I'm gonna be completely honest here I finished the album 10 minutes ago and I absolutely loved it. I wanted to hate it but I just thought Wayne worked amazing with rock instrumentals. I might be a bit biased since my family members are mainly rock listeners except for my stepdad who listens to Eminem. He was playing lose yourself all the time on the TV and that's how I really got into rap over the last year lol, but yeah I'm probably a bit biased since I love rap music to death and my family is also a rock family so I naturally love rock rap as well. This was the 3rd Wayne album I listened to (TC3, TC4) and so far I've been in love with all 3 of them and I'm definitely gonna try to listen to all of his solo projects
I respect that! I’m glad you were able to get a lot more out of it than I (and a lot of others) did, and that you didn’t let that cloud your own judgment or determine your own opinion on it. I hope you enjoy going through the rest of Wayne’s discography. I think he can be a bit inconsistent, but he’s got some gems. I personally love TC5, and I hope you enjoy that when you get to it!
Yeah, I agree that Juice and Peep did it far better. I think that's generally what time does, though: more time allows for sounds and styles to be pushed forward more and more.
Bruh you hating! He can use auto tune if he WANTS! I use to rap and Wayne was my favorite rapper and I use to LOVE autotune as well! American star and on fire and so over you are the top 3 but I like them ALL! And REALLY he should’ve made it a joint rock album with shanell cuz she good enough to HELP him with it and you obviously not a fan cuz Shanell ADMITS he asked her to help with it! Yuh just trying to get VIEWS plus you saying you not a fan so why review it? Cuz u KNOW it was highly criticized so you KNEW you would get views! Like wayne said it went GOLD so someone bought it 💁🏾♂️
Awesome! That's honestly a great thing. I'm glad the album was able to do something for you that it didn't do for me. No one review or opinion is fact, and music is extremely subjective, so it's all about what you make of it and how you feel about it. Even if I didn't enjoy the album, I'm glad you were still able to.
Yeah, exactly. I can respect when an artist experiments and goes for something entirely different than expected. It won't work for everyone (like this album for me), but again, the beauty of music is that not everyone has to like the same thing, so it could definitely work for others.
Yes, and I did say in the video and in the description that it was my favorite song on the album. One song doesn't make an entire album good, unfortunately.
I think this was the right decision. The auto-tune kind of fucked it all up, it was pretty much done with by 2010. Other than that, this is kind of experimentation is necessary for musicians who want to keep evolving. Look at Radiohead's KID A, an electronic album that followed what was at the time maybe the best rock album of all time and as a result were at point of being unable to evolve their rock sound. Wayne probably felt at that moment he could no longer evolve his rap sound.
I understand that, and I respect artists who experiment and don't stick with one sound. That said, as much as I can respect an experiment from afar, I don't think experimenting by itself is automatically enough for me to praise an album, because experiments can obviously go extremely wrong. Otherwise, they wouldn't be called "experiments." I'd like to believe you on the thought that Wayne didn't think he could evolve his rap sound any further, but given that he largely fell right back into the rap sound (other than random genre-bending tracks like How to Love here and there) and treated Rebirth as a one-off thing, I wouldn't be surprised if even he felt this experiment went wrong.
I was on a lil wayne nostalgic listening spree a few days ago, after I was done with TCIII, this album came up and I said "I forgot about this album, I'll give it a listen even tho I remember not liking it when I was younger", 5 songs in and all I wanted to do was rip my ears off 😆, the songs were horrible, Wayne's autotuned fucked vocals were unbearable, the instrumentals were ok but very generic, overall pretty awful experience. Ironically the only good song of this "rock" album was a rap song with Em 😂
My feelings exactly! I'm glad some others in this comment section enjoyed it, but it was the rare album that actually made me feel physical pain when listening to it (specifically hurt my ears lol). The loud, brash instrumentals and Wayne's overuse of autotune...just didn't mix for me. Wayne's autotune is usually fine, but on songs like these, it just doesn't work. And yeah, I agree, Drop The World is a good track, but it is super ironic that a rock album's best track is a rap song lol.
The fact that I don’t really want to do one. Plus I don’t tend to do full reviews of many past albums anymore (TEN YEARS LATER is now a year-end segment, not a regular segment dedicated to individual albums), and even if I did…it’s a 2011 album and the time for me to look at 2011 albums in this series has long since passed.
Might not be a great album but still good in my eyes. This album is impactful to the rap game in today’s day as Wayne crossed barriers and experimented that no other rappers would do during that time. So he paved the way for a lot of rappers in today’s day.
