To tell you the truth I don’t mind a Rap/Rock album, since it’s been done before (Jay-Z/Linkin Park and Aerosmith Run DMC) and it has been proven to be successful, Prom Queen was okay and but a Rock/Rap mashup record like Spit is definitely fire.
“The best way to describe the Rebirth record is that it’s a Lil Wayne record,” Cool’s partner Dre said. “It’s where Lil Wayne is right now in his life and career — he’s expressing himself musically. ‘Prom Queen’ came out and that’s a rock record and so everybody is like, ‘He’s putting out a rock album and he’s on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.’ Yeah, there’s some rock records on there, but there’s also some records where he’s rapping. It’s a Lil Wayne album. It’s what you expect from Lil Wayne, where he’s at creatively.
“It’s almost like where Outkast was when they made Aquemini,” he continued. “It’s still a rap album, but was it really a rap album compared to all the other rap albums at that time? André Benjamin was evolving artistically to where he’s at now — Wayne is doing the same thing, and he’s not afraid to show you his growth. It’s one thing we respect about him, and we feel it’s something that everybody else should respect about him … hes shows no fear. To put himself out there, you’re watching someone as they progress in their career.
“He paid his dues, he put out a million mixtapes and he put out classic albums … Rebirth is going to be another classic album,” he added.
Cool & Dre were inspired to take a new musical direction with Wayne after seeing his rock rendition of “Got Money” on “Saturday Night Live.”
“His intensity was like [being at] a rock concert,” Cool said of the performance. “He had a band behind him. It inspired me and Dre to do a lot of intensity-driven records.”
“Anthemic records,” Dre echoed. “We wanted to create music for him that could stand beside his performance, which is tough. The way he was performing, I can only compare him to Freddie Mercury or Jim Morrison, guys that put it all out onstage. We felt like, ‘Yo, we feel we could provide you with music that could stand alongside what you do as a performer onstage.’ He was like, ‘Yo, get me some stuff.’ ”
And the two friends have been feeding Weezy ever since. That’s Dre singing on “Hot Revolver,” a record that could possibly have been Rebirth’s first single if it had not been leaked — although without any promotion, the song charted on iTunes and the Billboard Hot 100. Cool & Dre did not know exactly what other songs of theirs Weezy would be using, but they had a good idea — however, Cash Money wants to keep the titles of the newly recorded material under wraps.
Source MTV News
4-28-2009
About time someone spoke up about this. Look at “The Love Below” and “Speakerbox” both were not at all traditional rap joints and they did not get half the hate that Wane is gettn. He is showing another side and is being creative. How come all these other artist can show some creativity and not get flack for it but Weezy steps outside of your comfort zone and people throw a BF (bitch fit) ! yall so called hip hop fans need to see out side the box and just listen to the music. Its Rap to the next level get wit it or get gone!
4-28-2009
first of all they made great points but one and not to knock Lil Wayne but he definitely has not put out a classic album yet there is not one album from Lil Wayne you can hear all the way through till this day but that’s what growth is for when Lil Wayne came out he was wack but now that his lyrical game is gotten way better he’s using his creativeness to his advantage i wish him luck i think anytime a rapper thinks outside the box we should back him up only when you know the artist is good tho
4-28-2009
are you serious??..tha carter 1?…carter 2??…patria you must not know lyrics when you hear em..your probably a soulja boy groupie or something ha
4-28-2009
Wayne iz tha best and Yes he has gotten better over tha years he has ben doing this. I luv ta c sum new stuff be cuz the old rap iz gettin old every onez talkin bout sex, money, drugs, traps, and cloths Lil wyane different
4-29-2009
i agree with east atl zone 6 it isent like waynes the only one to do this it has happen in the past and it just happens that people like to hate more then before and thats is whats happening to wayne