"Island Holiday" | |
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Song by Lil Wayne | |
from the album Tha Carter VI | |
Released | June 6, 2025 |
Length | 4:17 |
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"Island Holiday" is a song by American rapper Lil Wayne. It was released on June 6, 2025, as the tenth track from his fourteenth studio album Tha Carter VI . Produced by Wayne, Manny G, and Julian Munro, the song samples Weezer's 2001 song "Island in the Sun".
Lil Wayne and Weezer previously collaborated on the song "Can't Stop Partying", which appeared on Weezer's seventh studio album Raditude (2009). [1] [2] [3] [4]
"Island Holiday" received mostly negative reviews from music critics. Mosi Reeves of Rolling Stone called the song "otherwise awful". [5] Jack Butler-Terry of Stereoboard called the song a "weak, dated attempt to bother the charts via a sample of Weezer's Island In The Sun". [6] Hip Hop Golden Age called the song a "jarring misstep, blending saccharine Auto-Tune with a beachy pop-rock guitar riff that sounds like a rejected Rebirth outtake". [7] Paul Thompson of Pitchfork wrote, "It is all but impossible to imagine a song like "Island Vacation" becoming a crossover hit, and all but impossible to imagine Wayne would make it for any other reason". [8]
In a ranking of the album's nineteen songs, Billboard 's Michael Saponara placed it at number thirteen. He penned, "Parts of the track seem to work, but others just feel like Wayne's lost on the island he's rapping about". [9]
Chart (2025) | Peak position |
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US Bubbling Under Hot 100 ( Billboard ) [10] | 5 |
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs ( Billboard ) [11] | 27 |