Lil Wayne’s Leaked Rebirth Delivers On Promise Of Rock
Over the past year, the once ubiquitous white Styrofoam cup that never seemed to leave Lil Wayne’s hand has mostly been replaced (in public anyway) with an electric guitar. And if there was any confusion remaining about whether the MC’s long-delayed new album, Rebirth, would really take him to the rock side, the full-album leak of the disc on Wednesday put those questions to rest.
Just hours after news emerged that around 500 Amazon.com customers who had pre-ordered the album had received it this week — despite the recent push back of the official street date to February 1 — the full 12-track effort began popping up on the Internet. While Wayne’s label would not comment on the Amazon mix-up and did not return requests for confirmation that the dozen leaked songs are in fact the final track listing for the disc, the mastered-sounding tracks appear to be the final product.
Liberally splashed with squealing, multitracked guitars; mostly live-sounding, thunderous rock drums and tempos that range from hard rock to ska to new wave and punk, the album mixes Wayne’s signature studio-tweaked spaceman rhymes and twisty flow with the raw, live attack of the band he took on the road this summer on his Young Money outing.
Fans are already familiar with “Drop the World,” the scowling, explosive collabo with Eminem that leaked earlier this week, as well as one of the first singles from the disc, the pseudo-metal grinder “Prom Queen,” which dropped in January and is one of three songs to feature singer Shanell.
The “Young Money Princess” helps kick off the album on “American Star,” a slow-rolling Chicago blues bubbler on which Wayne describes himself as “a dope boy with a guitar,” and sings in a strained voice, “I was born and raised in the U.S.A., where my president is b-l-a-c-k.”
Two other leaked songs followers will know also made the cut, the trippy funk tune “Da Da Da” and “On Fire,” which rides on top of a “Flashdance”-style 1980s keyboard riff and rat-a-tat machine-gun drums.
But it’s the songs you haven’t heard yet that might surprise even the most loyal Wayne-iacs. “Get a Life” is reminiscent of a mid-1980s new wave song, with a bright, choppy guitar riff and Wayne teasing, “F— you, get a life” to people who won’t leave him alone, while “Ground Zero” switches things up with a dark grunge vibe. “I started on the block and that’s something to build on/ But how can I pray when I got nothin’ to kneel on?” Wayne breathlessly spits in a rapid-fire delivery over echoing, Jane’s Addiction-like tribal drums and the ominous drone of electric guitars,” adding “Let’s jump out a window/ Let’s jump off a building, baby,” in a near-whisper during the bridge.
He hooks up with another protégé, guitarist Kevin Rudolf, on the molasses-thick pop/nu-metal landslide “One Way Trip,” where he finds even more ways to describe how you will never be him over booming drums from Blink-182′s Travis Barker. “Drown in my flow, motherf—er/ Bring your swimming trunks,” he snarls, adding, “Have a ball until I fall, though/ And if I die today I bet the world end tomorrow … So check your watch, I’m strong as scotch/ Papa was a rolling stone, I was born to rock.”
The album also features the dark, live-fast-die-young rock ballad “Paradice,” the blitzing Bad Brains-esque punk ranter “The Price is Wrong,” one of the hardest, fastest songs Wayne has released so far and another Shanell tune, the soaring rap metal ballad “Runnin’,” on which Wayne proves again that nothing can restrain him, especially not the rules of the English language. “This is my testification/ I’ma rain on they heads like precipitation,” he growls, “And in hell do you need justification/ But for me it was just a vacation.”
To be sure, Wayne further cements his reputation as one of our most gifted rappers on the album, floating his signature flow on a rainbow galaxy of unexpected musical looks — none of them more out-there than a hook-up with another Young Money star-in-the-making, Nicki Minaj, who trades verses with him on the hyper, No Doubt-like pop ska raver “Knockout.” On that tune, Wayne mostly abandons rhyming for Auto-Tuned singing, yelping out lines like, “Cuz once you go black/ you never go back … and once you go white/ Everyone else is wack.”
