrow (1/27) at MySpace. Rebirth is due out 4/7.
[Photo by Jeff Genter for Getty]
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Bad Idea Jeans.
man weezy dissapoints me prom queen iz aaaaiiiight but man i live 4 that hustla musik well we”ll see
I’m pretty sure this goes against all reasons for my existence.
I can’t even wrap my brain around this; it hurts to try.
Fred Durst called. He wants his song back.
What a train wreck! I can’t stop listening.
Oh. Hey 1999. I haven’t heard your noise for like 10 years. Welcome back.
this is almost bad enough to become good again.
Well that’s bad.
But I tell ya, this guy can sure rap his way out of a bundle!
A bundle!
Help me out people.
This is without doubt the best song I’ve ever heard.
rock song FAIL
This is your brain on drugs
Is this what Lil Wayne considers rock music? Sounds like an inexperienced Hype Machine producer’s mashup experiment, which is what I initially thought when hearing it.
well that was the worst thing i’ve done today
can I have my 3 minutes back?….please?
i used to have respect for lil wayne but now i think he just another lunch box after what he said in GQ about books and reading….IDIOT
The day has come when all those who have been swinging from Lil’ Wayne’s balls for the last year realized how horrible this guy is. It is a glorious day!
Nothing happened when I pressed play and I went to MySpace and its not on there either.
SORRY, SORRY.
My bad.
I thought TODAY was the 27th.
Oddly refreshing to know that some people are not a jack of all trades. Just a master of one.
Too much cough syrup.
Oh Lil Wayne. You smelly little fox.
This makes me laugh a little bit. Not because he’s going to fail because I doubt that’s the case at all. I think he realized somewhere how ridiculously fun being a celebrity and rapper of the year can be and decided to have fun with this project and do it strictly for himself. He probably feels if he’s gonna go out on a limb by switching it up this much, now would be a good time since he feels untouchable.
Remember Lou Reed’s “Berlin”? Not comparing great with trash, but more or less the circumstance of Lou releasing something so against the grain of an obvious path towards the top after “Transformer”.
But this is also reminiscent of Derk Diggler cutting his album in Boogie Nights.
I can’t believe this is actually happening.
ii LOVE WEEZY AS A RAPPER..HE DOESNT HAV 2 DO THiiS 2 HiMESELF…ii RLLYY HOPE THiiS iS JUST A XPERiiMENT
The next Prince?
I personally think he does a better piano ballad.
evidence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDC1DmtBs90&feature=channel_page
Audible autowha?
This song is garbage,
but for a rapper, this song is KANG!
lil wayne plays rock now? what’s next Metallica making albums with snoop? he’s making real rock look bad, and he sounds like robot when he sings
Welcome to Autotune.
i believe he coped…i ment it was influenced his intro guitar riff from circa survive- Close Your Eyes To See…hey it does sound similar
I’M DIGGIN HIS SONG HOT REVOLVER IT’S A PRETTY GOOD SONG FOR A RAPPER WHO IS DOING HIS FIRST ROCK ALBUM! AND JUST TO LET YA’LL KNOW THAT IS HIM PLAYING THE GUITAR~{WHICH HE OBVIOUSLY DOES BETTER THAN HE DOES SINGING} I AM ONE OF THE BIGGEST WEEZY FANS U WILL EVER MEET AND I WANT HIM TO KEEP RAPPING BUT I THINK HE DID THIS ROCK ALBUM FOR HIS SELF FOR A NEW SIDE TO HIS CREATIVITY (U GOTTA GIVE HIM PROPS ON THE CREATIVITY END OF THIS) EVERY AND ANYONE WHO DOWNS THE MAN FOR THIS PROJECT IS JUST A HATER,..DONT GET IT TWISTED IM NOT SAYING THIS IS THE BEST ROCK ALBUM OF ALL TIME OR EVEN A GOOD ROCK ALBUM BUT I AM SAYIN I GIVE HIM PROPS FOR DOING THIS ALBUM TO PLEASE HIS SELF AND I GIVE HIM PROPS FOR STRAYING FROM THE NORM AND NOT WORRYING WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK OF HIM~ LIFE IS SHORT SO BE HAPPY NCONTENT BY DOING WHAT PLEASES U NOT WHAT PLEASES ANYONE ELSE!
Well how could we ever argue with that?
Why are you shouting?
So Kanye West reads stereogum? Lolz.
i refuse to listen to this. hes a average at best rapper and lord knows what kind of abomination his so called “rock music” is going to be. i do believe im doing myself a solid by not putting any more of his trash in my ears.
Lil Waynes Rebirth > Kanyes 808s and Heartbreak
I have always been a wayne fan ive followed his music since the early years i new every thing there was to know about Dawyne Carter .. I do give him his props and all for expessing his creativity and he is pretty talented with the guitar.. but i have to say this Prom queen song is a flop i feel hes made an F on this particully track. Its A mess i agree with those of you saying maybe hes doing this for him enjoying him self was ready to change and have fun doing it.. but this song… not good at all.
That was wrong…… I tell you that was wrong…… no really that was wrong!!!!
you guys are all fucking idiots. hes not out there trying to make a hard core rock album or some shit. he is changing this he is doing something different. fuck listening to the same damn rap all the time gets boring. and you guys wont be sayin o this shit sucks lil wayne is such a failure when every other rapper tries to do the same shit. hes great. and i love the song
Really? You used a lot of words to try and defend a shit idea and a shit sounding song.
Are you kidding? If biggie was alive today he’d be completely offended by your statement. Sure, today’s radio “rappers” may all turn to rock eventually but a real RAPPER would never sell himself out to such rediculous levels. They rap to rap, not to make money and make people happy.
This just proves Lil’ Wayne was into rap for the money not for rap.
the full prom queen music video is now out:
http://www.newlilwayne.com/2009/03/lil-wayne-prom-queen-full-music-video-rebirth/
Lil Wayne has turned out just like Kanye. He used to be great now he uses autotone and sucks
i dont care what he does with him self i am all down and i go for any thing he’ll do. as long as if i could see him on tv and hear his fine as voice do what you want baby. you so fine…………=]
Lil wayne is a big sellout and there is no question about it.. if you listen to his older shit VS. this new shit… how can people not sream sellout…. he went from an amazing rapper, to a great pop artist.. to sell out… first lollipop…. and now prom queen..
he always says weezy baby best rapper alive.. well i think he has shown the world how much rap means to him like he sold right out.. wouldnt have been so bad if he did what Jay Z did and went with some1 like linkin park and still did his rap thing… but he cut out the middle man and became rock… i know i will never look at this “rapper” the same again…
excuse me haters but lil wayne can do wat he wants 2 do if u dont like his songs dont listen 2 him he wont give a shit anyways he has the best lyrics out dere! 4 people like me who listen to rap and rock prom queen is really good! lil wayne is not a sell out and will never be a sell out he is doin somethin dat he likes not somethin a record company is tellin him to do. dats wat i call a sell out rappers and singers who do things like listen 2 dere record company n not do somethin dey like and love havent u ever heard lil wayne used to listen to nirvana, dey inspired him so wat. stop hatin already!!!!!!!
I don’t think the guy is a sell out. I think he is just doing his own thing instead of following the same shit everyone else wants him to do. To be honest I hate the track, But I like the idea. I respect the man more for going out on his own and laying this track down, instead of just laying down a track over some linkin park bullshit like jay z. If yall think he is going to switch to rock completly, yall is crazy. Have yall heard the song Karaoke? Thats all I gotta say.
The only thing that hurt my head today more than trying to listen to that song was trying to read that comment.