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On the surface, these songs on the first half could snugly fit into any standard Future tape or album, but there’s nothing about them particularly memorable or engaging in their execution. The opener “Never Stop” features one of Hendrix’s most emotional and revealing lyrical odysseys yet as he dissects his come-up over an equally cinematic and beautiful banger beat, but nearly everything afterwards doesn’t match its quality. Not here, however they lacked that extra “wow” factor for me, never reaching anything beyond an okay refrain, okay beat, or okay flow from Future himself. Future tends to be criticized for sticking too much to his usual formula, but he makes up for it by crafting memorable refrains, bars and flows that match the beat in ferocity and emotion. Sure, the minimalist production throughout the album was bangin’, from the moody background tones on “Jumping on a Jet”, sliding synths and turntables on the standout “Crushed Up”, and the omnipresent bass, but what most of these early tracks lacked, in comparison to past Future cuts, were a sense of memorability.
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While listening to The WIZRD, I had a serious problem with giving a damn about the majority of the songs I was hearing on the front end.
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Unfortunately, it doesn’t live up to Future’s potential there are a good amount of true standouts in its 20 track runtime, but there are also far too many uneventful moments in the mix as well. Now, in tandem with the release of the excellent documentary under the same name, The WIZRD album has dropped. 2018 was a “quiet” year for the lean sipping monster, having released two solid mixtapes in Beastmode 2 and Wrld On Drugs, and making a soundtrack for the Superfly remake.ĭS2, Future’s most infamous and game-changing album so far, was a landmark achievement in minimalist trap and paved the way for club bangers that are still coming out today. Future has multiple trap album landmarks within his constantly expanding discography, and The WIZRD is next in his lineup. This outbreak (covered in my previous article about his excellent mixtape run), is one of the most important in the modern hip hop scene and Southern rap in general.
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His iconic slurred-yet-smooth, hedonistic yet depressed rap and lyrical style has rubbed off on countless rappers currently rising in the underground and mainstream his trademark melodic singing and flowing over hard hitting and minimalist beats is immediately recognizable the memes that have been created in Future’s massive shadow over the music world have been nonstop since his outbreak in the early 2010s. The Atlanta-based, Dungeon Family affiliated, and currently sober Nayvadius Wilburn is one of the most influential, infamous, and important artists of the 2010s period. By: Thomas Rodriguez The WIZRD displays some mesmerizing trap bangers in its hour and two minute runtime, but it takes quite a while to get to them.įuture Season has arrived, ladies and gentlemen.