By Chris Kenner
Staff Writer, ‘11

Hip-hop’s Lil’ Wayne is attempting to voyage into the world of rock and roll. Wayne, who is literally on top of the Hip-hop world right now, is working on a “rock” album entitled “Rebirth” set to release later this year. Promotional images and videos of Wayne playing guitar are all over the net to promote the career move.
One question screams at me as I am writing this, “Why the hell would someone who is on top of the Hip-hop world want to record a rock album?” There are three possible answers to this question: 1. He is a rocker at heart and feels it is time to show the world who he really is. 2. He has stumbled on to the secret of selling music and is attempting to conquer another genre. 3. He is crazy! While I know that most people reading this are vying for answer three, as I was at first, the actual answer is number two. Somehow during his substance fueled recordings and freestyles he stumbled on to the secret of selling music. The sad truth is that America has degenerated into a country where the majority of the people have minimal attention spans and because of their minimal attention spans they will gladly spend their money on anything with a catchy hook. Their money is spent without regard to the actual musical talent used to create the song. Evidence of this occurrence can be found in the incoherent ramblings that make up his songs; though many of them do not make any sense they remain on the top of the charts.
Due to America’s current degeneration, the secret to selling music is no more than a catchy hook. Though most Americans will notice the incoherent rambling in a Lil’ Wayne song, they will not criticize it because they forget all about it when they hear the hook. Lil’ Wayne has stumbled on to this secret and it has allowed him to conquer the Hip-hop world. There is one problem; there is nothing else left for him to do in that genre of music.
Now that he has conquered the world of Hip-hop, he has his sights set on the realm of rock. He released the song “Prom Queen” on January 28, 2009, and his fans are eating it up. Before I wrote this I took the time out to listen to the song, and naturally it’s horrible. The best part of the song is the opening riff, which would be suitable on any alternative rock song. It all goes horribly wrong from there, the vocals sound just like the vocals on any of his rap songs with a little auto tune, and he begins singing about panties. Yes panties. This song is annoyingly repetitive and somewhat of a spit in the face of rock fans everywhere. It is evident that with the release of this song, he believes that rockers are part of this group of Americans with deteriorating attention spans. Personally I can say that I have a short attention span, it’s just one of the side-effects of being American in this day and age, but I can also say that it will never come to the point when I stop appreciating good music and begin to take in something like “Prom Queen.”
This song is so atrocious that it makes me want to stay inside for the rest of my life. I wrote this to alert everyone about what is being attempted by someone who feels they have the music business figured out and is manipulating it. In short Lil’ Wayne is attempting to manipulate real music fans to make himself richer, and we can’t allow this to happen. My advice to you is to listen to the song and spread the word about how horrible it is. We have to save music fans everywhere from being manipulated by this man. More importantly we have to save rock and roll, the staple of American music everywhere.