Overused comments including, but not limited to "this ain't it, chief", "Russ takes an L", "did you hear sumn", "youweird", "quack", "Does it look like I got left off Bad & Boujee?", "delete this, nephew", "dings in the whip", "fire", "we really out there" & "hoovaq" and any derivitives thereof are not allowed.
On first listen, Funeral is a numb and overlong but still impressive rap album. (Remember Lil Twist? I was not ready to read the words “Lil Twist” this morning, but here we are.) Producers like Murda Beatz, Mike Will Made-It, and Wayne’s old collaborator Mannie Fresh make contributions. The album still features plenty of guest stars, including 2 Chainz, Lil Baby, Big Sean, Adam Levine, Jay Rock, The-Dream, OT Genasis, the late XXXTentacion, and Wayne’s old Young Money protege Lil Twist. ( Pitchfork reports that the 24 seconds of silence after “Bing James” aren’t a mastering mistake they’re a moment of silence in honor of the late Kobe Bryant.) There are a few weirdly long stretches of silence on the album, which suggests that it was put together in a hurry. Funeral has 24 songs, and it runs 76 minutes.
So the album arrived in full this morning. Wayne did not release any advance singles from Funeral, and he didn’t reveal any info about the album beyond its release date and it cover art, which reads “Lil Wayne” when you flip it upside down. And it’s the first album that Wayne has made since he fully escape the legal drama with Cash Money, his old label, that led to a years-long delay in the release of his triumphant 2018 commercial comeback Tha Carter V. Wayne’s Funeral is his 13th official studio LP, though if you count mixtapes and collaborations and whatnot, the number is a whole lot higher than that.
Today, the new LP is out in the world, and we can now fully confirm that it has nothing to do with Arcade Fire. Just one week ago, rap legend Lil Wayne announced his new album Funeral.