Wayne’s label has not yet announced what it plans to do in response to the accidental shipment of the album. But MTV News’ #5 Man of the Year, who is slated to be sentenced on February 9 on gun charges, is continuing on with business as usual, launching a tour Thursday (December 17) with his Young Money crew for a string of dates that will keep them on the road through January.
Via MTV, and people keep asking me “Do I know Rebirth or We Are Young Money leaked?” and “Why haven’t you posted up the albums on the front page?” etc. The answer is simple – I’m not posting up anymore leaks from the album. If you downloaded Rebirth, that’s cool – just don’t forget to buy it from your stores on February 1st.
first!!!
jus so u kno he says “ima ‘wayne’ in the head like precipitation” in that Runnin song and the otha line is “once u got black u never go back and once u go wayne everybody else whack” in tha Knockout song man cmon how u get white instead of wayne in that verse lol get tha milk dud outcha ear lol
second!!
listened to the album, it is sick, now we want tha carter 4
this album is sick but he has to re-make it new songs and that
but he should use a few songs from that in the new version too
one way trip, knockout, drop the world these are the best from that
and i’m so over you is good too
IM SO LOYAL I DIDNT EVEN LISTEN TO ANY SONGS THAT LEAK OFF REBIRTH NOW THATS WHAT YOU CALL A LOYAL FAN. THE PPL THAT ALREADY DOWNLOAD IT THEY AINT GOING TO BUY IT AND WE KNOW THAT. SO IF YOU IS A LOYAL WEEZY FAN WAit UNTIL February 1st TO BUY IT . LETS MAKE HIM GO GOLD FIRST WEEK HE DOING THIS FOR US NOT HIM BECAUSE HE ALREADY GOT WHAT HE NEEDED AND THATS HIS FANS SO SUPPORT HIM ON WHATEVER HE TRYING TO BECOME SO HE CAN BUILD UPON HIS LEGACY AND WE CAN RIDE WITH HIM
TurTh’s righttttt SUPPPPPPPPPOOOOOORRRRTT WEEEZYYYYYY!!!!!!
Bring the date back to 21st i wanna buy this shit on CD
i’ve been downloading every leak, just got the rest, and am still buying it on feb 1st whos loyal now mothafucka
dude, i listened to them, didn’t download them. its a sick album . thats all there is to it. i’m still buying that shit on feb 1st so don’t call yourself loyal without checking the facts
@thacarter4
dude you have to understand when and album is leak that don’t mean go find the album when its leak and listen to it right away that take all the fun away from a album .in today’s world its no more surprises in albums because they get leak and the leak take all the quality away to be judge by the fans to quickly
Rebirth was FUCKING SHIT!!! OMG WHAT A EMBARRASSMENT!
@jamil I downloaded the whole album, and I also downloaded the whole young money album!!! ( Both of which are completely sick btw) and trust me I will still buy both cd’s!! Just like when the carter 3 came out I bought 2 copies of it, and one I still haven’t opened I’m keeping that hoe forever!!!! Lol yeah dude who’s loyal now….. FREE WEEZY!!!!
awesome man
the album’s great, and whoever is saying it’s shit is probably just hopping on that bandwagon to sound cool. weezy f! seriously, listen to paradice or something.. “call me crazy, i’ve been called worse/it’s like i have it all, but what’s it all worth?”
i wont lie! i donwloaded the leak for rebirth and young money albums, and they are both genius! but im a loyal fan i actually WILL buy them when the officialy release, i already have them pre-ordered online anyway, and i even traveled from scotland(uk) down to london just to see him live, so im pretty sure i’ll be buying the physical copies loL! sick album!
Just to let people know I did download it, but I am
still going to purchase it In stores as everyone else should that Downloaded it, we want wayne to rise to the top in the charts, let’s have
another platnium album!
I was always gonna download it first, but I will be first in line for when the store opens to buy rebirth
can some 1 give me the link to download it and off coarse ill buy the album when it drops
Now that rebirth is leaked…now i what carta 4
Seriously? It’s “Once you go Wayne, everyone else is whack”. Whoever wrote that article is a friggin’ idddddiot.
