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).
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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.”
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“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:
