It’s hard to believe we are more than 20 years removed from Lil Wayne’s debut solo album Tha Block Is Hot. But after more than two decades and 100 million albums sold, Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. is a bona fide rap legend. And with his 13th studio album Funeral, released on January 31, he’s proven he’s just as relevant — and lethal — as he was 21 years ago.
The recently minted No. 1 album pushed him past legends such as Elvis Presley, The Beatles and Eminem.
Despite initially claiming he would retire from the game at 35, Funeral proves he’s got a lot of fight — and a lot of bars — left in him. Here are the seven most potent bars from the project, proving even if you spark it up, Weezy F. Baby will put you out.
7. “Wild Dogs”
The Bars: “Me and my dawgs don’t fuck with the rest of ’em/We treat ’em like veterinarians/Me and my dawgs, we come to your area/We gon’ go hard just like DMX and them (Ruff).”
The Verdict: When Lil Wayne gets behind the mic and just snaps, he’s one of the best to ever do it. His influence on 21st century rising rap superstars like DaBaby is evident in this track, where he runs marathons around his contemporaries and shows the kids just how Uncle Weezy gets it done.
6. “Get Outta My Head”
The Bars: “I got voices in my head, wild horses in my head/Runnin’ around, horse playin’/Breakin’ pots up in my head, waking corpses in my head/And they was better off dead.”
The Verdict: Featuring a back-and-forth with the late XXXTENTACION, “Get Outta My Head” is paranoid Weezy acknowledging — and banishing — his demons, be they naturally occurring or drug-induced.
5. “Trust Nobody”
The Bars: “And I don’t trust nobody (Nobody), not my lovers, not my friends (Nobody)/I don’t make no promises (No promises) ’cause I know just how they’ll end/And I don’t trust nobody, I don’t need nobody else (Nobody else)/And as messed up as it sounds, I don’t even trust myself.”
The Verdict: Lil Wayne takes this duet with Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine to the next level. It’s clear though, they aren’t equally yoked as Mr. Carter eats Levine alive. And that, in and of itself, is a glorious thing to watch.
4. “Mahogany”
The Bars: “Oh, you faded? I’m faded out/Oh, you made it? I made it out/But you shady like 8 Mile/8 Ball from Orange Mound, letdown, I lay her down/Like an eagle, she spread it out, ate it out, yeah, I ate it out/I’m a Libra, I weigh it out.”
The Verdict: This track is Lil Wayne 101: mix an Eminem reference with a cunnilingus reference, make a reference (or seven) to drugs and get Mannie Fresh to provide a smooth 1970s-style funk sound to Wayne’s rapid-fire freestyle.
3. “I Don’t Sleep”
The Bars: “I don’t sleep and I’m still livin’ out my dreams (I don’t sleep)/Kill you in your sleep and now you can’t get out your dreams (Fuck your dreams)/Notorious B.I.G. said it was all a dream (All a dream)/I’m reppin’ M-O-B, the mob, I got ties (Woo, woo).”
The Verdict: Props to Wayne for getting multi-layered with his lyricism. Here, he references both the classic Biggie track “Juicy” and the recent Drake smash “Mob Ties.” Bonus props for collaborating with Takeoff from the Migos on a track that’s far superior to 2015’s “Amazing Amy.”
2. “Bastard (Satan’s Kid)”
The Bars: “Mama used to say this when she stand above my baby crib/Never trust nobody that could bleed for five days and live/Grandma used to say that this world gon’ come to a crazy end/Monsters in my closet was the feds taking baby pics/Daddy used to look at me like, “Who the fuck this baby is?”/Uncle used to say, “Your daddy just too young to raise a kid”/Daddy used to treat my mama like they never made a kid/I’m Satan’s kid, I’m Satan’s kid, I’m Satan’s kid.”
The Verdict: Well, damn, sir. We felt some type of way and you weren’t even talking to us.
1. “Funeral”
The Bars: “Welcome to the funeral/We not welcome, we intruded, though/You wanted smoke until you blew the smoke/(Phew)/That’s just unexcusable.”
The Verdict: With “Funeral” — both the album and the title track — Lil Wayne has made clear he’s here to kick ass and chew bubble gum … and today just so happened to be the day that he’s freshly out of bubble gum.
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“I got voices in my head, wild horses in my head/Runnin’ around, horse playin’/Breakin’ pots up in my head, waking corpses in my head/And they was better off dead.”
-Wack as hell doent even rhyme
Apparently Kaz up there thinks its ???? what dumb piece of shit! Get back to cleaning toilets, you fkn mut
Ass eater.. Stan..lol yeah okay..