Anyway, yeah, Rebirth is beyond awesome. Of course I’m also buying the album whenever it hits the shelves.
Also, did anyone else notice how damn good Shanell was on this album?
im always buying the releases even if i had the leak before as with C3 f.e
and i aint plannin on stoppin with that
SUPPORT WEEZY B*tches !!!
THE LEAKED REBIRTH WAS GREAT!!! WE ARE YOUNG MONEY WAS GREAT!!!!
CANT WAIT TILL DEC 21ST!! TO BUY IT!! AND FEB 1ST TO BUY THEY “NEW” REBIRTH WITH NEW SONGS!!!!
btw rebirth better than i thought
if he evolves again for the feb release then it culd be even more awesome
btw SnL is always awesome not just on rebirth
no doubt runnin is effin awesome <3
Did anyone get pictures from the show last night?
AND YES !! SUFFERTREE I SAID THE SAME THING TO MYSELF!!! SHANELL aka SNL WAS AMAZING ON THE ALBUM!!!! IM ON HER BAND WAGON EVEN MORE NOW!!! WAITIN FOR HER ALBUM TO COME OUT!!! LOLL
IM RICHIE JR FROM THE BRONX, NY & IMA YOUNG MONEY REPRESENTA TO THA FULLEST!
HALF OF THESE BROKE PEOPLE SAY THERE GONNA BUY TO SUPPORT HIM BUT HALF OF THEM WONT !!!!!! I WILL
cool. check out mack maines twitter tweet..
LMFAO! Delay after delay leads to this, hats off to Amazon.
fliz miz is right weezys rap at the end of paradice blew me away an gave me goosebumps man that shit is unreal
you got the link to that Lilweezyfan1? I wanna check it out.
Rebirth = Epic
didnt he use this line in Looser also: “This is my testification/ I’ma rain on they heads like precipitation/ And in hell do you need justification/ But for me it was just a vacation.”?
yes@ oslo complete 1st verse of runnin is loser verse
They should release the leaked version of Rebirth on Dec. 22
yo these niggass wrong..juss cuz u downloaded it dont mean u not loyal and u not gonna buy it..imma loyal weezy fan but we waited a fuckin year to hear dis shit..i downloaded it and im still gonna buy it wen it comes out
REBIRTH IS SICK IT’S AN ALL NEW WAYNE GOING HARD WITH ROCK INSTEAD OF HIP HOP. NOW EVEN MORE PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD WILL NOTICE HIM THIS IS PERFECT WAYNE’S FAME IS NOT LOWERING IT’S GOING UP SO FUCK WHAT A HATER GOTTA SAY WAYNE IS SO ABOVE YALL HE CAN’T SEE WHATS GOING ON AT THE BOTTOM AND MOTHER FUCKER HE’S STILL CLIMBING HE ALREADY HAS HIP HOP IN HIS RIGHT HAND SOON ROCK IN HIS LEFT HE’S AN ROCKIN ROLL ALL STAR HIP HOP LEGEND.
LIL WAYNE CASH MONEY , YOUNG MONEY FOR LIFE BITCHES . HOLD THA HATERS
REBIRTH IS FU*KIN GARBAGE. IT SHIT*Y AS HELL. WAYNES GOTTA REMAKE IT.
LIKE I SAID BFOE CERTIFIED WAYNE HEAD DOWN TIL WELL HAHA DA END OF FAEVA N DAZ NEVA YUNG MULAAA.
WELL JUS WAITIN FA FEB 1ST TO GET DAT REBIRTH IN MY WAYNE COLLECTION
I’m am sorrry, I have to scout out the songs that leaked, but I will still buy it just like I just bought the hat he wore on the set of On Fire. I am more fan then blow.
