flizzy

3y

Day 16: Lil Wayne - Rebirth

I assume this album has to be a passion project of Lil Wayne because if this was intended to have mainstream success, releasing a rock album while being the biggest rapper in the world is a risky decision, if this was intended to have critical acclaim, someone must've told him it was bad. Plus I'm sure nobody thought this was a quality record. So I assume he just wanted to have fun, make a rock album and play guitar just because he can, and I can't hate on that, but for a passion project to be so bad and also try to sound like the most cheap poppy mainstream version of rock, it's mindblowing.

The listenable songs here are: Drop The World (amazing), Knockout (funny and ironic), On Fire and Paradice. The rest are mid to unlistenable.

Wayne's vocals being drenched in autotune and distorting sometimes has something to it, in some songs I really like it, but for most of his albums his vocals are off key, grating, and can sometimes ruin an otherwise decent rock song. Shanell who is also featured here multiple times also has awful vocals. I'd prefer Lil Wayne to rap and do a rap rock kind of mashup like he did on Runnin, it works better than most songs here where he just sounds out of place and awkward. Dadada is an awful song.

So I'm all in for artists taking risks and doing what they want but I won't be doing revisionist history, yes this album is bad. And every few months someone here claims this album is influential and influenced all the rappers who claim to be "rock stars" and have mosh pits. I think it's mostly Wayne's image and the fact he wanted to play guitar and less the music on this album. Otherwise Uzi, Carti, Travis or whoever says they're a rock star would just have the worst rock songs mumbling about being a funky monkey.

3/10

flizzy

3y

Day 16: Lil Wayne - Rebirth

I assume this album has to be a passion project of Lil Wayne because if this was intended to have mainstream success, releasing a rock album while being the biggest rapper in the world is a risky decision, if this was intended to have critical acclaim, someone must've told him it was bad. Plus I'm sure nobody thought this was a quality record. So I assume he just wanted to have fun, make a rock album and play guitar just because he can, and I can't hate on that, but for a passion project to be so bad and also try to sound like the most cheap poppy mainstream version of rock, it's mindblowing.

The listenable songs here are: Drop The World (amazing), Knockout (funny and ironic), On Fire and Paradice. The rest are mid to unlistenable.

Wayne's vocals being drenched in autotune and distorting sometimes has something to it, in some songs I really like it, but for most of his albums his vocals are off key, grating, and can sometimes ruin an otherwise decent rock song. Shanell who is also featured here multiple times also has awful vocals. I'd prefer Lil Wayne to rap and do a rap rock kind of mashup like he did on Runnin, it works better than most songs here where he just sounds out of place and awkward. Dadada is an awful song.

So I'm all in for artists taking risks and doing what they want but I won't be doing revisionist history, yes this album is bad. And every few months someone here claims this album is influential and influenced all the rappers who claim to be "rock stars" and have mosh pits. I think it's mostly Wayne's image and the fact he wanted to play guitar and less the music on this album. Otherwise Uzi, Carti, Travis or whoever says they're a rock star would just have the worst rock songs mumbling about being a funky monkey.

3/10

flizzy

3y

Day 16: Lil Wayne - Rebirth

I assume this album has to be a passion project of Lil Wayne because if this was intended to have mainstream success, releasing a rock album while being the biggest rapper in the world is a risky decision, if this was intended to have critical acclaim, someone must've told him it was bad. Plus I'm sure nobody thought this was a quality record. So I assume he just wanted to have fun, make a rock album and play guitar just because he can, and I can't hate on that, but for a passion project to be so bad and also try to sound like the most cheap poppy mainstream version of rock, it's mindblowing.

The listenable songs here are: Drop The World (amazing), Knockout (funny and ironic), On Fire and Paradice. The rest are mid to unlistenable.

Wayne's vocals being drenched in autotune and distorting sometimes has something to it, in some songs I really like it, but for most of his albums his vocals are off key, grating, and can sometimes ruin an otherwise decent rock song. Shanell who is also featured here multiple times also has awful vocals. I'd prefer Lil Wayne to rap and do a rap rock kind of mashup like he did on Runnin, it works better than most songs here where he just sounds out of place and awkward. Dadada is an awful song.

So I'm all in for artists taking risks and doing what they want but I won't be doing revisionist history, yes this album is bad. And every few months someone here claims this album is influential and influenced all the rappers who claim to be "rock stars" and have mosh pits. I think it's mostly Wayne's image and the fact he wanted to play guitar and less the music on this album. Otherwise Uzi, Carti, Travis or whoever says they're a rock star would just have the worst rock songs mumbling about being a funky monkey.

3/10

Dedication 666

3y

rebirth also not that bad and a lot of the hate is just because its wayne doing it.

flizzy

3y

Day 16: Lil Wayne - Rebirth

I assume this album has to be a passion project of Lil Wayne because if this was intended to have mainstream success, releasing a rock album while being the biggest rapper in the world is a risky decision, if this was intended to have critical acclaim, someone must've told him it was bad. Plus I'm sure nobody thought this was a quality record. So I assume he just wanted to have fun, make a rock album and play guitar just because he can, and I can't hate on that, but for a passion project to be so bad and also try to sound like the most cheap poppy mainstream version of rock, it's mindblowing.

