[Blog] Lil' Wayne Covers Billboard, Talks "Rebirth"

by MrWhiteFolks on October 30th, 2009

http://media.defsounds.com/uploads/assets/1602/1668/28805/asset.jpegLil Wayne sits down with Billboard Magazine, as he graces the cover for their November issue and speaks on his upcoming album "Rebirth".

Given earlier leaks from the project, did you make many changes to the final version?

"As of now Rebirth is coming out as a double disc with a [disc of songs] by Young Money. I had to add new cuts because a lot of things leaked, making people think they had an idea of what I was doing with Rebirth and what it would sound like. And I hated that because I never want anybody to think they know what I’m doing until I present it. So what I did was make it totally different I flipped it."

Does the album still lean toward rock?

"Yes, the album is still rock. I play guitar on 80% of the songs and there’s a lot of rock influences and rock beats. I also have Travis Barker on the album. But I don’t want people to think I’m trying to do something I can’t do. Don’t think you’re going to put on the album and hear me screaming and singing . . . Don’t worry about that [laughs]. When people hear me say rock, they may get a little scared like, Oh, God. What is he going to do? When I said I was doing a rock album, it was about doing a freedom thing. This album isn’t hip-hop. When I do my Carter albums, I know I’ve got to rap, I know I’ve got to spit. I know the words I’ve got to say and the subjects I’ve got to talk about. I also know the things I shouldn’t say, the things I shouldn’t talk about. There’s none of those limits on this album. I say what I want, how I want. That’s what this album is: a freedom album. And rock is the avenue that gives you that freedom. I’m just having fun, that’s all. Trust me: People will like these songs. It’s my job to make them love them, but I know for a fact they’ll like them."

Spotted Rap radar Via: Billboard.com

 

 
 
 
 

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matthewblaze4 months ago
WTF is around his neck? Is that thing a guitar strap HA!

not gonna lie i’m diggin no ceilings tho
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alwaysstrapped4 months ago
Yeah hip hop people might not like the rebirth but a lot will
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domo2024 months ago
hell yeah no ceilings should of been called da drought 4 wayne ripped that whole mixtape fuck that rock album shit i wanna hear carter 4
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bigfreeze4 months ago
I lost count of how many “no homos” it would take to make that magazine cover not gay.
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gitmunny4 months ago
if i wanna hear rock i’ll buy a kings of leon, nickelback or coldplay album… u can make a freedom album n still b hiphop… thats jus a bullshit excuse 2 make a rock album that no lil wayne fans wanna hear… if u buy rebirth ur stupid… you’ll b supportin an experiment: 2 c if wayne can go retarded on a album n it still go platinum… until tha carter 4 i’ll bump no ceilings
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brauc4 months ago
^^^^BIGFREEZE, HOW THE FUCK CAN YOU CALL SOMETHING GAY WHEN YOU HAVE TWO DOGS FUCKIN AS YOUR AVATAR??? PATHETIC, GO JERK OFF WITH ICY HOT
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kingml2134 months ago
I WILL NOT BE BUYINGREBIRTH
-had to say that upfront

ON A BETTER NOT "NO CEILING " IS REALLY GOOD.
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knawledge4 months ago
@ brauc

hahaha
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50kingz4 months ago
Wayne’s gonna have the 2nd best album of the year behind 50 and before Em
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yunghaze184 months ago
I always knew wayne was part cactus.. he said he got a swagger so sharp…
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hedgehog564 months ago
Does anyone even care if this album ever comes out?
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chunk4 months ago
I’m not one of em….I’ll take No Ceilings and leave the rest alone until he get bck to what he suppose to be doing
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chalieboy4 months ago
who are u to say what hes suppose to be doing? Obvisouly you haters will hop right back on his dick when he puts out a fire mixtape so why should he care lmfao
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bigfreeze4 months ago
it looks like charlie boy cares!

personally, i cant wait to hear wayne do a rock album. its gonna be sick! i’m gonna listen to it with a bunch of high school kids right before we see the new Twilight movie.
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chalieboy4 months ago
lmfao wait a sec. Arent you that dumb looking white guy with the weird shaped head? Wonder why you changed your pic
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paigecox23234 months ago
SHID I CARE, FUKK CHUNK.. WHAT HE POSE TO BE DOING?? DAM YOU TALKIN LIKE YOU THA CEO OF CASH MONEY LABEL.. NIGHA YOU A ACCOUNT USER ON DEFSOUND.. YOU HAVE UR OPINIONS NONE OF IT COUNTS.. JUSS DONT LISTEN TO HIS SONGS..=)