He just having funn with it! it’s a pretty good album wayy better than the YM album
MAN I WANT TO BE WIT YOUNG MONEY SO BAD !!!!!
but ay peoples check me out at http://www.myspace.com/yaboyjsax tell me what u think…add me…I WOULD APPRECIATE IT
yea boi! i went last night fkin amazin! ill upload some a little later! yeeeahh!
best song: ground zero
second: drop the world
third: so over you
forth: da da da
yes guys both albums have leaked i have both but i still plan on buying the albums when they do come out and the the tracks are in cdq
@mohammed
im from iraq
there is no who knows lil wayne or rebirth
few people know lil wayne in here
so i told my sister in the uk to buy me two copies of rebirth and a copy of we are youn money
and rebirth is amazin
and here is the download link for rebirth and we are young money
http://www.rapgodfathers.com/download
Shanell freaking killed her rebirth tracks
she should deffinally do more songs like that
I am loyal bitch…i downloaded it but buying both albums when they publically drop.
im glad ur not postin it on here danny…..ouuta respect to wayne but i dont knw if it feel the same if i didnt already have tha albums
@Danny
do you have the that flower song
when can you try to post the track
Rebirth is fucking awesome and much better than i expected!
Fuck 2pac, Lil Wayne for HipHop-Godfather!
Mad respect to LilWaynehq for not posting the leaked Albums.
however, just because someone may have downloaded it, doesnt mean that theyre not loyal (@Turth). I buy EVERYTHING Wayne puts out. But im fed up with these push backs and i wanted Rebirth so i downloaed it. That doesnt mean im not gonna buy it though. Ill proally buy it twice, once in record format to frame it too. so stfu Turth acting like youre a loyal fan. A true loyal fan craves his music 24/7 and cant wait till february 1st to hear his music, thus they cop the leaks to crave theyre quench- even though theyll still buy it when it officially comes out.
@george
yeah shanell was fucking amazing. Runnin’ is so sickkkkk
Did he say fuck 2pac?? Come on dawg the game evolves u don’t have Wayne without tupac n u don’t have either without rakim. Rip PAC respect the dead
going to buy 2 copies of rebirth…….man amazon ppl are stupied……….best songs: drop the world, so over you, and on fire
Here are some pictures from last nights concert that i went to you have Lil Wayne and Birdman and some of Young Money! Enjoy!
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READ THIS!!!
according to Mack Maine, on twitter the other day, 2010 Rebirth will be better/different than do 2009 Rebirth .
just to let ya know
Nicki Minaj Went Sooo Hard In “Knockout”
Rebirth Was Great!!
Havn’t Downloaded “We Are Young Money” Yet.. Waitin TO Buy That On Tuesday!
SUPPORT AND BUY IT YOU FUCKING LEACHERS!
thanks
@fuck ya’ll who hatin i download it from the same site and the best song is paradice.i will buy the album off course lil wayne did what any 1 cant do in a short time. THE BEST ON EVERYTHING
THIS SHOULD BE HIS NEW LOGO
Support this man, he blessed us with no ceilings for free. and rebirth its Dope!!! i Love every single song, the more i listen to them more the more i like them.
iMa buY this ALBUM! RE and YM
REBIRTH IS FU*KIN GARBAGE
@ ariel dubon , your stupid* u dont even no how to spell stupid hahahaha
i downloaded the album, but that’s because i have all his albums downloaded on my laptop, but i still went and bought them : ) , so i hope it comes out soon. i really want to check out the album art too.
danny just scared of lil twist cas he said if he leaks the album he is going to take legal actions or somethin like dat …… go look whadd he said if u dont believe me on when pass the dutch x ms. parker and finale on the lil wayne page
I Love Tha Rebirth & We Are Young Money albums both Best Albums
Go Buy tha real one when they come out
Official Rebirth Tracklist:
01. American Star (Feat. Shanell Aka SNL)
02. Prom Queen (Feat. Shanell Aka SNL)
03. Ground Zero
04. Da Da Da
05. Paradice
06. Get A Life
07. On Fire
08. Drop The World (Feat. Eminem)
09. Runnin (Feat. Shanell Aka SNL)
10. One Way Trip (Feat. Kevin Rudolf)
11. Knockout (Feat. Nicki Minaj)
12. The Price Is Wrong
13. Die For You
14. So Over You (Feat. Shanell Aka SNL)
Bonus Tracks
15. Ground Zero [Remix] (Feat. Tyga)
16. Ready For The World
17. Amazing Love (Feat. Gudda Gudda)
18. Hot Revolver (Feat. Dre)
19. I’m Not Human
20. Politics (Feat. Gudda Gudda)
21. Most Wanted Rockstar
Rebirth Deluxe edition 16 HOT trax… Get it… Buy it… Biaatchez!!!
