Two days after his show-stopping Grammy performance next to Eminem, Drake and Travis Barker, Lil Wayne released the most anticipated album of the past two years. Sadly, the album doesn’t live up to expectations.

Lil Wayne promised “Rebirth” would cross the line dividing rap and rock. The album fails to follow through on its promises of hybridization and instead leaves many fans questioning the direction of the rap mogul’s music.

“Rebirth” overshoots the rap-rock fusion by traveling too far down the rock spectrum, while forgetting to maintain the rap elements. Lil Wayne makes a stab at progressive rock and buys into the notion that the more instrumentation on a track, the better.

“Knockout” starts the album with a traditional pop-rock summer anthem, but switches gears once the vocals kick in and the cursing runs rampant. Nicki Minaj, the featured artist on the track, sounds like Miley Cyrus when she doesn’t have to pay a quarter to the swear jar. Cursing is to be expected in rap music, but Minaj is overindulgent. The instrumentals tell one story while the lyrics tell another, but the two fail to mesh and form a cohesive thought.

“The Price is Wrong” is possibly the farthest Lil Wayne could get from his traditional style. Guitars screech while Wayne rages over the microphone, demanding restitution for lost love. This song epitomizes Lil Wayne’s failure to conjoin the rap and rock genres, as not a single rap element can be found.

It’s usually healthy for artists to experiment with other influences, but Lil Wayne exceeded the point of experimentation and went for reinvention. “Rebirth” will have Lil Wayne traditionalists longing for beats reminiscent of 2008’s “Tha Carter III.” Until then, DJs will be hard at work trying to make this album club friendly.