A Deranged-Looking Lil Wayne Performs "Dreams" With The Roots On 'Fallon': Watch

Lil Wayne wore the following things when he was the musical guest on The Tonight Show last night: A red beret with spikes sticking out it, a giant fur coat with some kind skatepunk-looking logo across the back, huge black sunglasses, and what appeared to be a white-and-plaid dress. He wore this dress — and it really is a dress, not just a long T-shirt or whatever — over jeans and sneakers. His dreads are blonde now. He has even more tattoos on his face. He looks crazy. Honestly, Lil Wayne’s walking-around look is now more outlandish than the robot costume that he wore on The Masked Singer earlier this week.

Wayne, course, just released the new album Funeral, which — at least in its best moments — returns Wayne to the sputtering absurdity that he perfected back in his mixtape era. On Fallon, Wayne performed the Funeral dirge “Dreams,” a song where Wayne imagines how his life would’ve been if he hadn’t made it to rap stardom and also meditates on his own drug intake. It’s not one the better Funeral songs, but Wayne is such a strange and absorbing presence that he’s worth watching anyway.

Wayne did the song with Fallon’s house band the Roots, which mostly make me wish we could’ve heard what Wayne and the Roots could’ve done together in like 2005. He also had fingersnapping backup singers. It’s quite a spectacle. Watch it below.

Funeral is out now on Young Money.