Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo has confirmed that Lil Wayne will appear on the band's forthcoming new album Raditude.
The singer-guitarist told MTV News that he enlisted the 'Lollipop' rapper in order to give one particular song an "edge".
"We got Lil Wayne to come in and do a rap on it," he explained. "Any other rapper would've just done, 'Yay, we're partying! Let's drink and have fun', but he gave it the edge I was looking for.
"You can hear in his voice, it sounds so dark, like he was gonna get shot or something when he walks out of the studio. So I was real happy that everyone involved got what we were going for."
Cuomo went on to say that the star's cameo was part of a wider attempt to do something "different" after their last album, 2008's The Red Album.
"We loved that album, but this is 2009. It's time to do something totally different. So I reached out to some friends of mine in different genres: Jermaine Dupri, for example, king of R'n'B, I wrote a song with him called 'Can't Stop Partying'.
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Raditude is due for release on October 26.