The listenable songs here are: Drop The World (amazing), Knockout (funny and ironic), On Fire and Paradice. The rest are mid to unlistenable.

Wayne's vocals being drenched in autotune and distorting sometimes has something to it, in some songs I really like it, but for most of his albums his vocals are off key, grating, and can sometimes ruin an otherwise decent rock song. Shanell who is also featured here multiple times also has awful vocals. I'd prefer Lil Wayne to rap and do a rap rock kind of mashup like he did on Runnin, it works better than most songs here where he just sounds out of place and awkward. Dadada is an awful song.

So I'm all in for artists taking risks and doing what they want but I won't be doing revisionist history, yes this album is bad. And every few months someone here claims this album is influential and influenced all the rappers who claim to be "rock stars" and have mosh pits. I think it's mostly Wayne's image and the fact he wanted to play guitar and less the music on this album. Otherwise Uzi, Carti, Travis or whoever says they're a rock star would just have the worst rock songs mumbling about being a funky monkey.

3/10

flizzy

3y

Day 16: Lil Wayne - Rebirth

I assume this album has to be a passion project of Lil Wayne because if this was intended to have mainstream success, releasing a rock album while being the biggest rapper in the world is a risky decision, if this was intended to have critical acclaim, someone must've told him it was bad. Plus I'm sure nobody thought this was a quality record. So I assume he just wanted to have fun, make a rock album and play guitar just because he can, and I can't hate on that, but for a passion project to be so bad and also try to sound like the most cheap poppy mainstream version of rock, it's mindblowing.

The listenable songs here are: Drop The World (amazing), Knockout (funny and ironic), On Fire and Paradice. The rest are mid to unlistenable.

Wayne's vocals being drenched in autotune and distorting sometimes has something to it, in some songs I really like it, but for most of his albums his vocals are off key, grating, and can sometimes ruin an otherwise decent rock song. Shanell who is also featured here multiple times also has awful vocals. I'd prefer Lil Wayne to rap and do a rap rock kind of mashup like he did on Runnin, it works better than most songs here where he just sounds out of place and awkward. Dadada is an awful song.

So I'm all in for artists taking risks and doing what they want but I won't be doing revisionist history, yes this album is bad. And every few months someone here claims this album is influential and influenced all the rappers who claim to be "rock stars" and have mosh pits. I think it's mostly Wayne's image and the fact he wanted to play guitar and less the music on this album. Otherwise Uzi, Carti, Travis or whoever says they're a rock star would just have the worst rock songs mumbling about being a funky monkey.

3/10

mr get dough

3y

Rebirth isnt good and isn’t nearly as influential as people claim it is tbh, doing a trend before it became a trend doesn’t always mean u were an influence directly on the trend

Love Wayne tho

Dedication 666

3y

it would be different if wayne was irrelevant and made a rock album but he made it during his commercial peak. Album leaked 6 months before release and still did 176k first week and over 1.5 million to date

mr get dough

3y

I mean yeah thats cool, the album made an impact I don’t think that translates to influence

I mean maybe a couple artist listened to it as kids and got into rock through it so it has some influence but I don’t think it influenced the culture as a whole and had lots of people studying aspects of the album

Dedication 666

3y

rebirth also not that bad and a lot of the hate is just because its wayne doing it.

flizzy

3y

I Day 12: Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid

I wish I liked it more. My thoughts about Janelle in general, she's a good singer, performer, actress, and a visionary. Because this is not a typical album especially not for a debut record.

Since this is a concept album I decided to read about the story a bit. This is a sequel to her EP Metropolis which came out a few years before. It's supposed to be "part 1" and this album is divided into "part 2" and "part 3". In the story, Janelle plays the role of Cindi an android, who came back in time to save the citizens of Metropolis. And androids here are supposed to represent minorities.

Listening to this you can tell there's a lot of thought put into it. It has a lot of different sounds and is created from a lot of different inspirations. Whether it's OutKast (since she is a part of the Dungeon family) on songs like Tightrope and Come Alive. Prince on some of these songs (and the album concept sounds like a Prince thing for sure). Even some Pink Floyd and progressive rock on a few of these songs.

This has a lot of songs that sound like baroque (like medieval theatrical music) and musical theater, which are not my favorites... it covers up most of the first half and the long outro Babopbyeya. There's definitely some soul in Janelle's performance so it spices it up but it's really not my thing and what keeps me from being into this album.

Luckily it picks up with the second half of the album which is more R&B focused with some indie and neo soul. Highlights like Neon Valley Street, Make the Bus, Wondaland, and the beautiful "Say You'll Go".

So this album got me conflicted. On one hand I appreciate the artistry, and it is impressive musically and conceptually. But on the other hand I'll never be in the mood for this and won't really play any of these songs out of the album's context.

Edit: Forgot to say this but as far as vocal talent alone this is the best album yet. She's hitting these notes well.