Hello and welcome back to another edition of Broken Records, the podcast that searches far and wide for the very worst album of all time. Today Steve and Remfry are talking about Lil Wayne’s The Rebirth, the 7th studio album from the New Orleans rapper, released on the 2nd of February 2010.

We can’t pretend that either of us are massive fans of Lil Wayne… or small fans… or fans. But there’s no doubt that he’s a pretty significant artist in the hip-hop world. By the year 2008 he was a legit superstar in fact, with his The Carter trilogy seeing him lauded all over the place and the third installment picking up the Best Rap Album Grammy. Not bad. He was restless though, and decided that, rather than go into the studio and give his fans The Carter IV, he would do a rock album. Rap and rock have always proved to be challenging bedfellows, for every Rage Against The Machine there is about 50 Vanilla Ice’s, Methods of Mayhem or whatever other cack we still have left in the hat. But, surely, a rapper of Weezy’s stature could put together a band with the chops to provide the killer backing to his unique and idiosyncratic drawl couldn’t he? You’d think, right… but alas no. The Rebirth is instead a confusing, often troubling and often hilarious mess of autotune mixed with paper thin pop punk and generic sleaze rock guitar that is hard, maybe impossible, to enjoy.

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