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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