Funeral

Lil Wayne - Funeral
Critic Score
Based on 11 reviews
2020 Ratings: #845 / 871
User Score
Based on 844 ratings
2020 Rank: #1009
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CRITIC REVIEWS

80
The Young Folks

While Wayne is famously known for grandfathering many of rap’s modern aesthetics, Funeral is just another example of how much better he is than his contemporaries at executing them.

73
Pitchfork

Across the hour, Funeral sounds less like last rites for Wayne and more like a resurrection.

67
Consequence of Sound

For his new decade debut, Wayne takes a “throw everything at the wall and see what sticks” approach, only hitting the target about half the time.

60
NME

The problem with ‘Funeral’ is that there’s no real thread holding the music together.

60
Exclaim!

Funeral proves that Wayne's quick-witted rapping might be the only quality keeping his music enjoyable in today's hip-hop scene.

60
Clash

‘Funeral’ is a mixed bag, and feels more like 24 tracks Lil Wayne had lying around than a coherent project.

60
The Observer

Wayne’s unheralded 13th studio album proves that the 37-year-old’s flow can still be fearsome, even if his edit function remains iffy.

58
HipHopDX

As for the actual listenability of this album, there isn’t much that will live in the hearts and minds of those who are brand loyal to Weezy F. Baby.

50
AllMusic

Cobbled together in the style of a compilation rather than a cohesive album, it's a wonky, slightly disappointing collection that ranges from typically excellent updates on the classic Weezy sound to tracks that weakly chase trends as it provides diamonds and duds in equal measure.

50
Rolling Stone

Funeral is wildly uneven, a landscape of pronounced highs and lows.

40
The Needle Drop

Not living up to its somber title and introduction, Funeral is another unfocused and bloated album from Lil Wayne.

_zeltrxn17
45

Lil Wayne's Funeral. His first move since his pretty admirable, but slightly bloated back to form C5. But still, I couldn't help but stay skeptical about this one. 24 tracks? Lil Baby? Big Sean? The tracklist isn't the best looking.

Thr first track sets the tone, pretty much similar to what you would expect from an album called Funeral: pretty majestic and haunting. Many tracks carry that tone actually. The intro track would've been much better if Wayne's unenthusiastic singing didn't go on ... read more

reaIreaIweaseI
40

Funeral.

A year and a half after the massively successful Carter V came Funeral, a record that appeared to be Wayne's last, with Funeral's cryptic title, spooky cover, and the dark themes of mortality and death that are somewhat explored on the title track. But right after, with the track Mahogany (a track that does have quite a good instrumental and a decent chorus from Wayne), Wayne leaves the potential interesting themes set up on the intro for, y'know, trap stuff. Money. Power. Prestige. ... read more

Sagittarius
40

This album should be funeral for lil wayne

(Because it is bad)

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Track List

1Funeral
3:14
67
2Mahogany
2:57
79
3Mama Mia
3:45
73
4I Do It
3:04
66
5Dreams
3:47
63
6Stop Playin With Me
3:07
55
7Clap For Em
2:30
48
8Bing James
3:23
feat. Jay Rock
65
9Not Me
3:19
56
10Trust Nobody
2:48
47
11Know You Know
2:44
feat. 2 Chainz
57
12Wild Dogs
3:36
56
13Harden
3:02
75
14I Don't Sleep
3:20
feat. Takeoff
63
15Sights and Silencers
3:22
feat. The-Dream
51
16Ball Hard
2:58
feat. Lil Twist
55
17Bastard (Satan's Kid)
3:12
56
18Get Outta My Head
2:58
33
19Piano Trap
3:14
76
20Line Em Up
2:59
54
21Darkside
2:19
52
22Never Mind
3:33
41
23T.O.
3:08
56
24Wayne's World
3:45
58
Total Length: 1 hour, 16 minutes

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Added on: January 23, 2020