2
Chainz and Lil
Wayne join forces on
'Collegrove,' but
just barely
As the final **tes of the last song on
Collegrove fade away, you’re left with a poignant*image of 2
Chainz standing alone in the studio, forlornly looking around for Lil Wayne, his idol and touted collaborator on the album. Weezy never shows, leaving him with a sad puppy dog expression on his face that plays against the*eerie, stripped-down pia** **tes disappearing into the background silence.
This is a feeling you’ll have a lot when you listen to
Collegrove
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It’s a project that suggests a full-on meeting of minds in the manner of Drake and*Future’s recent
What A Time To Be Alive. After all, the title comes from a mash-up of 2*Chainz and Weezy’s respective home neighborhoods of College Park in Georgia and*Hollygrove in Louisiana, while the album art superimposes Tunechi’s tattoos onto 2*Chainz’s face (in a manner that ends up curiously resembling Mos Def’s
Black On Both*Sides cover).*
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