LOL..YM-CM
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chalieboy4 months ago
No Ceilings > BISD
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matthewblaze4 months ago
Curtis > Rebirth haha
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dhildreth4 months ago
charlieboy i know they trashing but imma have to agree no ceilings is probably hotter than most albums out rite now n im sure it will surpass 50’s too
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tekk4 months ago
now THATS dickriding.
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dhildreth4 months ago
no bitch jus the mutha fuckin truth…n must be a 50 stan
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younggippy4 months ago
First !!!
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bigfreeze4 months ago
you cant even do “first” right. what a fuckin loser.
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andrei1874 months ago
@ younggippy
gosh, you’re such a fuccin homo
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kingml2134 months ago
AGREE.
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chunk4 months ago
Real talk, I got 2 things to say……. that album don’t sound promising from what I’ve heard & that is one of the gayest looking magazine covers of all time (a spike vest…WTF, happy he aint wearin a chasity belt)
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yunghaze184 months ago
chasity belt ILMAO.. haha..
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mindfuckt4 months ago
i know you ain’t serious about that comment about no ceilings being better than bisd. don’t get me wrong that mixtape was dope ! i heard the 50 album and it wasn’t entirely what i expected but it was a solid album. it was nice to hear 50 spittin that hard shit again. anyways… that magazine cover is a little judas priest (gay) for those of you who don’t know. lol. hopefully rebirth is better than the SHIT that we’ve all already heard.
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chalieboy4 months ago
u must be retarded if you think that shitty album is anything close to the level of no ceilings. 50 still cant go back to his old style of great metaphors. Maybe he got his gritty style back but his lyrics arent back. If you can spit one line better than a line im bout to give you from no ceilings, u will have prove me wrong

Been a beast and still i am, now i rock but still i jam, few niggas on me got that white girl like Will.i.am

wow that line is crazy
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chalieboy4 months ago
ahahha u 50 stans can trash me but id still like a line better than that
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tekk4 months ago
how can you even start to talk about 50? his choruses are amazing on every song, ok your right was GENIUS :I’m in that 760 leaning when i’m stunting,I blow 50 gs, I mean with ease like this is nothing. his lyrics might not be up to par with lupe,nas,or eminem, but no one has the sick flow he has AND his delivery,and choruses.
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thuglife4life4 months ago
who’s wayne ?
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chalieboy4 months ago
that dude ur g/f cares more about that you
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thuglife4life4 months ago
she cares more about 50cent !
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rscrbc4 months ago
damn chalie, you stay on wayne’s dick, huh?
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kingml2134 months ago
charlieboy likes to hate sometimes.

NOT HIS FAULT HATING ON EXTREME IS IN HIS BLOOD
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andrei1874 months ago
@ chalieboy
wayne stan, my man lol
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chalieboy4 months ago
50 stans are funny
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wrongidea4 months ago
I’m not gonna judge it til I hear it. Cuz i fuck with rock, (fuck you if you got something to say about that) and I can defiintely tell a good song from a bad one. By what I’ve already heard, i don’t see this being good at all. He lacks the substance to make rock songs. He’s Good at rapping and a GREAT mixtape artist cuz he doesn’t have to be poetic,intricate, or stay on point.lol Lupe got some sick ass Rock shit out there, He has 1 song of rock on both his albums and is about to drop an album with his band “Japanese Cartoon”. that shit is gonna be sick. (Listen to “crowd reaction”)
Man, Fuck Lil Wayne’s Rebirth. He probably jocked the idea from hearing Lupe’s shit anyway.smh
But I’m sure his “fans” are gonna say he didn’t, that he always experimented with rock.smh
Stick to rapping nigga.
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paigecox23234 months ago
NAW BRAH I SERIOUSLY DOUBT HE GOT THAT FROM LUPE.. CUZ LUPE BEEN OUT SINCE LIKE 06 AND WAYNE JUS STARTING THIS ROCK JUNK LAST YEAR.. I MOST DEFINITELY THINK HE WAS INFLUENCED BY KEVIN RUDOLF WHO HE JUSS SIGNED.. LAST YEARLET IT ROCK”.. OR MAYBE WAYNE JUSS BEEN THA TRENDSETTER HE IS.. LIKE T-PAIN GOT ALOT OF PPL STARTED IN AUTO.. MAYBE WAYNE WANT TO BE WITH THA GREATS AND WITH THAT YOU GOT TO TAKE CHANCES AND BE ORINGNAL NOT.. EVERYBODY SOUNDING OR TALKIN ABT THA SAME THING
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tekk4 months ago
whys this dude so mad ^^ ? lupe is craazy , his rock rap shit is really good, never thought id say that , the dude is to fucking good but i cant find more of his rock rap stuff, can someone give me the names of some?
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wrongidea4 months ago
@ paigecox2323

