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Future, whose real name is Nayvadius DeMun Cash, is an American rapper and singer. Future, who is well-known for his mumbled vocals and prolific output, is credited with inventing the use of melody and auto-tune in contemporary trap music. Owing to the ongoing appeal of his sound in the modern era, he is widely considered as one of the most significant rappers of his generation. “Turn On the Lights,” “Honest,” “Move That Dope” (featuring Pharrell Williams and Pusha T), and “I Won” (featuring Kanye West) were among the platinum singles from Future’s albums Pluto (2012) and Honest (2014). Future was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, and signed a recording contract with A1 Recordings and Epic Records in 2011. His following albums, which included the lead singles “Where Ya At” (featuring Drake) and “Low Life” (featuring The Weeknd), respectively, supported his third album DS2 (2015) and its follow-up Evol (2016), both of which peaked at number one on the US Billboard 200 and enjoyed greater critical and commercial success upon release. With his self-titled fifth album and its follow-up Hndrxx (both released in 2017), Future became the first artist in history to debut two albums at the top of the US Billboard 200 in consecutive weeks; the former featured the global hits “Mask Off” and “Used to This” (featuring Drake).

Future’s albums The Wizrd (2019) and High Off Life (2020), the latter of which produced the diamond-certified hit “Life Is Good” (featuring Drake), were released after he left A1. Future’s guest appearance on Drake’s song “Way 2 Sexy” with Young Thug resulted in a record-breaking 125 entries, and in 2021, he achieved his first numberone single on the Hot 100. His second single to peak the Hot 100 and first as a lead artist, “Wait for U” (featuring Drake and Tems), came from his ninth studio album, I Never Liked You (2022). The song was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album, but its parent album won one for Best Melodic Rap Performance.

The hit song “Jumpman” was featured on Future’s 2015 mixtape What a Time to Be Alive, which featured Drake, 56 Nights, and Beast Mode, which he released with Zaytoven. He released the full-length joint albums Pluto x Baby Pluto (2020) with Lil Uzi Vert, Wrld on Drugs (2018) with Juice Wrld, and Super Slimey (2017) with Young Thug. Future is one of the best-selling artists, and he has won two Grammy Awards.

As a performer with the Georgia-based musical group Dungeon Family, Future started his career under the stage name “Meathead”. He was a member of the collective “Da Connect,” a smaller hip-hop group where G-Rock, another member of the group, would later dubbed him “The Future.” The group only put out one album, Rico Wade Presents: Da Connect, which was eventually shelved despite being scheduled for commercial release in 2003. “Belly of da Beast,” the project’s sole solo release from Future, is regarded as his debut single.

Rico Wade, a member of the Dungeon Family and his first cousin, encouraged him to hone his writing abilities and seek a career as a rapper, explaining that recording would provide a brief escape from the life of the streets. Future made several appearances in Dungeon Family music videos during this period. In 2004, he was given his first songwriting credit on the Organized Noize-produced single “Blueberry Yum Yum” for rapper Ludacris. Future expresses gratitude to Wade for his mentoring and musical influence, referring to him as the “mastermind” of his sound. After that, Future was discovered by another rapper from Atlanta, Rocko, who signed Future to his A1 Recordings record label and mentored him as a solo artist.

Future put out several mixtapes between 2010 and the beginning of 2011, such as 1000, Dirty Sprite, and True Story. Subsequently, the single “Tony Montana” was featured, referencing the Scarface movie. He became well-known in the area when DJ Esco played his songs at Magic City, an Atlanta strip club that is “largely responsible for launching the careers of artists.” He collaborated with Atlanta rapper YC on the song “Racks” in April 2011, and the result was his first hit song and entry into the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 42. Free Bricks, Future and rapper Gucci Mane’s joint mixtape, was set to drop in July of that same year.

One way to describe Future’s music is as trap music. Future frequently uses Auto-Tune in his songs, using it for both singing and rapping. Pitchfork reported in 2013 that Future “finds a multitude of ways for the software to accentuate and color emotion,” “miraculously demonstrating that it’s still possible for Auto-Tune to be an interesting artistic tool.” In 2016, The LA Times stated that Future’s music “comes closest to conjuring the numbing overstimulation of our time” and that his “highly processed vocals suggest a man driven to bleary desperation by drugs or love or technology.” According to GQ, he “has managed to reboot the tired auto-tune sound and mash it into something entirely new” , stating that he “combines it with a bizarro croon to synthesize how he feels, then stretches and deteriorates his words until they’re less like words, more like raw energy and reactive emotions” . In 2018, critic Simon Reynolds declared, “he’s reinvented blues for the 21st century.”

In 2014, Future’s unusual use of the audio processor drew criticism from American rapper T-Pain, who also uses it. Future responded by saying in an interview that “I never used Auto-Tune to sing when I first started using it. I did not use it in the same manner as T-Pain. Because it gives my voice a gritty sound, I used it to rap. Everyone wants to rap in auto-tune these days. Not everyone is in the future. Owing to the ongoing appeal of his sound in the modern era, he is widely considered as one of the most significant rappers of his generation.