Jon Batiste Got Lil Wayne to Pick Up His Guitar Again
Jon Batiste’s Collaboration: Lil Wayne Returns to the Guitar
Lil Wayne revealed earlier this year that he couldn’t pick his hitmaking album Tha Carter III out of a lineup. “I believe that [God] blessed me with this amazing mind, but would not give [me] an amazing memory to remember this amazing shit,” he told Rolling Stone. One thing Wayne does remember, though: how to play guitar. Weezy picked up the axe over a decade ago, first as a trick during his live shows, and then to pivot to rock for his 2010 album Rebirth. Now, he’s back to rip a solo for his fellow Louisianan Jon Batiste, on “Uneasy,” off Batiste’s new album, World Music Radio. It’s only a simple, 30-second ditty, coming in the middle of a John Legend–y interlude toward the end of the song. Still, we’d say Wayne has a better chance of remembering that than the verse he dropped here.