Benny
02-08-2010, 02:46 AM
So yea just to carry over to here this blew chunks....I also found this on it.
Lil Wayne (Universal Records)
If Boba Fett made a record with Nickelback, the results would be a lot like the new rock album from Lil Wayne. Using Playing With Fire, the worst song from 2008's Tha Carter III, as a starting point, this Nu-metal-meets-AutoTune gumbo never treads beyond its initial concept -- "I'm a dope boy with a guitar" -- and winds up with just a little less substance than a Twilight message board. Jay-Z scored a Grammy for D.O.A. (Death of AutoTune), but Wayne's album makes a better case for the banishment of the voice modulator than a thousand recordings by Jamie Foxx, Cher and T-Pain combined. This is the worst misfire since Axl Rose took to the stage without Slash.
The seventh studio album from the 27-year-old rapper from New Orleans opens with American Star, and immediately hits a bum note. Featuring a screeching, computerized Wayne vocal, the track sounds like Dirty Diana by Michael Jackson. Lyrically, the song is Seinfeld -- about nothing.
While Tha Carter III, 2008's biggest, most lauded record, combined anger with skill and playfulness, Rebirth is almost pure rage. One Way Trip and Prom Queen sound like an angry teenager venting about science class and acne.
Guests roped into the repetitive, derivative record include J.U.S.T.I.C.E. and Eminem, who performed the album's best song, Drop the World, with Lil Wayne at the Grammys on Sunday night. Eminem, who produced the song, sounds crisp and hungry, upstaging Lil Wayne.
Outside of discs from Gorillaz and Andre 3000, the rock-rap hybrid has been difficult to master. Here, songs like The Price is Wrong and Ground Zero -- with its insane chorus, "Let's jump off a building, baby" -- are lifeless and locked in the worst parts of the '90s.
Lil Wayne is going to need to do something drastic to recover from his most recent record. He's lost in space and, what's worse, makes Chad Kroeger seem like a singer with soul.
Ben Kaplan
Lil Wayne and his auto-tune blows chunks (http://www.ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/Little+like+about+Wayne+latest/2530822/story.html)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgy0Pby6ZoE
Lil Wayne (Universal Records)
If Boba Fett made a record with Nickelback, the results would be a lot like the new rock album from Lil Wayne. Using Playing With Fire, the worst song from 2008's Tha Carter III, as a starting point, this Nu-metal-meets-AutoTune gumbo never treads beyond its initial concept -- "I'm a dope boy with a guitar" -- and winds up with just a little less substance than a Twilight message board. Jay-Z scored a Grammy for D.O.A. (Death of AutoTune), but Wayne's album makes a better case for the banishment of the voice modulator than a thousand recordings by Jamie Foxx, Cher and T-Pain combined. This is the worst misfire since Axl Rose took to the stage without Slash.
The seventh studio album from the 27-year-old rapper from New Orleans opens with American Star, and immediately hits a bum note. Featuring a screeching, computerized Wayne vocal, the track sounds like Dirty Diana by Michael Jackson. Lyrically, the song is Seinfeld -- about nothing.
While Tha Carter III, 2008's biggest, most lauded record, combined anger with skill and playfulness, Rebirth is almost pure rage. One Way Trip and Prom Queen sound like an angry teenager venting about science class and acne.
Guests roped into the repetitive, derivative record include J.U.S.T.I.C.E. and Eminem, who performed the album's best song, Drop the World, with Lil Wayne at the Grammys on Sunday night. Eminem, who produced the song, sounds crisp and hungry, upstaging Lil Wayne.
Outside of discs from Gorillaz and Andre 3000, the rock-rap hybrid has been difficult to master. Here, songs like The Price is Wrong and Ground Zero -- with its insane chorus, "Let's jump off a building, baby" -- are lifeless and locked in the worst parts of the '90s.
Lil Wayne is going to need to do something drastic to recover from his most recent record. He's lost in space and, what's worse, makes Chad Kroeger seem like a singer with soul.
Ben Kaplan
Lil Wayne and his auto-tune blows chunks (http://www.ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/Little+like+about+Wayne+latest/2530822/story.html)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgy0Pby6ZoE