Lil Wayne had been promising fans an album with a rockier edge to it for while, so the leak of forthcoming “Prom Queen” came as a surprise to everyone, including producers Infamous and Drew Correa, when he did just that.

“Prom Queen” is taken from upcoming LP “Rebirth”, and is expected to be released on April 7th 2009.

“There were rumors Wayne was working on a rock album, but I assumed it was just [electronic] 808 drums with guitars on it,” Infamous told Billboard.com ”But that night when we worked on the track, Wayne said he wanted lots of drums, bass and guitars. Drew started to add organs, and [Wayne] said no. That’s when I realized it was actually going to be a real rock album.”

Producer Correa added ”When the track came together the next morning everyone thought it was the shit and [Wayne] told us it would be a single… we thought he was joking. We thought he was just saying that to be nice. But a couple of days later we were signing paperwork and it was actually happening.”

Despite their initial doubts, Infamous and Correa went on to produce three of the tracks on “Rebirth”.

“He’s done everything he can with hip-hop and has proven himself,” added Infamous “Now he’s about to prove himself as a rocker and we’re excited to be a part of it.”

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