Lil Wayne has joined fellow New Orleans native Big Freedia on wax alongside Boyfriend on the Bounce Queen’s new single, “El Niño.”
Released on Tuesday (June 20), the song is about “going hard in any storms that come in your life and conquering them,” Big Freedia said in a press release. “It’s one of my favorite songs on this record, it features my longtime collaborator Boyfriend, and it’s also my first collab with Lil Wayne, who I’ve wanted to work with for a long time. We put it down for our city, and this song is gonna have everyone blowin down!”
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The track will live on Big Freedia’s forthcoming album Central City, which arrives on Friday (June 23).
Tune in to “El Niño” below.
Central City will serve as Freedia’s sophomore album. The 16-track LP will also include features from Faith Evans, Ciara, Kelly Price, Kamaiyah, Sonyae and The Soul Rebels.
In other Lil Wayne news, his beloved 2006 mixtapeDedication 2 is finally coming to digital streaming platforms later this year, and it’ll include new music as a bonus treat for fans.
DJ Drama announced the news during an interview with the Rap Radar Podcast in March. According to him, Dedication 2‘s bevy of samples and borrowed music has made it difficult to get the project cleared, but he promised it will be available on major platforms in 2023.
“It wasn’t original music, so it couldn’t go on streaming platforms, and I just feel like today, in 2023, if we going to do it, let’s do it, and it might take a little bit of time and be done,” Drama said.
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“We are dropping Dedication 2 on streaming platforms this year, and it’s gonna have some new music along with it. That’s pretty exciting.”
Dedication 2 was released in May 2006 and remains one of the most acclaimed entries in DJ Drama’s legendary Gangsta Grillz mixtape series.
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The 25-track offering found Lil Wayne tearing through beats like 2Pac’s “Ambitionz Az a Ridah,” Rick Ross’ “Hustlin’” and Three 6 Mafia’s “Poppin’ My Collar” alongside features from T.I., Juelz Santana, Pharrell, Curren$y and more. It was one of the first mixtapes to be financially successful thanks to it being sold on iTunes and at retail stores, and even cracked the Billboard charts.
