Over the album’s one-hour duration, Future delivers agreeable singles like “Jumpin on a Jet” and “Crushed Up,” before averting his attention to morose trap ballads (“Baptiize”) and dumbass bangers (“Faceshot”). The Wizrd is also a 20-track album, and it overstays its welcome - even for someone whose ears have been trained to accommodate the monumental run times of rap albums in the streaming era.
Seven studio albums and many, many mixtapes in, Future may have begun to brush up against the limits of his creative curiosity. What we have here, instead, is an album seemingly born from inertia, one that’s not particularly bad, but with no specific motivation for existing. The Wizrd doesn’t continue this exploratory trend, nor does it achieve the intimacy and efficiency of last year’s nine-track Beast Mode 2 mixtape. While Future’s track record over the last few years has been less than unimpeachable, at least his more scattershot efforts (like 2017’s Future) have tended to be the result of risky experimentation, and born of a preference for sonic eclecticism. Which isn’t to say that Future Hndrxx Presents: The Wizrd is a failure of an album, but rather that it’s suggestive of a failure of imagination. But alas, seven studio albums and many, many mixtapes in, Future may have begun to brush up against the limits of his creative curiosity.
#Future the wizrd leak how to#
That dichotomy has always made for an exciting artist - and Future has displayed an understanding of how to tweak his iconography and performance from project to project, justifying the majority of his massive body of work.
But Nayvadius DeMun Wilburn’s persona is different, and odd to evaluate - marked, on the one hand, by a sedated anti-charisma, and on the other, by a commitment to documenting his own life in such a way as to suggest that it’s filled with debasement, a portrayal that favors the self-image of a sad sleaze-bag. As far as contemporary pop stars go, Future was always somehow simultaneously the surest, and the least sure, bet: In the context of current rap, his success makes perfect sense, fitting right alongside Drake’s and Kanye West’s, two artist’s who’ve nimbly adapted to the shifting aesthetic trends in their genre.
0 kommentar(er)
