Lil Wayne and 2 Chainz have returned with their new album Welcome 2 ColleGrove, and it contains a song paying homage to the legendary Wu-Tang Clan.
Featuring driving production that sprinkles some Southern-fried flavor into RZA’s sonic blueprint, “Shame” features a prominent sample of Ol’ Dirty Bastard‘s voice and interpolates his hook from “Shame On a N-gga,” off the Wu’s 1993 debut album Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers).
Tity Boi and Tunechi take turns on the mic and each drop Wu-Tang references, comparing themselves to the dynamic duo of Raekwon and Ghostface Killah.
“2 Chainz and Wayne like Rae and Ghost,” the Atlanta native spits, while his New Orleans counterpart raps: “Wayne and 2 Chainz goin’ Wu-Tang on you,” later adding: “Chainz and Wayne, n-gga, we like Chef and Ghost.”
“Shame” has another ’90s NYC Hip Hop connection as Mobb Deep‘s Havoc produced it.
Listen to the track below:
Welcome 2 ColleGrove arrived on Friday (November 17). There are plenty of familiar faces on the 21-track effort, including Rick Ross, 21 Savage, Usher, Benny The Butcher, Fabolous, Vory and Marsha Ambrosius.
On the production side, beats come from heavy-hitters like Mannie Fresh, Juicy J, Mike Dean, Murda Beatz, DJ Toomp, Bangladesh, Big K.R.I.T. and StreetRunner.
The album plays out like a cinematic, narrative-driven listening experience and is broken up into five “scenes,” with 50 Cent narrating each interlude.
Welcome 2 ColleGrove serves as the follow-up to Lil Wayne and 2 Chainz’s first full-length collaboration, 2016’s ColleGrove.
Listen to the album in full below:
These dudes need to do a full movie together.
These two dudes need to do a full movie together. All for entertainment. And add more rappers.
Needs a remix with the real deal on it
this shit dope!
Fire!!! Them boys got bars on this one!
Candidate for album of the year! Lol
Fuck NO you fools ain’t like Rae & Ghost more like Dumb and Dumber you lame ass toys
Low key Wayne been really reopen real hip hop for a few years now going toe to toe with Ny spitters
I’m from the Bronx NY and must say the southern rappers has come a long way.They’ve shown more lyrical and musical growth than New York rappers and even West Coast rappers if I can add. The regions are stuck in the past. We went from Hot Boys type of lyrics to what we here on the song “Shame”. I’m sorry but that’s growth and even to pay homage to a group like Wu-Tang. Any real Hip-Hop head should be proud. Just like the life cycle, the parents die and the child grows up. The parents being NY hip-hop and the child being southern rap. It cannot be debated,check the numbers.
Close but no cigar….Wu Tang4ever…
Dick Riders! Lil Wayne is one of the most overrated rappers of all time. Drake and Lil Wayne are a perfect lil couple but who is the man in this relationship?
$W@GÖ_44 here Chin-X-Pluto the GOAT tattooed and all was some of the first raps I’ve ever done and even have a cassette made as well as a CD made but most songs lyrics I have where wrote and recorded icebox studio brrrrr. It’s fucking cold lol! 💯
Garrett T. O’Hanlon
$W@GÖ_44 here
Chin-X-Pluto the GOAT tattooed and all was some of the first raps I’ve ever done and even have a cassette made as well as a CD made but most songs lyrics I have where wrote and recorded icebox studio brrrrr. It’s fucking cold lol! 💯
Garrett T. O’Hanlon
$W@GÖ_44 here
Chin-X-Pluto the GOAT tattooed and all was some of the first raps I’ve ever done and even have a cassette made as well as a CD made but most songs lyrics I have where wrote and recorded icebox studio brrrrr. It’s fucking cold lol! 💯
Garrett T. O’Hanlon