Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt, and this is Rolling Stone Music Now.

As promised, I wanted to talk about the second half of Andy Green's list of genuinely horrible albums by great artists. I have Andy with me again and this

list has been turning me upside down. I'm now starting to question the very concept of terrible

albums. I guess what's funny is maybe you can get sick of the

cannon so there's something pretty fun about digging through these albums that

are supposedly horrible and finding things that are good on them and then arguing

with you about it.

And the broad point is these are their worst albums, even if there's great moments on them,

that these are real outliers in their catalog as far as quality in my opinion.

Absolutely and number 24 which is where we're picking up I encourage everyone to go back and

listen to number 50 through 25 which we did last week.

But number 24 is Lil Wayne's rebirth from 2010.

This is infamously little Wayne's quote unquote rock album.

And who could blame any rapper for wanting to do a rock album

especially after he's well after the heyday of rap rock but if rock bands could

put a guy like Fred Durst or even Zach de Lleroca from Rage Against Machine who's a great vocalist is like a quasi-rapper really he's not someone who would have been famous as a rapper he's a vocalist he does a thing that's very specific so if

These bands had people who weren't great rappers per se and became so big if you are one of the greatest rappers ever it is very tempting to try why can't I do rap rock I'm a rapper so there is a logic to it right?

I see the logic it's just not what he's good at it's not what his

fans want in 2010 Brock was not in a very good place at all it was just a baffling move because this was pretty near the pinnacle of his career

as a hitmaker and to make a change this sudden

was jarring for a lot of his audience I think.

What a lot of reviewers picked up on is he seemed to have a very vague idea of what rock would entail,

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