At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an average score of 62, based on 10 reviews. Critical reception Professional ratings Aggregate scoresįuneral was met with a lukewarm response from critics. It is Lil Wayne's fifth US number-one album. įuneral debuted atop the US Billboard 200 for the week of February 15, 2020, recording 139,000 album-equivalent units, 38,000 of which were pure album sales. With the announcement, he also teased a snippet of the album's title track. On January 23, 2020, Lil Wayne revealed the album's release date and artwork. It reads Funeral right side up and Lil Wayne upside down. The calligraphic text on the cover features a rotational ambigram. In an interview leading up to the album's release, Lil Wayne explained the title Funeral as a continuation of his album Rebirth in 2010, to follow-up on the series. The album also contains 24 tracks on the standard edition and 8 tracks on the deluxe edition, honoring Kobe Bryant's jersey numbers with the Los Angeles Lakers. The track 'Bing James' concludes with 24 seconds of silence, paying tribute to the death of Kobe Bryant. Self-discovery, rebirth – call it whatever you want to call it but it feels awesome, I swear to God. Now, it's let me see what I come up with. it was just me going to the studio and saying, let me kill ten more songs and then I'm going to go home or do whatever I was doing. I can't wait to get in the studio now every night, just to see what I can come up with. I love the difficulty of trying to fit in with what's going on today, making sure I sound likeable to the ears today and having to remind myself that it's not about what it was back then.

In an interview with Vibe, Lil Wayne spoke on how his recording process changed throughout his career, saying: The album was completed in 2019, as Wayne started promoting the album again. In 2016, while Lil Wayne was in the midst of the legal battle with Cash Money Records over contractual disputes, it was announced that his next album would be titled Funeral.

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