Lil Wayne has a sad announcement. 'Welcome to the funeral', it sounds in the title track of this album of the same name. Slyly he throws in a thick bass line a la A Milli and his tongue loosens. The rapper does not mince words and also takes quite some time for it. Funeral counts no less than 24 tracks, good for a sum of 75 minutes. The funeral from the title refers to Wayne's constant struggle with
… death. For example, he tried to step out of life at the age of 12 and has been struggling with health problems due to epilepsy for a long time. It doesn't stop Lil Wayne anymore. Despite the lengthy playing time, he manages to keep the variation on Funeral. Here and there he slackens a bit, like in the somewhat boring collaboration with . Other colleagues, such as , and rap a few verses. (JvQ)more