U picked the wackest bars on the album -_-
You’re right that nasal white boy is a better rapper and has outsold Wayne in about every way possible. Eminem’s trailer trash even outsells Drake and em continues to be the number one selling rap artist of all time. I admit that. Eminem still bumps in the greasy trailer sewers though. You have to admit, Wayne’s and Drake’s autotune is sexy. Look at Wayne’s dreads though. They look like poop logs.
Wayne is King … Feminem is a 50 year old booger eating old geezer who SHIT the bed at the Oscars.. ( it’s the death of wigga hop) “ ALL HAIL THE KING” .. it’s time for you Stans to bend the knee and kiss the ring.. ( bring it on)
Bruh… tf does eminem got to do with this, you flamboyantly gay racist?
Wtf is a kaz??? You lose brain cells from suckin all that dick n balls? HaHaHaHa dipshit
Gay huh??? Your hero is gay.. I have nothing against gay people.. Em is a wack wigga hopper.. lil Nas is more relevant than Em.. go eat 2 boogers and keep bumping the Bart Simpson of rap ok? Fuck boy
Damn foo you suckin wayne n jerkin em at the same time? Does your mommy clean your face n help you wash your hands afterward?
Not all eminem fans are white you dumb ignorant racist l. I bump dat shii in my ride when I light a blunt.
A crip from Louisiana??? Hahahaha.. you don’t even exist.. go away fake crab your just a gumbo ingredient…
Once again someone is crying about Em in an article that’s not even about him. You Em haters are worse than Stans. If you hate dude so much why can’t you keep him out your mouth? Swears up and down he’s soo trash but you can’t keep him off your mind. I bet you talk about how you hate him more than you praise the artist you like. Bitter ass and obsessed. What a life.
Hahaha .. white stans..wigga hop is dead.. blame me.. blame Wayne.. blame drake.. blame LIL Nas.. but don’t blame the 50 year old drug addict who lost 99.999 steps in rap relevancy.. keep it coming.. that’s why I’m here to expose you pecks as lame and out of step.. foreign of real rap culture.. you don’t know it.. you could never be a part of it.. I relish the fact that you want it so bad.. lol the great white nope is dead .. I piss on the grave of weak, wack parody wappa Feminem..
Real Gs move on silence like lasagna. And lasagna does not move. Wayne is the Godfather of the death of good rap music. No Limit, Cash Money, and the strip club scene in Atlanta birthed the bullshit new generation.
U damn right and don’t forget the corporations too. They push this shit on the market.
Wayne is overrated junk for the most part, but that line was somewhat clever… Just a cheesy ass line though. It’s not about Lasagna moving haha. It’s about Gs (gangstas) moving in silence, as the letter G is silent in the word Lasagna haha.
That lasagna reference doesn’t mean lasagna can move. The g in lasagna is silent, that’s the reference right there
That lasagna reference doesn’t mean lasagna can move. The g in lasagna is silent, that’s the reference right there
At some points you literally quoted a chorus? Did you listen to the album or just go to rap genius and copy and paste?
It’s amazing how bullshit sells. Most of his fans think weak rhymes are dope. Lil nas x and lil wayne should do a song together called gay rhymes. Perfect for valentine times day.
Lol Rememeber hip hop quotables in The Source back in the day? Common’s verse from the Sixth Sense? Prodigy’s verse from Quietstorm (White Lines)? Yeah, this bullshit you’re quoting here is not that.
Bernadette Giacomazzo, step your game up. This whole article is an insult to hip hop.
I done took so many L’s, that I couldn’t spell life without them.
Best song on this album was Mama Mia not even close. Also how you make a song called satans kid…. you devilish fools need to stop
That nigga trash
Lol I’m like who reviewed this shit
Bernadette is a celebrity gossip writer. This is nowhere near her lane.
Articles like this are the reason I barely check this site anymore. Not sure I will ever come back again. Money Miz was right on the Da Fuck U Mean Podcast when he was talking about Bernadette’s Journalistic credibility and this site in general. This site has fallen such a long way from the days when J23 and Jake Paine we’re working for it.
The best lines were not even quoted. Mama Mia alone has so many, an entire article could have been written on it alone
Who ever wrote this does not respect Wayne.
This is silly, those r not the hardest bars on the album, ur making weezy look bad…ur qouting the chorus as barz seriously? This album was fire lyrically, listen to it again n quote the actual barz, weezy spit so much fire in Funeral dont do him like that…
The reviewer is obviously one of those part time fans ( of any Artist ) who recites the Hook and mumbles the verses, and that’s on shit that’s already old in the streets. FOH Bernadette Giacomazzo