Your just on his dick too much to actually think he takes things from other artists.smh
He stole the Bathing Ape thing from the Clipse, the skateboarder look from Lupe fans(but he tweeked it),His style from Jay(carter 1 onto now, and the freestyling songs thing: he even admits it on Knuck if you buck freestyle), and now the rock thing! He’s not the first rapper or even the best rapper at it! So please stop tryna say how Wayne is original.smh
I hope for your sake, that when he comes to your town, that you’re the first chick that gets to suck his dick. cuz I can tell you desperately want to.smh @ groupies
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paigecox23234 months ago
lol.. you lil az dudes.. suck his dick brah? naw i rather you do it since you be all on his shit juss as well as i do..
and boy wayne juss started dressing like that.. and Lupe wasnt even out that much at that time of last year..
but brah i aint even gone fuss with you..
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mindfuckt4 months ago
you mean a line from bisd or any of 50’s ???
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chalieboy4 months ago
a line from bisd
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tekk4 months ago
I’m in that 760 leaning when i’m stunting
I blow 50 gs, I mean with ease like this is nothing
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tekk4 months ago
You can ask my son he’ll tell you my Dad’s fucking crazy.
She filled his head with shit and now I think he fucking hates me.
Shady didn’t invent me but a star is what he made me.
I blow your fucking mind now if I told you what he paid me
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chalieboy4 months ago
dude that line is fucking ass lmfao
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blackmamba244 months ago
i would have to say that is a sub par normal couple of lines you got there dawg..i like that song tho !!
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thugzboy4 months ago
@ tekk

that line is not from bisd
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dhildreth4 months ago
im actually kind of happy he gave that interview in i hope he really does change it up cuz i was not anticipating that album for shit… but after i hear a few leaks it cud b hot who knows..
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alwaysstrapped4 months ago
I agree this folks just hate what they can I actually want to listen to the rebirth because of some of the leaks and the last song on no ceilings
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assholebynature4 months ago
If most of the shit sounds like “In Your Face”(Spit) and “Lethal Injection”(Politics) I’m copping day one. “No Ceilings” flow is insane by the way.
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yunghaze184 months ago
hell yea assholebynature those songs are dope if rebirth sounds like that imma be bumping that shit those rock songs hard..
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cali7604 months ago
its going to be nothing but singing
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taytrav44 months ago
if its anything like that one song “fix my hat”
ill fuck with it. other than that no ceilings blastin in my civic coupe
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justblaze084 months ago
wayne is gonna sell like 150 thousand in its first week
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thugbaby4 months ago
way higher then that
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kelloggz4 months ago
nice vest wayne….fag
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r3m1x4 months ago
it’s a guitar strap… sperm burper
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211onda9114 months ago
I only got 1 thing to say….“NO CEILINGS !”, thats my album from Weezy for the year, he killed it every nigga in my city is happy that Wayne killed, F*CK REBIRTH…wake me up when the Carter IV drop.
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yunghaze184 months ago
I wanna see if the album is gonna be tight I am gonna download the album for free yes my niggas free because I got connects like that online.. Dont google the shit either it wont work its a site you go to for music.. anyways I am gonna check this album out and check it out.. I am definatly gonna buy the Carter 4 and support his nigga and maybe young money too idk yet..
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yunghaze184 months ago
I am probably gonna get trashed for saying this but I think Wayne should do a dance hall tehcno mixtape.. Not the gay shit yall thinking about but music like captain hollywood, La bouche, snap, real mccoy type beats and themes.. That shit would be hard those beats are ill I can see wayne saying some Ill shit on some of those beats he kinda fucks with beats like that a little…
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sparkfirehot4 months ago
@yunghaze hun?
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yunghaze184 months ago
You know that song nightmares or tell everybody that you know on kanye cd that was some what im talkin about.. those beats are ill and they killed it..
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hennessey4 months ago
Fuck Rebirth but I’ll bump to No Ceiling for a while


“Too Many Rappers Not Enough Mc’s”
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