I mean hey, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I do think it was interesting to see Wayne try something that few actually made a genuine effort to do before. Most of the time, rap and rock crossovers just felt like gimmicks. If nothing else, this felt like a somewhat earnest attempt to do it (even if I didn't totally enjoy it). That style would obviously be refined with a lot of the emo rappers, but regardless, Wayne does deserve credit for paving the way, even if the album remains hated by a lot of people.
This album was so good it might be Wayne's worst album but it's better than lot artists whole discographies. I enjoy drop the world, on fire, prom queen, knockout, da da da, running, paradise, one way trip, American star. Basically the whole album is a masterpiece I don't really get the hate on it
The album made me feel physical pain listening to it multiple times for this video. I have no desire to go back to it. I'm glad you enjoyed it more than I did, but we won't all have the same opinions.
Oh really, Tha Carter IV is worse? Hmm...I'm gonna be checking that album out for this series later this year, but I've heard wildly mixed things. Guess I'll just have to see for myself.
@@MattsRandomJourneys Still I have clocked in hundreds of hours listening to Wayne’s albums and mixtapes. For me he is still the G.O.A.T and will always be no matter how bad an album may be reviewed.
Oh yeah, for sure. I've been hard on a few of Wayne's records that I've reviewed, but I'll never deny his talent and his impact. I feel like there are so many modern rappers today that really might not be here or might not sound the same if not for Wayne paving the way for them. Sure, he has some duds, but there are plenty of rappers with discographies as inconsistent as Wayne's that are in the G.O.A.T. conversation (Eminem and Drake are two that jump to mind for me). No matter how many Wayne albums I give negative reviews to, I'll never deny that he's one of the best to do it and is one of hip-hop's most influential figures.
Nah , carter 4 isn’t worse it’s actually really good I bought it when it came out and after hearing stuff like the drought is over 2 and a lot of leaks , I was was like is ok . But after years passed it’s really really good . I listened to rebirth again today and I enjoyed it a lot .
I don't think an artist who is considered one of the greatest rappers of all time is necessarily "misunderstood," but regardless, that's just your opinion. If you like it, great, but that doesn't mean others will, or that their opinions are invalid.
I mean, that doesn’t surprise me. Critical and commercial success are not mutually exclusive: there are albums people love that have struggled to sell, while there are hated albums that have sold like hotcakes. The way of the music world. Also helps that Lil Wayne was at a huge high point in his career at the time, coming off of Tha Carter III and No Ceilings, so there was obviously gonna be huge interest in his next project.
@@MattsRandomJourneys I do agree he was the top rapper at that time meaning the album had a lot of hype surrounding it and therefore he would get a lot of views but for being his worst album in terms of ratings and still going platinum is pretty great in my eyes. I see it as his worst album but I don’t think he shouldn’t get much hate as no other rappers at that time were bold enough to do what he did. The album went platinum in 2020 so it sure took a long time.
Yeah, that's true. I didn't think of it like that, but sometimes, you expect when an artist releases an album that gets waves of hate from the entire music world that it will just fade out commercially, even if the artist is loved. I didn't know it took until 2020 for it to go Platinum, but when you say it like that...yeah, that is even more impressive given the context.
I believe the word is "criticize," not "hate on." You'd think people would stop making that mistake. And yes, I can. If I dislike it, I'm well within my right to criticize it. Whether you can handle that criticism or not is not exactly my concern.
@@MattsRandomJourneys now you're making yourself more important than you are. a trait many critics have. come off your horse. I just don't agree with you. Thats all.
In what way am I making myself "more important" than anyone? I'm not. You claim that I'm "hating on" a song on this album (a tactic many people who can't handle criticism cling to), when all I did was criticize it. Further, you also claim that I "can't" dislike it, as if to say I'm not allowed to have my opinion on it. As far as I'm aware, you began the conversation with your comment, and all I did was reply. It appeared to me you couldn't handle my criticism, so I pointed that out. I'm just one dude online with an opinion; if you rock with the song, keep rocking with it and don't let my opinion deter you. You can have that opinion just as I can have mine.
Nice comparison, I'll say. Never heard that one but I respect it. You're free to disagree, but don't be surprised if you get the response that you get if your "disagreeing" sounds like an inability to handle criticism, as yours did. I'll also once again stress that you started the conversation, and all I did was reply. I didn't take it any more seriously than I'd take any similar interaction; I just gave my response.
