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Rating: 1 / 5 Reviewer: Jon Roe |
It’s common practice in music these days to assuage normal vocals with auto-tuned ones and assume it’s some sort of musical innovation. Lil’ Wayne must believe that’s the case, as he brings along his auto-tune rapping for his transition from R&B beats to tired rock guitar riffs on Rebirth.
The lyrics are mostly juvenile, which is to be expected to a certain extent with main stream music these days – what does it mean to wake up feeling like P-Diddy? Maybe Ke$ha is more philosophical than we think. You likely won’t be paying attention to them, anyways, as the dated guitar and drum riffs tend to distract, and rarely ever mesh in a meaningful way with the ridiculous things Lil’ Wayne is rapping about. In the lead track, ‘American Star,’ he goes from rapping about girls taking off their shirts, to yelling about being born and raised in the U.S.A. where the president is “B-L-A-C-K” over a combo bass/guitar riff that sounds like a Rage Against the Machine reject. Alright.
Wayne, who on earlier releases rapped casually over laidback club beats, picks up the pace on a lot of tracks here to match the chugging guitar riffs, but with limited success. ‘Drop the World’ is the one redeemable track on the album, mostly because of Eminem blows any verses that Lil’ Wayne lays down on the rest of the album out of the water.
It’s really too bad for Lil’ Wayne that this is his last album before he goes behind bars for gun charges. Perhaps a year in prison will help him wrest his artistic ship away from the troubled rock ‘n’ roll waters that plague this awful outing.
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