Weezer team up with Lil Wayne on new LP

Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo has confirmed that Lil Wayne will appear on the band's forthcoming new album Raditude.

The singer-guitarist told MTV News that he enlisted the 'Lollipop' rapper in order to give one particular song an "edge".

"We got Lil Wayne to come in and do a rap on it," he explained. "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."

Cuomo went on to say that the star's cameo was part of a wider attempt to do something "different" after their last album, 2008's 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'n'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'n'B party, and giving it some kind of edge, some darkness, making it work with rock, making it work with Weezer."

Raditude is due for release on October 26.