Lil Wayne released Tha Carter IV last year to rank reviews across the board, but despite the sage advice mixed with street cred of online critics, Weezy has yet to show signs of giving a single F. Baby. In an interview with MTV’s Hip Hop POV, Wayne revealed that he’s past the point of no return on a new album called Devo Devol, which is pronounced “devil” and is “Loved” spelled backwards.
The concept of the album is his “version” of love songs. Sez Wayne: “What I mean by my version of love songs is meaning they’re not saying, ‘I love you.’ It’s all material I did when I was locked up.” Obviously the album has no release date yet, or any other solid information, but the project is underway and thus will be released eventually, regardless of the finished product. Critics might be rolling their eyes at the idea of a concept album after the junky rock project Rebirth (and the concept of a legitimate sequel to Tha Carter III), but honestly there’d be more cause for worry if there was no idea behind the grouping of songs at all, à la I Am Not a Human Being — an album literally no one even remembered came out until I just typed its title.
Oh, and FACT points out that a sequel to I Am Not a Human Being is in the pipeline for 2012, too. I’m outta here.
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