I'm only just seeing this comment because UA-cam marked it as spam for some reason, but that's a funny way of saying that you can't accept an opinion that's different from yours. Nothing about my opinion or your opinion is "fact." You can say "it's not a bad album," but that's not fact; that's just your opinion. People are allowed to dislike things. It's better to accept the opinions of others instead of trolling or getting angry just because they don't share the same opinion as you. You're free to enjoy the album, and that's great that you did. I'm also free to dislike the album. The world is not a hive mind where everyone agrees on everything. Reviews don't exist merely to justify your opinion, and if you can't accept that, you should probably just stop watching them.
I'm gonna be completely honest here I finished the album 10 minutes ago and I absolutely loved it. I wanted to hate it but I just thought Wayne worked amazing with rock instrumentals. I might be a bit biased since my family members are mainly rock listeners except for my stepdad who listens to Eminem. He was playing lose yourself all the time on the TV and that's how I really got into rap over the last year lol, but yeah I'm probably a bit biased since I love rap music to death and my family is also a rock family so I naturally love rock rap as well. This was the 3rd Wayne album I listened to (TC3, TC4) and so far I've been in love with all 3 of them and I'm definitely gonna try to listen to all of his solo projects
I respect that! I’m glad you were able to get a lot more out of it than I (and a lot of others) did, and that you didn’t let that cloud your own judgment or determine your own opinion on it.
I hope you enjoy going through the rest of Wayne’s discography. I think he can be a bit inconsistent, but he’s got some gems. I personally love TC5, and I hope you enjoy that when you get to it!
Rebirth was actually flame then and still
Can't agree, but I respect that you were able to get something out of it that I couldn't.
@@MattsRandomJourneys lol on fire, paradice. Die for you . but juice and peep def took it to new heights
Yeah, I agree that Juice and Peep did it far better. I think that's generally what time does, though: more time allows for sounds and styles to be pushed forward more and more.
Bruh you hating! He can use auto tune if he WANTS! I use to rap and Wayne was my favorite rapper and I use to LOVE autotune as well! American star and on fire and so over you are the top 3 but I like them ALL! And REALLY he should’ve made it a joint rock album with shanell cuz she good enough to HELP him with it and you obviously not a fan cuz Shanell ADMITS he asked her to help with it! Yuh just trying to get VIEWS plus you saying you not a fan so why review it? Cuz u KNOW it was highly criticized so you KNEW you would get views! Like wayne said it went GOLD so someone bought it 💁🏾♂️
@@bubbasmithcarter lokey, lil Wayne was the best auto tune user, and the only one I liked that used auto tune
I like the album
Awesome! That's honestly a great thing. I'm glad the album was able to do something for you that it didn't do for me. No one review or opinion is fact, and music is extremely subjective, so it's all about what you make of it and how you feel about it. Even if I didn't enjoy the album, I'm glad you were still able to.
@@MattsRandomJourneys all good dude it's about the artist experimenting with other sounds but you're right music is subjective
Yeah, exactly. I can respect when an artist experiments and goes for something entirely different than expected. It won't work for everyone (like this album for me), but again, the beauty of music is that not everyone has to like the same thing, so it could definitely work for others.
I legit agree 100% that Drop the World is the only good song off the garbage album. It should’ve been stand alone single before the Carter IV came out
Totally agree. It'd definitely hit harder as a standalone single, for sure.
Alot of girls liked prom queen.
I'm happy they liked it
But Drop The World is fantastic song. Eminem killed it.
Yes, and I did say in the video and in the description that it was my favorite song on the album. One song doesn't make an entire album good, unfortunately.
not only em wen wayne killed it
@@rehmanahmed763 wayne is ass
I think this was the right decision. The auto-tune kind of fucked it all up, it was pretty much done with by 2010. Other than that, this is kind of experimentation is necessary for musicians who want to keep evolving. Look at Radiohead's KID A, an electronic album that followed what was at the time maybe the best rock album of all time and as a result were at point of being unable to evolve their rock sound. Wayne probably felt at that moment he could no longer evolve his rap sound.
I understand that, and I respect artists who experiment and don't stick with one sound. That said, as much as I can respect an experiment from afar, I don't think experimenting by itself is automatically enough for me to praise an album, because experiments can obviously go extremely wrong. Otherwise, they wouldn't be called "experiments." I'd like to believe you on the thought that Wayne didn't think he could evolve his rap sound any further, but given that he largely fell right back into the rap sound (other than random genre-bending tracks like How to Love here and there) and treated Rebirth as a one-off thing, I wouldn't be surprised if even he felt this experiment went wrong.
