With “Prom Queen” and the album version of “Hot Revolver” [click to read] out, Lil Wayne’s Rebirth is on track to hit stores June 16th.
While some critics see the guitar and Auto-Tune singing as a Rock facade created by the New Orleans rapper, Wayne tells Rolling Stone magazine that the transition occurred because of his evolution as a person. “The Rock shit just comes from what my life is now…I’ve grown into this person.”
With his 2008 album Tha Carter III selling over a million copies in the first week, Wayne has become the quintessential Hip Hop superstar of today. With that accomplished, Wayne explains that he realized a calling to branch out of his musical box. “I just got — I’m not going to say ‘so good’ at what I was doing, but it became such a regularity for me that I got tired of it. And then I said, ‘You know what? I’m not going to rap on this one.’”
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Repeating similar words that Baby told VIBE magazine recently [click to read], Wayne has set his expectations higher for Rebirth as an artist. “I don’t want to be the best rapper in the world. Not now…I want to be the best. Period. Now. My favorite rapper hasn’t done what I’m doing.”
Fans can check out the full Rolling Stone interview with Lil Wayne in their new issue, which hits newsstands this week.
