Wizrd is by no means Future’s hardest-hitting project, but at this point in his career, he is easily capable of laying down a banger on any given track. Officially titled FUTURE HENDRXX PRESENTS: THE WIZRD, the album runs at just over an hour in length, with Future dwelling on familiar tropes of intoxication, loneliness, fame and excess. After a modest two-year break (not counting mixtapes, collaborations, etc.) from official studio album releases, the self-proclaimed Future Hendrix returns with another expansive collection of trap songs set to his usual psychedelic and drug-addled backdrops. And while, yes, as a result of this, there has been a large quantity of boring, below average music in this style, it’s hard to argue against the fact that Future is an emblem for the modern sound of hip-hop at a time when the genre is more culturally dominant than ever.Īll relevance aside, Future is never one to slouch on releasing new music. In terms of pure imitation, he may indeed be the most copied man in hip-hop. Much like he and Young Thug ran with Lil Wayne’s excessive use of auto-tune sing-rapping, over the past five or six years, there has been an infinite amount of hip-hop artists attempting to replicate Future’s moody, menacing and slurred style of trap music.
Future is also in the even more selective class of insanely influential artists who have bred an entire movement of music that is substantially low in quality and in many cases, significantly worse than the artifact responsible for the creation of the trend. Known for his signature auto-tune croon style of rapping, Future’s prolific yet repetitive catalog places him in a unique category of contemporary rappers who have exerted massive amounts of creative influence on their peers to the point where there are several hundreds of copycats, indistinguishable in their sound from the originator. The trap-rap powerhouse has been one of the leading faces of the current rap generation for much of this decade and a highly influential figure on both the commercial and artistic fronts of mainstream hip-hop for many years now. Fortunately, his Future Hndrxx Presents: The WIZRD project includes only original, homegrown ingredients.Atlanta rapper Future needs little introduction. On the Wheezy-produced “Krazy but True,” Future alludes to the rationale behind continuously refining his style: “I’m God to you n****s/I work too hard just to spoil you n****s/You need to pay me my respect/Your socks, rings, and your lean/The way you drop your mixtapes, ad-libs, and everything.” It’s a very gentle ear-flick to the many MCs who’ve borrowed styles and ideas from a man who identifies as The WIZRD.
“Call the Coroner” and “Stick to the Models” are as dark as they are celebratory, chock-full of the unabashed nihilism that made 2014’s Monster so powerful. As a presentation of yet another identity, Future Hndrxx Presents: The WIZRD-the rapper’s seventh solo album-is less a wholly separate Future than one highlighting elements of them all.įuture reaches back into his own catalog from the outset: “Tryna run a billion up until my ankle pop” line from opening track “Never Stop” recalls 2011’s “Championship Music,” where he raps, “Money coming in from every angle/Paper chasing, running to it tryna break my ankle.” Over the woozy, Tay Keith-produced “Temptation,” he alternates between a conversational flow and the R&B vocal runs he leaned into on 2012’s Astronaut Status mixtape. These are just a few alter egos of the MC born Nayvadius Wilburn, taken up across a decade-long career as one of Atlanta’s most prolific and inventive voices.
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