Hmm Weezer & Lil Wayne Recording Together?

After the late 90s fad of rap/rock groups that annoyed just about everyone, I think it's safe to say music fans are still a little skeptical of what happens when the genres decide to collaborate. The latest oddball couple ready to mash-up styles are Weezer and Lil Wayne, who have both accumiliated a bit of goodwill in their respective genres. Here's what Rivers Cuomo told MTV News:

"Weezer is always trying something new," Cuomo told MTV News. "Last year, we put out 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&B, I wrote a song with him called 'Can't Stop Partying.' It was a real challenge for me, taking his ideas, which are very slick, R&B party [ideas], and giving it some kind of edge, some darkness, making it work with rock, making it work with Weezer.

"Not only that, but we got Lil Wayne to come in and do a rap on it," he continued. "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."

I'm a fan of everyone involved in this but my hopes aren't too high that the end product will be worthwhile. If the track receives good reception from music fans, maybe Universal will finally put out that Lil Wayne "rock" album that has been delayed a half dozen times over the course of the last 11 months?