Lil Wayne’s Rebirth Due Out December 15

After months of delays and rescheduled street dates, Lil Wayne’s new album, Rebirth, finally has an official street date. According to Billboard.com, the disc long rumored to be Wayne’s “rock” album will drop on December 15.

The album will come on the heels of his just-released No Ceilings mixtape. And while there has been some confusion about just how much actual rocking Wayne will do on it— he does appear on the new Weezer album — the rapper recently told Billboard that he does indeed bang his head on Rebirth.

“Yes, the album is still rock,” he said. “I play guitar on 80 percent 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.

“When I said I was doing a rock album, it was about doing a freedom thing,” he continued. “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.”

Wayne has suggested that he might release Rebirth and the Young Money crew album as a double disc. Because a few of the songs from Wayne’s album have leaked online during the past few months, he said he went back to the lab to cook up some new songs to throw off fans who thought they knew what he was up to.

“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,” he said. “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.”

Seriously though Lil Wayne…..lets just get this album out already!

Leighton Meester’s Surprise Performance With Weezer

Gossip Girl’s Leighton Meester is slowly making a name for herself in the music business after recording ‘Good Girls Go Bad’ with Cobra Starship and recently releasing her first single ‘Somebody To Love’ featuring Robin Thicke.

Leighton joined Weezer on stage this weekend during their show at the Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC on Hallowen night.

She performed with frontman Rivers Cuomo on Weezer’s new single ‘(If You’re Wondering if I Want You To) I Want You To.’

Thoughts?

Katy Perry To Collaborate With Weezer

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Rivers Cuomo of Weezer has revealed that he will be working with Katy Perry on her next album saying that they will be “writing together next week. Can’t wait.”

Katy has just headed back in the studio this week to start working on the new album which she has said is going to be very different from her smash record One of the Boys.

“I’m kind of thinking I want to do my record like a mesh between ‘Lovefool’ by the Cardigans and ['The Sign'] by Ace of Base. I want to make songs that people want to hold hands and roller-skate to.

I’m not looking to alienate my fans, but I can’t be that grown-up Shirley Temple girl wearing the stupid strawberry in her hair all the time…because I’d kill myself or someone else would for me. So I’m really excited to always be evolving and changing — with my look, with my music, it keeps me entertained as well.”