He wanted me to play the guitar on stage with him on ‘Sweet Home Alabama’… I didn’t practice or nothin’, he was like, ‘We’re just playin’ ‘Sweet Home Alabama,’ I’m sure you know that.'” Listen, the story gets better… I had my guitar, I was gonna play the guitar. I was like, ‘What are we doin’?’ They’re like, ‘We’re playin’ ‘Sweet Home Alabama.’ They were like, ‘I know you know that, right?’ That’s when I showed up… the curtains were about to go up. They weren’t in their dressing rooms, they was behind the curtains. I showed up five minutes… I’m gonna tell you exactly how soon it was when I showed up. I did the Country Music Awards with him before. “I got a real funny story about Kid Rock.
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Well, Lil Wayne didn’t, I guess, because he told fellow rapper 2 Chainz the hilarious story in a video a few years back, saying that he really didn’t even know how to play guitar at all: Mainly because it heavily sampled chords from the Lynyrd Skynyrd classic “Sweet Home Alabama,” and who doesn’t know that, right? The tune was released in 2008 as the third single from Kid Rock’s 2007 seventh studio album, Rock n Roll Jesus, and I guess Kid Rock just assumed Wayne knew the track and could play it on guitar.
The only problem was, Lil Wayne got there maybe five minutes before they were scheduled to perform, and didn’t have any time to practice or actually learn the song.
And yes, that is a very real headline, and this whole story actually happened.īack in 2008, hip-hop and rap star Lil Wayne was scheduled to hit the stage with the one and only Kid Rock to play guitar at the CMA Awards during a performance of his smash hit “All Summer Long.”