![]() While his lyrics are still peppered with the usual wit and laugh-out-loud punch lines, crunching guitars bring out a tedious mopey side of the man you won’t find elsewhere, and many cuts go into downward spirals of weeping and wailing. ![]() Hearing Wayne bark “I’m so high that the ground is gone/I don’t even know what cloud I’m on” over a tribal rock beat could be special if this wasn’t some uninspired, studio musician’s idea of “tribal”. Like “Prom Queen,” the rap-rock album Rebirth is dragged down by drab backing tracks which are akin to the canned heavy metal the world of video games gave up years previously. After the widespread indifference to his debut rap-rock single “Prom Queen,” the late 2009 hip-hop mixtape No Ceilings was greeted with universal acclaim, so it seems Wayne’s sense of quality control is strong when it comes to rap, but very weak when it comes to rap-rock. What made the faithful flip was a scene where the previously unstoppable Weezy announced he was a rock star, picked up a guitar, raised a fist in the air, brought the pick down, and then proceeded to deliver one of the most lackluster guitar solos caught on video, and that’s including YouTube. When the 2009 documentary The Carter hit DVD, much was made of Lil Wayne’s reckless syrup sipping during the film, but longtime fans had already accepted their hero was a drug abuser because they had bothered to listen to his lyrics.
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