The first soloFuturemixtape in eight years, the gritty, immediateMixtape Pluto, lurches in like a relapse, resurfacing the familiar demons that haunted his moody, nocturnal, tortured projects likeMonsterand56 Nightsa decade ago.
Its a quick splash of reality in the middle of a blockbuster 12 months of comparatively lusher and more cinematic successes.
His Metro Boomin collaborations, MarchsWe Dont Trust Youand AprilsWe Still Dont Trust You,both hit Number One, providing fans with nearly two and half houses of luxurious, cinematic, state-of-the-art trap-pop.
Rapper Future performs during “On Big Party Tour” at FLA Live Arena on March 17, 2023 in Sunrise, Florida.Prince Williams/Wireimage
By all rights he could be continuing to floss with the Weekend and Kendrick Lamar, doing love raps over Isley Brothers samples and releasing incredibly hard trap boasts with Travis Scott and Playboy Carti.
Instead,Mixtape Plutois subterranean and nocturnal, hedonistic one minute and aching with regrets the next, debauched but wounded.
Or, as he raps on South of France, Gotta talk about my dark days so you’re free to see my light.
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The Dirtbag Future, made famous on songs like 2016s Low Life, saunters into the room to stories of shoppings sprees, depressants and promiscuity but crucially never sounds truly content.
He cops a fleet of luxury cars across the album Bugatti, Ferrari, Rolls Royce Spectre, Mercedes Benz G-Wagon but points out that he drives them recklessly and too fast and on the wrong side of the road.
The albums breakout track Too Fast is a classic hip-hop tale of succumbing to temptations of success, but is told in that indelible Future way.
His money is being spent and spent and spent on taking a girl to Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills and Design District in West Hollywood, namechecking Hermes, Chanel, Bvlgari, Pucci, Patek and Richard Millie along the way the twist is that he may not even like her.
Had a talk with all the friends, told me top splurgin/Maybe it’s crucial that you settle down, buy it for someone worth it/Its the one that woke up with me, she get new purses.
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OnMixtape Pluto, Future pokes at his familiar wounds, showcasing the spoils of decadent life but juxtaposing it with the consequences.
The albums skeeziest lines I told my bitch, If I gotta be faithful, I might fall off are never too far from songs like Lost My Dog, a tale of losing a friend to Fentanyl where he raps Drugs in my body, I still cry for you.
Thirteen years and 10 Number One albums since breaking out with Tony Montana, Future is still a master of showing thatScarfacecame with both intoxicating highs and gruesome lows.
