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WhenFutureannounces a release date, we brace ourselves.
Hes going to get inside our heads and stir up feelings we make a run at contain.
Future records are playgrounds for the unrestrained straight male id.
He says shit a lot of guys wish they could.
He dates the women everyone else ogles on Instagram.
Hes affluent and influential, well liked and well connected, and almost impossibly nonchalant about it all.
Hes not like Ye and Kendrick Lamar, guys who throw out a massive curveball from time to time.
Hes astoundingly, almost frustratingly consistent.
He favors fast, foreboding trap beats and atmospheric R&B.
Sometimes Future needs companionship.
Sometimes hes inviting you to get flown out and thrown out.
Nine albums in, this is all still working because Future understands his strengths.
He skirts cliche almost purely by force of personality.
Dancing around his range in Voodoo, Future gets Kodak Black singing about mistakes and regrets.
The guest spots onI Never Liked Youshow how infectious of a collaborator Future is.
Gunna and Young Thug show out on For a Nut because Future pushes himself.
But its always clear whose album it is.
Other rappers add to the scenery; Future is the breeze they lean into.
He can be a ghoul when he applies himself.
Lurid lines linger: Got monkey nuts, spray shit on camera.
Bitches still claiming me that I aint fucked in over a year.
Told the waitress I dont drink liquor, I drink lean.
Fucked her in her ass, made her pee pee / Im just aghetto boylike Peezy.
Like a Gulfstream or a Cartier, a Future tape offers careful variation on a winning concept.
Its possible to whiff it, but you really have to try.
