Hip Hop/R&B stars Lil Wayne & Jermaine Dupri appear on Weezer’s new album Raditude which is due out on November 3.

This is what Rivers Cuomo said about the collaborations and the direction Weezer is taking on their new album:

Weezer is always trying something new. 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. 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.