What do you think of Lil Wayne's latest? Does he rock?īelow, the video for a song off of "Rebirth," "On Fire."Ĭopyright ©2022 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Lil Wayne is not just marching to a different drummer-he's got a whole new band. It's one of the biggest stylistic makeovers in recent memory by a best-selling artist. He's largely transformed his vocal approach and overhauled his beats. While other performers have merely tweaked what they already do for their rock-rap hybrids, Lil Wayne has taken a more radical step. And Lil Wayne, Eminem, and Drake were joined by Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker for their group performance. Genre-hopping has become a popular sport among musicians at last night's Grammys, R&B singer Beyonce slipped in a musical nod to rocker Alanis Morissette in her performance. On "Drop the World," fellow rap superstar Eminem stops by for a guest vocal. Throughout this past year, 2 Chainz and Lil Wayne have been. On other tracks, he relapses into more hip-hoppy formats "On Fire" is laced with clashing guitars (and Lil Wayne brandishes his axe in the video), but the song still has a kind of danceable beat. 2 Chainz and Lil Wayne appear to be undertaking the final stages of 'ColleGrove 2,' connecting in the club for a tracklist discussion. "Never forget the day/ she laughed and walked away," he sings, in a rhyme that wouldn't win the weakest of rap battles.
Check out the album teaser below.On songs like "Prom Queen," on which Lil Wayne mostly sings, he seems to be working awful hard to make the rap-rock mix work, and he leaves behind his much-admired wordplay skills to focus on rocking out. “The one day where he walked off stage, he had said, ‘I just felt like they didn’t like me,’ so he walked off stage,” drummer Travis Barker explained in an interview last year.įuneral drops on Jan. He changed his mind hours later.Įven with all the tour trouble, Blink-182 had nothing but good things to say about Weezy. In 2019, the 37-year-old rapper embarked on a joint summer tour with Blink-182, but the jaunt was marred by difficulty as Wayne walked off stage during one show and threatened to quit. The New Orleans native’s last studio LP, Tha Carter V, dropped in 2018 after years of delays. Self-discovery, rebirth – call it whatever you want to call it but it feels awesome, I swear to God.” Now, it’s let me see what I come up with. it was just me going to the studio and saying, let me kill ten more songs and then I’m going to go home or do whatever I was doing. “…I can’t wait to get in the studio now every night, just to see what I can come up with.
Cut a beat on, I’m going to go and you let me know when to stop,” Wayne said. I used to go to that muf***a and do 12 songs a night. Going to the studio now, for me, is awesome. “I love the difficulty of trying to fit in with what’s going on today, making sure I sound likable to the ears today and having to remind myself that it’s not about what it was back then.
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