I was on a lil wayne nostalgic listening spree a few days ago, after I was done with TCIII, this album came up and I said "I forgot about this album, I'll give it a listen even tho I remember not liking it when I was younger", 5 songs in and all I wanted to do was rip my ears off 😆, the songs were horrible, Wayne's autotuned fucked vocals were unbearable, the instrumentals were ok but very generic, overall pretty awful experience. Ironically the only good song of this "rock" album was a rap song with Em 😂
My feelings exactly! I'm glad some others in this comment section enjoyed it, but it was the rare album that actually made me feel physical pain when listening to it (specifically hurt my ears lol). The loud, brash instrumentals and Wayne's overuse of autotune...just didn't mix for me. Wayne's autotune is usually fine, but on songs like these, it just doesn't work. And yeah, I agree, Drop The World is a good track, but it is super ironic that a rock album's best track is a rap song lol.
Can you do a review for Rustie’s Glass Swords
Probably won’t be able to do a full review of it, unfortunately. I’m sorry.
@@MattsRandomJourneys What’s hindering you from a full review?
The fact that I don’t really want to do one.
Plus I don’t tend to do full reviews of many past albums anymore (TEN YEARS LATER is now a year-end segment, not a regular segment dedicated to individual albums), and even if I did…it’s a 2011 album and the time for me to look at 2011 albums in this series has long since passed.
@@MattsRandomJourneys Oh I thought it was because of scheduling or something. I’ll probably make my own vid of it soon
Cool. Hope you enjoy making it, and I hope it turns out good.
No disrespect but that album is better than this review.
Glad you found something in the album that I didn't.
Might not be a great album but still good in my eyes. This album is impactful to the rap game in today’s day as Wayne crossed barriers and experimented that no other rappers would do during that time. So he paved the way for a lot of rappers in today’s day.
I mean hey, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I do think it was interesting to see Wayne try something that few actually made a genuine effort to do before. Most of the time, rap and rock crossovers just felt like gimmicks. If nothing else, this felt like a somewhat earnest attempt to do it (even if I didn't totally enjoy it). That style would obviously be refined with a lot of the emo rappers, but regardless, Wayne does deserve credit for paving the way, even if the album remains hated by a lot of people.
Bruh that title got me rollin 😂😂
I let my honesty get the best of me 😂😂😂 glad you got a laugh out of it though lol
This album was so good it might be Wayne's worst album but it's better than lot artists whole discographies. I enjoy drop the world, on fire, prom queen, knockout, da da da, running, paradise, one way trip, American star. Basically the whole album is a masterpiece I don't really get the hate on it
Well, in that case, I'm glad you were able to enjoy the album more than I was.
@@MattsRandomJourneys I think if you listen it more than once it might grow on you more than just first time listening.
The album made me feel physical pain listening to it multiple times for this video. I have no desire to go back to it. I'm glad you enjoyed it more than I did, but we won't all have the same opinions.
Your channel is underrated af lol why don't you have at least 1k subs
Wish I knew the answer lol. But I really appreciate that, thank you!
there was one good song on this album lol (that being knockout, loved that song when it came out)
Wasn't as crazy about Knockout, but didn't dislike it as much as some of the others on the album. I'm glad you loved it, though.
Good review dude
Thanks! Really appreciate you checking it out!
I like around 6 songs on this album. For me that carter iv was much more worse which I only liked like 2 songs.
Oh really, Tha Carter IV is worse? Hmm...I'm gonna be checking that album out for this series later this year, but I've heard wildly mixed things. Guess I'll just have to see for myself.
@@MattsRandomJourneys Still I have clocked in hundreds of hours listening to Wayne’s albums and mixtapes. For me he is still the G.O.A.T and will always be no matter how bad an album may be reviewed.
Oh yeah, for sure. I've been hard on a few of Wayne's records that I've reviewed, but I'll never deny his talent and his impact. I feel like there are so many modern rappers today that really might not be here or might not sound the same if not for Wayne paving the way for them. Sure, he has some duds, but there are plenty of rappers with discographies as inconsistent as Wayne's that are in the G.O.A.T. conversation (Eminem and Drake are two that jump to mind for me). No matter how many Wayne albums I give negative reviews to, I'll never deny that he's one of the best to do it and is one of hip-hop's most influential figures.
