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Although the cleaner melodies and pop polish seem to mute the rapper's stream-of-consciousness salvos, he still shines on "Drop the World," featuring Eminem.
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The problem is that Wayne has very questionable taste in rock. He splutters and wails over tracks stuffed with aggro stomp and bland riffage; it sounds like he's been holing up with a bunch of Spymob and Incubus records.
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Lil Wayne’s status and influence is now clearly working against him, the choice to release a rock record has backfired, yet obviously no-one has had the guts or inclination to tell him that the overblown choruses and riffs of Rebirth drag him away from the in-your-face lyricism and unorthadox flows that he is best at.
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Concocting the world's finest excrement-related rhymes, Rebirth is most definitely a flop, terribly unsexy, and contains surprisingly few shit jokes.
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For the most part, though, Rebirth underlines what he can't: the problem of rap-metal remains unsolvable, even by him.
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When he emerged from his stupor, he announced that he was giving up rap to make a guitar album. Which brings us to ‘Rebirth’, a shlock-rock record so absurd it makes Alien Ant Farm seem like a legitimate musical venture.
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It’s more interesting to ponder Wayne's reasons for making Rebirth than to actually listen to it, because the end result is a loud and ignorable bore.
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Tere are no sultry Organized Noize beats, no effortless Sleepy Brown hooks, no ferocious Raekwon verses—just an endless stream of abysmally written, Auto Tune-drenched nothings.
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UncutAt least it is in its worst moments the songs beome subservient to clunky genre experiment. [Apr 2010, p.92]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 57 out of 210
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Mixed: 14 out of 210
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Negative: 139 out of 210
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DogbiscuitFeb 19, 2010Don't give it a zero. 'Drop The World' and the intro to 'Runnin' were kinda good.
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Jan 17, 2012
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Jun 3, 2011