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Future

Few rappers have shaped the sound of modern hip-hop the way Future has. Coming up out of Atlanta in the early 2010s, he took the melodic, Auto-Tune-soaked approach to trap and made it entirely his own, and the style he helped build on albums like Pluto and DS2 went on to echo through a whole generation of younger rappers. His run from 2015 onward, with records arriving sometimes two in a year, kept him near the centre of rap for the better part of a decade.

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DS2 (2015). DS2 is where everything came together: hazy, heavy trap production under some of his most focused writing, including "Fuck Up Some Commas," "Where Ya At," and "Stick Talk." If you want to understand why so much rap after 2015 sounds the way it does, this is the record.

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Biography

Nayvadius DeMun Cash (né Wilburn; born November 20, 1983), known professionally as Future, is an American rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer. Known for his mumble-style, rap-singing and prolific output, Future is credited with helping pioneer the use of Auto-Tuned delivery in trap music. He is commonly regarded as one of the most influential rappers of his generation.

Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Future signed a recording contract with Rocko's A1 Recordings in 2011, which entered a joint venture with Epic Records shortly after. His first two studio albums, Pluto (2012) and Honest (2014), were both met with critical and commercial success, spawning the platinum-certified singles "Turn On the Lights", "Honest", "Move That Dope" (featuring Pharrell Williams and Pusha T), and "I Won" (featuring Kanye West). His subsequent albums have each debuted atop the US Billboard 200; his third and fourth, DS2 (2015) and Evol (2016), were supported by the singles "Where Ya At" (featuring Drake) and "Low Life" (featuring the Weeknd), respectively.

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