Reps for Lil Wayne have confirmed heвЂ™s going to drop Funeral, which is his 13th studio album on Friday, January 31st. вЂњIвЂ™m on Cloud 9, nigga, you just on iCloud/IвЂ™m a icon, I shine and burn your eyes out,вЂќ he raps on вЂњPiano Trap.вЂќ Across the hour, Funeral sounds less like last rites for Wayne and more like a resurrection.(AllHipHop News) Lil Wayne has revealed the release date for his highly anticipated new album titled Funeral.Д®arlier this week, Weezy teased fans with the artwork for the project, but he didnвЂ™t reveal anything else. There is decidedly less storytelling on this record than Tha Carter V, but there is still plenty of clever and unpredictable writing. Lyrics about longevity (вЂњI had a Benz when you had a bikeвЂќ) and his artistic slump (вЂњSafe to say I lost my way but I never lost the lead/Safe to say I lost the brakes but I never lost the speedвЂќ) are snuck in behind cartoonishly vivid sequences (вЂњShe say I got a vanilla aftertaste/Cut his face, let him use his blood for his aftershaveвЂќ).

Wayne raps with a lightning ferocity that will often conceal his more direct revelations. Wayne mashes through every song with such reckless abandon itвЂ™s hard to tell where he draws influence these days.Д«ut it doesnвЂ™t take long for a song to get jump-started, and when it does, itвЂ™s thrilling to hear him romp about. вЂњDarksideвЂќ hedges closer to the sounds of SoundCloud gloomcasters like Trippie Redd, and he stalks through it with whiny tumbling phrases. вЂњI DonвЂ™t SleepвЂќ sounds like something PiвЂ™erre Bourne might produce for Playboi Carti, the fluttering flutes and springy synths suiting WayneвЂ™s half-sung cadences well. The thought experiment вЂњDreamsвЂќ is reminiscent of the best of Auto-Tune Wayne. Like most Wayne albums, it is longer than it needs to be and thus prone to dry spells.ДЇor years, it has been easy to find trace amounts of Lil WayneвЂ™s style from pop-rapвЂ™s center to well out along the weirder edges of the rap internet. Wayne, The-Dream, and Mike WiLL Made-It should be an ideal trio, but вЂњSights and SilencersвЂќ is an inert ballad with an ill-defined concept. On вЂњTrust Nobody,вЂќ which leans into a flatlining Adam Levine hook about not even being able to trust oneself, Wayne sounds both bored and boring. The songs where he stops to catch his breath and gather his thoughts tend to venture toward the vaguely introspective, considering isolation, distrust, and love, and they produce most of the albumвЂ™s sleepier moments. There is a breakneck speed to many of these verses, as if Wayne is so anxious to keep rapping that he canвЂ™t wait to get into the next one. Just take a look at this perfectly absurd sequence from the opener: вЂњDrive-bys in a Winnebago/Snipers never hit a baby, crib, or cradle/Sit tomatoes on your head and split tomatoes/From a hundred feet away, now itвЂ™s a halo.вЂќ Listening to Wayne on Funeral is a bit like watching a skateboard trick compilation: He wipes out a few times but itвЂ™s always in service of some epic stunt and when he does land one, it can be awe-inspiring. His вЂњBall HardвЂќ verse is a free-associative word game, bouncing from one character to the next until they begin to blur together. On the Mannie Fresh-produced вЂњMahogany,вЂќ which warps lyric fragments from Eryn Allen KaneвЂ™s вЂњ Bass SongвЂќ into jazz scatting, Wayne bends in and out of shape around her interjections. HeвЂ™s still a volume shooter, but like Rockets guard James Harden (who gets a song named after him here), his low-percentage play is offset by his high degree of difficulty, his ability to break the game with crafty maneuvers and extreme skill. WayneвЂ™s down years were largely the product of a diminishing punchline-to-clunker ratio. Which is to say: funneling what is likely countless hours in the booth spitballing and freestyling into something coherent. With his rebound record finally liberated and the pressure alleviated, Funeral gets back to business as usual for Wayne. Wayne has said Carter albums are the only projects that require any specific preparation and focus, and that his other albums and mixtapes are simply born from his marathon recording sessions. Released at the conclusion of legal battles with his surrogate father and lifelong mentor Birdman, the album felt like the beginning of a second (or third) act. Tha Carter V reestablished Lil Wayne as a force, answering many longstanding questions about his viability as an artist.

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