![]() ![]() The twinkling bass-heavy beat sounds ripped straight from the What a Time to Be Alive sessions, a collaboration that was quite well-produced. The most likely candidate, on star power alone, is the Drake and 2 Chainz collaboration “100it Racks”. So far, he’s taken the first option.Īs he’s an A-list rapper, however, it’s obvious that any release would come with hits inside. But as I wrote about Purple Reign, Future’s now in a simultaneously enviable and unenviable position: he’s at the top of the game, yes, but this now means that the two options are coast off of the success or enter into a period of experimentation to further his sound. No, it’s fashionable designers (what else?), expensive cars (what else?), and myriad drugs (what else?). Rather, he sounds bored on much of the tape, and not the Cam’ron-ian bored arrogance of the introduction to “Low Life” where he adds a rare bout of self-awareness to the mix. Granted, this could lead to enjoyable turn-up music, but it lacks the gleeful intensity that songs of that nature need. Instead, the project could be subtitled “Future’s Shopping List”, as the lyrics read more like that than anything else. But it’s not representative of the product as a whole. It’s a fun song with a characteristic Zaytoven piano beat, anchored with Vert’s joyous boasts: “Diamonds, they look like Dasani / More like Voss”. A huge look for Lil Uzi Vert, who provides all of the song’s verses, Future melodically keeps inventing new ways to say the phrase “too much sauce”. But the latter song is still evidence of one of Future’s greatest strengths, that of infectious hook-maker. ![]() Elsewhere, “Audemars, Hublots now” on “Too Much Sauce” is less descriptive than the dizzying turn-of-phrase from “Codeine Crazy”: “I say everything triple-time / AP, Rollie, Hublot, triple time”. On “Benjamins”, he plainly states “I went bonkers in Europe”, a far cry from the “I did 56 broads on the European tour and they was all crazy / I took 56 bars all in one month” of “56 Nights”. ![]() and the three mixtape run he’s so known for. The clearest way this is evident is by examining similar lyrics from E.T. What does its finishing track, “Benjamins Burn”, say about its larger project? Unfortunately, that Future’s still in the coasting mode that began with Purple Reign. Starting from Monster, we saw the classic “Codeine Crazy”, a song that did as much to elevate Future to mythologizing status as any of his releases Beast Mode finished off with “Forever Eva”, one of his finest showings of the power of repetition 56 Nights closed with the title track on the original download, but has switched to “March Madness” on his Soundcloud, and each capture his eye for detail and looking back on the months that led to his ascent Purple Reign also ended on the title track, and, while it’s a powerful statement in its own right, it and the mixtape that it came from suffered from the knowledge that “Codeine Crazy” and Monster existed. Looking back to his unparalleled run starting with 2014’s Monster to his latest offering, a collaborative mixtape with his DJ Esco, Project E.T., the last tracks reveal much about what precedes them. You can tell a lot about a Future mixtape by its closing song. ![]()
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