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.
Across the hour, Funeral sounds less like last rites for Wayne and more like a resurrection.
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.
The problem with ‘Funeral’ is that there’s no real thread holding the music together.
Funeral proves that Wayne's quick-witted rapping might be the only quality keeping his music enjoyable in today's hip-hop scene.
‘Funeral’ is a mixed bag, and feels more like 24 tracks Lil Wayne had lying around than a coherent project.
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.
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.
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.
Funeral is wildly uneven, a landscape of pronounced highs and lows.
Not living up to its somber title and introduction, Funeral is another unfocused and bloated album from Lil Wayne.
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
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
Weezys most recent album has no life on it like his previous albums did, most know him for fun raps, and incredible freestyling, but this is just a bloated boring album with a few standouts, with 2 of them right in the beginning (Mahogany and Mama Mia.)
1 | Funeral 3:14 | 67 |
2 | Mahogany 2:57 | 79 |
3 | Mama Mia 3:45 | 74 |
4 | I Do It 3:04 | 66 |
5 | Dreams 3:47 | 63 |
6 | Stop Playin With Me 3:07 | 55 |
7 | Clap For Em 2:30 | 48 |
8 | Bing James 3:23 feat. Jay Rock | 67 |
9 | Not Me 3:19 | 56 |
10 | Trust Nobody 2:48 feat. Adam Levine | 46 |
11 | Know You Know 2:44 feat. 2 Chainz | 58 |
12 | Wild Dogs 3:36 | 56 |
13 | Harden 3:02 | 75 |
14 | I Don't Sleep 3:20 feat. Takeoff | 64 |
15 | Sights and Silencers 3:22 feat. The-Dream | 50 |
16 | Ball Hard 2:58 feat. Lil Twist | 55 |
17 | Bastard (Satan's Kid) 3:12 | 57 |
18 | Get Outta My Head 2:58 feat. XXXTENTACION | 31 |
19 | Piano Trap 3:14 | 77 |
20 | Line Em Up 2:59 | 55 |
21 | Darkside 2:19 | 53 |
22 | Never Mind 3:33 | 40 |
23 | T.O. 3:08 feat. O.T. Genasis | 57 |
24 | Wayne's World 3:45 | 59 |
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