

I couldn't remember one word to a Future song, because my mind was that far away from it. You're in Dubai, so far from that part of the world. When you're in jail you can’t remember nothing no more. When I got out, the first song I played was “March Madness,” the only song I could think of in prison. I’m only going to put eight songs on here out of these 400 songs, which eight am I going to put on here to make it tell the story? had cut a few new songs for me, like “Never Gonna Lose” and “56 Nights Crazy,” and then I had all these years' of songs- hard drive was in jail with me, so that’s why he made Beast Mode. If there’s one thing Future wouldn’t risk, after all, it’s letting Thugger - his main competition for dominance in the Atlanta street rap sphere - upstage him.Tell me about how you put 56 Nights together. Future seems to playing off of Thug’s elliptical skittishness, rather than sticking to his comfort zone, and he plays the game relatively well. Fighting words were tossed around by the two not long ago, so it’s nice to see them reuniting to make something great. We haven’t seen Young Thug and Future work together in a while in fact, they hardly ever have.
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We’ve sifted through the tape to find the playlist-worthy moments so you don’t have to. Even the ever-exuberant 2 Chainz cannot shock this corpse back to life. The soporific “100it Racks” is deeply, inexorably wack, and somehow it’s not entirely the fault of Drake’s Future impression. Sometimes everything just collaborates to be super boring, as if the involved parties were too cocky to think that something they put their names on could fail. Often this brings out the best in him at the worst moments (say, trying to keep up with the Mountain-Dew-Kickstart-fueled yelps of Rae Sremmurd on “Party Pack”), they outshine him to an almost- embarrassing extent.

But elsewhere, when he takes some chances and picks the right production, it contains some of his best work since DS2.įuture is playing a role that he hasn’t for some time, in his post-Ciara breakup, studio-rat work cycle: He’s mentoring, and even playing off other artists.
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As often befits something one could describe as “sprawling,” it is also very inconsistent, full of some of Future’s lowest lows in recent memory - in the first half, droning, rote Future creepers. Esco Terrestrial is comparatively sprawling: 16 songs, packed with special guests from Drake to Young Thug to Juicy J to young Bay rapper Nef the Pharaoh. This year, Future’s projects have been terse, limited in style, and lonely in tone. is the longest Future mixtape in some time ( DS2 was an album). Except now, as is increasingly frequent, the head interstellar visitor is DJ Esco, these days a figure and meme in his own right sound clips feature Esco talking about his stint in jail in Dubai (made famous by the skits of Future’s 56 Nights project last year) and how he felt like an “alien” there.Į.T. The concept is a throwback to the now-ye-olde Future of 20, when he first solidified his link to alien races with Astronaut Status and Pluto.

The title of the new Future project, Esco Terrestrial, is great, and in its own way, so is the hideous cover.