I wonder, if the flower song is on rebirth !?
But where is it else?
anybody got the song off the rebirth die for u
aight cool,can’t wait till rebirth dec.21.2009!!!!
i aint gon lie i wasnt really feelin it wen i first heard it but once i liten to it more i like it more… ima buy it
Great Album folks imma buy it whenever
American Star & Ground Zero is my fuckin shit
WTF CANT MY NIGGA DO!!!!!
THA CARTER 4: Coming Soon………………………………………….
Evry1 go buy rebirth!!!!!!! dont think of it as just buying rebirth, think of it as buying rebirth, no ceilings and evry song he has released since tha carter 3 over a year ago – we owe him at least 12$/€/£
Evry1 go buy rebirth!!!!!!! dont think of it as just buying rebirth, think of it as buying rebirth, no ceilings and evry song he has released since tha carter 3 over a year ago – we owe him at leasst 12$/€/£
someone please post the download link! for both albums
i thought dey stopped it from leakin
Is there going to be a new track list when the album comes out?
We Are Young Money: http://www.supashare.net/zq35xn8ugi7j
Rebirth: http://www.supashare.net/1b8pms74jz3j
Rebirth (Bonus Tracks): http://www.supashare.net/u84xxsiv9za9
Y’ALL MAKE SURE Y’ALL BUY IT TOO!!!!
why the hell would anyone pay money for this? this seriously took him over a year to make? Theres only 12 songs and only about 5 of them are worth listening to.
This is my fukin question.. where its the fukin flow song or flower song at>??? not on re not on ym wat the fuk??? WHERE! i dont wannna wait to long for that song to come out..:S
im so over you is my shit ,shanell rockin my world <3
for all of you guys wanting that “flower” song…if you watched the documentary by QD3 and payed enough attention to it…you would realize that at the end of the r&b song…he asks to add something into the song…and all he says is “Pain”…meaning it’s t-pains turn to sing something….
a.k.a. this will be on the T-Wayne album coming up…you’re welcome..be patient
i jus saw a kmart add here in california in the fresno area n they have lil wayne’s rebirth as a new release. buy the album n u get a free poster. thats whats advertise…but i havent gone to kmart to see if the album is indeed being sold.
when god forbid lil wayne dies he will go down in history as one of tha best rappers of all time. he will also be remembered for not only Tha Carter III but for Rebirth cause it was tha best of his albums. Runnin had to be tha best song i’ve heard from him, longside Die For You.
its once you black you never go back, when you go Wayne, everyone else is whack. not white. come on
i liked this article inparticular. “Young Money Princess”, ahh thats so Nikki,! shes the rawest chick to rep young money. I wonder how her nd weezy met. “I was born and raised in the U.S.A., where my president is b-l-a-c-k-” in my opinion Obama is a bit overated considering he hasn’t done alot of the things he said he would but the referance is sick, hopefully Obama is a young money fan, if not he needs to be. haha.
This is going to sound super gay but….
on the Hannah Montana episode where Hannah is trying to find a new image and goes for the not so popular goth she says she was doing it beacuse she needs to find her “new new” image. I feel like this is what lil’ wayne is doin, bein two steps ahead of the game. Hes done rap for so many years so rock shit is the way to go, it has become a bit unpopular with some people tho b/c they think lil wayne’s image does not agree with the new style of music he’s trying out. Personally, i say kudos.
and once you go wayne/ Everyone else is wack
Haaah they messed up on the lyrics did anyone catch that ???…in “knock out” its…” once u go black u never go back n once u go WAYNE everybody else is wack”
Sweeeeet i like no 3