That’s a good analogy for the record as a whole.' Culture Bully called it the worst track of the album, along with 'The Price is Wrong', and added ''Knockout' stands as one of the best examples as to why vocoderized pop punk should not exist.' AllHipHop stated that the song 'possesses a fair balance of rock influenced music, but not offensive to his core base.' Consequence of Sound commented that Minaj did a passable job and called the song a 'tween rock anthem'. Behind the Hype gave the song a negative review, stating ' 'Knockout' sounds like it's set to an old Blink-182 drumbeat and guitar riff, but without any of the fun.

The song isn’t amazing, but Lil Wayne and pop-punk isn’t a combo I would have thought to work at all.The song received generally negative reviews by critics. “Knock Out” does feature rapping, but not from Wayne, but Nicki Minaj’s aggressive verse, which fits more with the Nicki of the early Nicki Minaj on Da Drought 3’s “ Don’t Stop Won’t Stop”, rather than her more pop-oriented work.īut overall the song works not because of their lyrics but for the early 2000 pop-punk inspired sound which works excellently with Minaj’s rapping and doesn’t clash too terribly with Wayne’s singing. If Rockstar Wayne is going to make an album, he might as well always stay in his rockstar pose. There is some straight forward rapping on Rebirth like “ Drop the World”, but that stuff is worse than Lil Wayne’s auto-tuned singing, or at least here it just really isn’t necessary. I’m not going to run with the America theme today, but if gross excesses and misappropriating things is the lifeblood of the United States, then “Prom Queen” should be the song playing for the United States during the Olympics. But Lil Wayne in full rockstar mode is more than enough to sell awful songs like “ Prom Queen” and “ Get A Life”, which would be unlistenable if they were done by anyone else (save maybe Prince).

That a rapper from New Orleans can release an album full of sub-Korn rock songs and still managed to go Gold in 2009? Amazing. I’d like to think this is the album that sets a shining example of all that is great about America. But that would be too boring of a statement.

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