Future Reveals the tracklist of the album
In the week before the release of his album, Future sat down with The FADER at the Epic Records offices in New York to discuss the album and the past year of his life. In the intimate discussion, which you can watch in part above and read in full below, he spoke about the way his most painful music is consumed and the pressure it brings to keep living a lifestyle that he feels he’s outgrown. In recent years, Future has become rap’s preeminent anti-hero but, in conversation, he was thoughtful and reflective, an ever-evolving artist on the precipice of another major shift.
You’ve been doing a lot of interviews recently after not really doing any for most of 2018. What was the past year like for you?The past year was just cool, just chilling, relaxing. Just still in the studio every day, working.
How does that change the way you record when you’re not attaching it to one project? Or you’re not rushing to put it out or give it to fans.
I just get in a comfortable creative space and just finding new ways to record, finding new friends to record with, new producers, and bouncing off each other’s ideas.
One moment that really did steal the show, though, was your verse on “King’s Dead.” What can you tell me about the process of recording that high-pitched verse?
The high-pitched verse was pretty much added by Kendrick, ’cause I had left it at the end of the song, just something I was doing just in case they wanted to have a intro or outro. I didn’t think he was gonna make it a part of my actual verse or even keep it at all. I thought he’d probably be like, Man, I’m not keeping that. But he end up thinking like, Man that’s the best part of the song. I think it was dope, the way it came out.
It’s probably one of those personas that resonates towards me. It just sit with me more, and it define me in a lot of ways. And also, just him passing, and … It was just like me continuing his legacy of him even believing in me. Like damn. You really seen the vision. You really had the vision for this. So, it’s just going back, but also, just me taking what’s already there and just critiquing it and just taking advantage of that moment and this opportunity to reflect on him and also to just close the chapter out of everything I’ve done so far up until now.
Wheezy. He produced a lot of records on this. 808 still produced a lot of records. I pretty much work with still the same producers. It was more records that Wheezy had on this. It wasn’t any particular reason. It just happened that way. It pretty much just fell into place. I feel like, sonically, his sound right now is mind-blowing, and it just might have you in this frenzy. It’s like a daze when he do beats. It’s like it captures you, just off his beats, the sounds that he choose. It just hypnotizes you, from the beginning. And you know, I had the tag on there, “Wheezy outta here.” So, it was just like we made a good match, and that’s what it is.In the week before the release of his album, Future sat down with The FADER at the Epic Records offices in New York to discuss the album and the past year of his life. In the intimate discussion, which you can watch in part above and read in full below, he spoke about the way his most painful music is consumed and the pressure it brings to keep living a lifestyle that he feels he’s outgrown. In recent years, Future has become rap’s preeminent anti-hero but, in conversation, he was thoughtful and reflective, an ever-evolving artist on the precipice of another major shift.
You’ve been doing a lot of interviews recently after not really doing any for most of 2018. What was the past year like for you?The past year was just cool, just chilling, relaxing. Just still in the studio every day, working.
How does that change the way you record when you’re not attaching it to one project? Or you’re not rushing to put it out or give it to fans.
I just get in a comfortable creative space and just finding new ways to record, finding new friends to record with, new producers, and bouncing off each other’s ideas.
One moment that really did steal the show, though, was your verse on “King’s Dead.” What can you tell me about the process of recording that high-pitched verse?
The high-pitched verse was pretty much added by Kendrick, ’cause I had left it at the end of the song, just something I was doing just in case they wanted to have a intro or outro. I didn’t think he was gonna make it a part of my actual verse or even keep it at all. I thought he’d probably be like, Man, I’m not keeping that. But he end up thinking like, Man that’s the best part of the song. I think it was dope, the way it came out.
It’s probably one of those personas that resonates towards me. It just sit with me more, and it define me in a lot of ways. And also, just him passing, and … It was just like me continuing his legacy of him even believing in me. Like damn. You really seen the vision. You really had the vision for this. So, it’s just going back, but also, just me taking what’s already there and just critiquing it and just taking advantage of that moment and this opportunity to reflect on him and also to just close the chapter out of everything I’ve done so far up until now.
You’ve been doing a lot of interviews recently after not really doing any for most of 2018. What was the past year like for you?The past year was just cool, just chilling, relaxing. Just still in the studio every day, working.
How does that change the way you record when you’re not attaching it to one project? Or you’re not rushing to put it out or give it to fans.
I just get in a comfortable creative space and just finding new ways to record, finding new friends to record with, new producers, and bouncing off each other’s ideas.
One moment that really did steal the show, though, was your verse on “King’s Dead.” What can you tell me about the process of recording that high-pitched verse?
The high-pitched verse was pretty much added by Kendrick, ’cause I had left it at the end of the song, just something I was doing just in case they wanted to have a intro or outro. I didn’t think he was gonna make it a part of my actual verse or even keep it at all. I thought he’d probably be like, Man, I’m not keeping that. But he end up thinking like, Man that’s the best part of the song. I think it was dope, the way it came out.
It’s probably one of those personas that resonates towards me. It just sit with me more, and it define me in a lot of ways. And also, just him passing, and … It was just like me continuing his legacy of him even believing in me. Like damn. You really seen the vision. You really had the vision for this. So, it’s just going back, but also, just me taking what’s already there and just critiquing it and just taking advantage of that moment and this opportunity to reflect on him and also to just close the chapter out of everything I’ve done so far up until now.
Wheezy. He produced a lot of records on this. 808 still produced a lot of records. I pretty much work with still the same producers. It was more records that Wheezy had on this. It wasn’t any particular reason. It just happened that way. It pretty much just fell into place. I feel like, sonically, his sound right now is mind-blowing, and it just might have you in this frenzy. It’s like a daze when he do beats. It’s like it captures you, just off his beats, the sounds that he choose. It just hypnotizes you, from the beginning. And you know, I had the tag on there, “Wheezy outta here.” So, it was just like we made a good match, and that’s what it is.In the week before the release of his album, Future sat down with The FADER at the Epic Records offices in New York to discuss the album and the past year of his life. In the intimate discussion, which you can watch in part above and read in full below, he spoke about the way his most painful music is consumed and the pressure it brings to keep living a lifestyle that he feels he’s outgrown. In recent years, Future has become rap’s preeminent anti-hero but, in conversation, he was thoughtful and reflective, an ever-evolving artist on the precipice of another major shift.
You’ve been doing a lot of interviews recently after not really doing any for most of 2018. What was the past year like for you?The past year was just cool, just chilling, relaxing. Just still in the studio every day, working.
How does that change the way you record when you’re not attaching it to one project? Or you’re not rushing to put it out or give it to fans.
I just get in a comfortable creative space and just finding new ways to record, finding new friends to record with, new producers, and bouncing off each other’s ideas.
One moment that really did steal the show, though, was your verse on “King’s Dead.” What can you tell me about the process of recording that high-pitched verse?
The high-pitched verse was pretty much added by Kendrick, ’cause I had left it at the end of the song, just something I was doing just in case they wanted to have a intro or outro. I didn’t think he was gonna make it a part of my actual verse or even keep it at all. I thought he’d probably be like, Man, I’m not keeping that. But he end up thinking like, Man that’s the best part of the song. I think it was dope, the way it came out.
It’s probably one of those personas that resonates towards me. It just sit with me more, and it define me in a lot of ways. And also, just him passing, and … It was just like me continuing his legacy of him even believing in me. Like damn. You really seen the vision. You really had the vision for this. So, it’s just going back, but also, just me taking what’s already there and just critiquing it and just taking advantage of that moment and this opportunity to reflect on him and also to just close the chapter out of everything I’ve done so far up until now.
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