★★★★★
"Got the girl dripping wet like a Jheri curl / got a Styrofoam cup and it's full of syrup..." My, my, my--the things important to rappers these days, sex and lean among them. One of today's more idiosyncratic MCs, Future, does expand his scope slightly beyond the aforementioned, but don't call him a poet. I mean, this is the same dude who multitasks everything "at the same damn time." Future lies somewhere between rap and contemporary R&B, thanks to his affection for autotune...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-05-05
★★★★★
Future has previously offered some of the lowest hanging narrative fruit for journalists possible, crafting a discography-spanning reference to space exploration that has provided a convenient metaphor for any writer commenting on his experimentation within hip-hop; with his sophomore LP Honest, he largely pivots away from this narrative. While the space-narrative was effective, the real final frontier is not in the outer reaches of the Kuiper Belt, but somewhere in the oceanic depths...
- absolutepunk.net
2014-04-30
★★★★★
Back in June of 2012 Future announced he'd be naming his sophomore studio album , and the Internet instantly attacked. He found himself defending the title as though he were crazy enough to blasphemously blend his name with Jesus. He explained, " just comes from being different. Jimi Hendrix, he always stood out, and I always like the way he stood out...it's striving to be different...
- www.prefixmag.com
2014-04-29
★★★★★
The more I pick apart a line like "Ever since I got with you I feel like I done won me a trophy," the more unsavory it becomes. Playing "I Won" on repeat, I often end up wondering whether Future is referring to Ciara, his fiancée, or a Real Doll. But he sings with such yearning intensity that I allow myself to forget the extent to which his entire metaphor is fucked...
- www.tinymixtapes.com
2014-04-29
★★★★★
Future, Honest
Future's mercilessly AutoTuned voice is one of mainstream rap's most omnipresent. The guy's built a pop empire by cannily anticipating and then mining the fertile nexus of nearly every on-trend sound enjoying its fifteen minutes on urban radio. The question Future loves to pose is: Why listen to marquee names (think Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, the Weeknd, or Drake) when you can listen to another marquee name that sounds like all those artists, all at once, without scanning as...
- prettymuchamazing.com
2014-04-29
★★★★★
The road to hasn't been an easy one. Rap albums designed to propel their artist into the national consciousness get an almost uniform promotion timeline. The street single comes first, which is designed to play well on Rap/R&B; radio stations and in clubs. Then, 4 to 8 months later comes the pop single, which should break through to top 40 pop radio while also performing well on Rap/R&B.; A few months after that the album is released...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2014-04-28
★★★★★
Two years after his acclaimed debut, Pluto, launched Atlanta emcee Future into the mainstream, the scratchy-voiced prince of Auto-Tune returns. Except this time with less overt vocal processing - partly because Future's voice has improved, and partly because it's started to imitate that computerized sound...
- nowtoronto.com
2014-04-24
★★★★★
More than two years after his acclaimed debut, Pluto, launched Atlanta emcee Future into the mainstream, carving the hook-singing rapper his very own unlikely lane in hip-hop, the scratchy voiced prince of auto-tune returns. Except this time, with less overt vocal processing - partially because Future's voice has improved, and partially because it's almost started to imitate that computerized sound...
- nowtoronto.com
2014-04-23
★★★★★
If you're looking for complexity in your rap lyricism then turn away now. Future is on record saying that he intentionally dumbs things down, and with 'Honest', the focus is on melody and emotion before words. Luckily, his second studio album offers the most diverse palette we've heard thus far from this Atlanta MC. The aggression of 'Covered N Money' and 'My Momma' successfully complements the introspective 'I Be U' and 'Blood, Sweat, Tears'...
- www.clashmusic.com
2014-04-23
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