Lil Wayne’s Producers Speak On Rapper’s Rock Album

 •  XXL Magazine  •  by XXL Staff  •  20 Comments

In a recent interview with Billboard, the producers behind Lil Wayne’s first single, “Prom Queen,” revealed some details on the surprise, upcoming rock album

The Miami-based production team, who consists of Infamous and Drew Correa, shared some insight on the direction of Weezy’s new project, Rebirth. “There were rumors Wayne was working on a rock album, but I assumed it was just 808 drums with guitars on it,” Infamous told Billboard. “But, that night when we worked on the track, he [Wayne] said he wanted lots of drums, bass and guitars. Drew started to add organs, and he [Wayne] said no. That’s when I realized it was actually going to be a real rock album.”

The beat making duo – who also produced “Mr. Carter,” the Weezy/Jay-Z collabo off Tha Carter III – have three tracks placed on Rebirth. And it’s no surprise that they fully support Weezy in his journey into uncharted territory. “You gotta give him credit – he’s done everything he can with hip-hop and has proven himself,” Infamous said. “Now he’s about to prove himself as a rocker and we’re excited to be a part of it.”

As XXLmag.com previously reported, Rebirth is slated for an April 7th release. – Elan Mancini

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  • I AM BARAK OBAMA

    LIL WAYNE NEEDS TO KILL HISSELF! THIS IS WHY HIP HOP IS DEAD,CAUSE BLACK PEOPLE WANT TO BE ROCK STARS AND SHIT,AND I CANT BE MAD FOR WHITE BOYS WANTING TO BE RAPPERS!

    • dusty boy

      Say hata whats good? Peep this, Hip Hop aint dead pussy. It lives in SOUTH TEXAS!!! And what do a persons race got to do with what kind of music he/she make. Cause if crackers was only suppose to rock out and niggas was only suppose to rap then Baraks nigga ass need to leave the white house cause thats been a plase for only crackers for years. Grow up you lame ass prick. Let that nigga weezy rock out.

      Fuck you very much!!!!

    • TheRefriedMexican

      ACTUALLY ROCK WAS INVENTED BY BLACK ARTIST (CHUCK BERRY, LITTLE RICHARD, ETC) ROCK IS A BLACK ARTFORM POPULARIZED OBVIOUSLY BY WHITE ARTIST (THE STONES, ELVIS, BEATLES, ETC) SO I.A.B.O YOUR STATEMENT MAKES NO SENSE
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  • dusty boy

    What it do?

    http://www.myspace.com/dustyboyclick

    Maan Hol’ Up!!!

  • http://xxlmag.com $hawty Reg

    AND LET THE HATING BEGIN!! My bad, TRUTH TELLING is what u niggaz that don’t like Wayne call it, not hate….

    Fuck outta here!!! The same niggaz thats claiming “Hip Hop Is Dead” is the same niggaz bootlegging Nas, Common, Mos Def, Jay-Z and whoever else u consider lyricists’ albums!! Now explain yo self…

    504 in tha buildin, ya heard

  • e20

    Good I luv it! Go fukk up Rock and Roll with that autotune B.S and leave Hip Hop alone! I hope Lil Wayne makes a billion bucks thru Rock&Roll so all of the dudes “hustling” hip hop will go and exploit, commercialize and over all fukk up Rock & Roll like they’ve been doing to hip hop.

    Then maybe real hip hop like Bun B, Ice Cube, Scarface, Nas, Clipse, Ghostface, and Juvenile will get the shine they deserve and continue to make the music they want to make without having to worry about these B.S ringtone rappers flooding the airwaves.

  • FLOSS

    Co-sign both my nigga TheRefriedMexican and $hawty Reg real talk glad to see an intelligent pair of statements. I salute you dudes.

    Now do your job haters…………

  • dave

    i think wayne’s new rock song is brutal. but now a days “rock” groups are just emo faggets. sadly i think lil wayne’s new album will make him money cuz all the “rockers” will want to buy it to get the emo shit outta there

    • http://xxlmag.com $hawty Reg

      I see ya FLOSS!!

      real recognize real my dude

  • Gumer

    cosign e20….hopefully lil wayne wont make another rap record ever again

  • millertime

    “You gotta give him credit – he’s done everything he can with hip-hop and has proven himself,”

    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    has he really???

    • $ykotic

      HAHA!!!

  • Hanch

    Hey IABO Why dont yall seem to remember that Barack is Half White? Or let me guess that doesnt matter right? So your President is Black by Jezzy is Wrong it should be my president is Mixed or My President is Half White Half Black. No to Weezy i personally like Hip Hop and Rock Together it can make some instering music who cares what your race is when it comes to music! Good Music Is Good Music Period!!! As long as its original and sounds good and makes sense then it is good Music.

    Peace

  • Hanch

    Intersting and NOW instead of NO. Just so you Haters dont try this Spell Check Shit

    • cold

      you should try it a s s h o l e !

      (intersting ?)

  • allhiphop>xxlmag

    lil wayne is a great rapper, no one can doubt this
    this rock album should be great too
    every great artist changes up

  • Big Sam

    Lil Wayne is showing why he’s to top dude in the music game right now. You can’t put him in a box. Can’t wait for the album.

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    PEACE,FROM THE BAY!

    WAYNE=CAN’T LOSE.STAY ROCKIN.

    COME VIBE(ANYTIME)
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    PEACE TO YOU & YOURS

  • TEZZY

    I think its cool he trying something different BUT i work at a music store where we listen to punk rock and that emo shit which is what this would be classified as and NO this shit aint hitting i mean with kanye west when his shit came out i knew it woild hit on cause its on some alternative shit and his shit could easily blend in with that type of crowd everybody say kanye got a r&b album but really its an alternative album only the dudes that listen to other types of music gonna know what im talking about but if you just listen to rap you gonna be like wtf is he talking about lol lil wayne just need to do some more research on the shit and he’ll be good

  • TEZZY

    Wait that shit just said his production team which means its just gonna be some beatmakers making that rock shit naw he really need to scrape this one i’ve noticed that this emo crowd pays alot of attention to the musical aspect of it and then can tell when its some studio beatmaking shit