Carter IV was much worse? She Will, How to Hate, Megaman, 6 Foot 7 Foot, Blunt Blowin, It's Good?
Nah , carter 4 isn’t worse it’s actually really good I bought it when it came out and after hearing stuff like the drought is over 2 and a lot of leaks , I was was like is ok . But after years passed it’s really really good . I listened to rebirth again today and I enjoyed it a lot .
Coming from a Wayne fan, yeah this album was awful.
Rebirth was one of his greatest albums. This why he Misunderstood smh.
I don't think an artist who is considered one of the greatest rappers of all time is necessarily "misunderstood," but regardless, that's just your opinion. If you like it, great, but that doesn't mean others will, or that their opinions are invalid.
Only two good songs on here are drop the world and knockout the hook on there is just a ear worm
Yeah. “Drop The World” is the one I can definitely still go back to and enjoy.
Might not be a great album but still went Platinum
I mean, that doesn’t surprise me. Critical and commercial success are not mutually exclusive: there are albums people love that have struggled to sell, while there are hated albums that have sold like hotcakes. The way of the music world. Also helps that Lil Wayne was at a huge high point in his career at the time, coming off of Tha Carter III and No Ceilings, so there was obviously gonna be huge interest in his next project.
@@MattsRandomJourneys I do agree he was the top rapper at that time meaning the album had a lot of hype surrounding it and therefore he would get a lot of views but for being his worst album in terms of ratings and still going platinum is pretty great in my eyes. I see it as his worst album but I don’t think he shouldn’t get much hate as no other rappers at that time were bold enough to do what he did. The album went platinum in 2020 so it sure took a long time.
Yeah, that's true. I didn't think of it like that, but sometimes, you expect when an artist releases an album that gets waves of hate from the entire music world that it will just fade out commercially, even if the artist is loved. I didn't know it took until 2020 for it to go Platinum, but when you say it like that...yeah, that is even more impressive given the context.
You can't hate on 'on fire' smh
I believe the word is "criticize," not "hate on." You'd think people would stop making that mistake.
And yes, I can. If I dislike it, I'm well within my right to criticize it. Whether you can handle that criticism or not is not exactly my concern.
@@MattsRandomJourneys now you're making yourself more important than you are. a trait many critics have.
come off your horse. I just don't agree with you. Thats all.
In what way am I making myself "more important" than anyone? I'm not. You claim that I'm "hating on" a song on this album (a tactic many people who can't handle criticism cling to), when all I did was criticize it. Further, you also claim that I "can't" dislike it, as if to say I'm not allowed to have my opinion on it.
As far as I'm aware, you began the conversation with your comment, and all I did was reply. It appeared to me you couldn't handle my criticism, so I pointed that out. I'm just one dude online with an opinion; if you rock with the song, keep rocking with it and don't let my opinion deter you. You can have that opinion just as I can have mine.
@@MattsRandomJourneys by making an elephant out of a peanut. Don't take everything so seriously. Just a guy that doesn't agree with you.
Nice comparison, I'll say. Never heard that one but I respect it.
You're free to disagree, but don't be surprised if you get the response that you get if your "disagreeing" sounds like an inability to handle criticism, as yours did. I'll also once again stress that you started the conversation, and all I did was reply. I didn't take it any more seriously than I'd take any similar interaction; I just gave my response.
Rebirth trash 🗑 album
Yeah, it’s really bad.
I love this album anyone who didn't like it is looking for Rap Wayne there's different forms of every superstar Pop Drake Pop Nicki Rock Wayne
Or...anyone who didn't like this album has an opinion and didn't like the "rock Wayne" direction?
@@MattsRandomJourneys it's not a bad album f*** your feelings
I'm only just seeing this comment because UA-cam marked it as spam for some reason, but that's a funny way of saying that you can't accept an opinion that's different from yours.
Nothing about my opinion or your opinion is "fact." You can say "it's not a bad album," but that's not fact; that's just your opinion. People are allowed to dislike things. It's better to accept the opinions of others instead of trolling or getting angry just because they don't share the same opinion as you. You're free to enjoy the album, and that's great that you did. I'm also free to dislike the album. The world is not a hive mind where everyone agrees on everything. Reviews don't exist merely to justify your opinion, and if you can't accept that, you should probably just stop watching them.
@@MattsRandomJourneys I'm just joking man I just appreciate you aknowledging The Rebirth you're entitled to your opinion
Thank you