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One of the kings of trap returns with a colossal twenty-track
album. Future Hndrxx Presents: The WIZRD is Future’s
seventh studio album and arguably the first major rap/trap album of
2019. And along with this new release comes yet another one of the
Atlanta trapper’s alter-egos, The WIZRD. After Caesar Lee, Super
Future (the hard worker who produced albums such as Purple
Reign and Beast Mode), Fire Marshall Future (the
showman) and Future Hendrxx (the rock star) we now see the
emergence of The WIZRD. The WIZRD is a name that was given to
Future by his late uncle and is the alter-ego that has “got the
answers for everything” as he put it in an interview with MTV
News. It’s the persona he embraces when he goes “back into the
woods” to figure out his next release.
It seems The WIZRD knows how to mix different types of Future
together as this album consists of both melancholic melodies and
hard-hitting trap anthems. This mix of track style is something
that hasn’t been seen on past albums generally speaking. It’s
usually one style or the other. Future Hndrxx Presents: The
WIZRD brings together the softer melodies such as Never
Stop, Temptation and Tricks on Me as well as
the classic trap beats of Servin Killa Kam, Unicorn
Purp (featuring Gunna and Young Thug), First Off
(featuring Travis Scott) and Promise U That. Despite
including two young trap stars on the album in Young Thug and
Gunna, Future does not hesitate to take a slash at their
generation. With Krazy but True he claims that the trap
youth are living off his legacy, boldly stating “I’m god to
you, I worked too hard just to spoil you, you need to pay me my
respect…”. And in fairness, there a few that would deny
Future’s importance as an innovator for the sub-genre. He is indeed
trap royalty. There are some numbers here that could have and
perhaps should have been left out in order to reduce the size of
the rather overwhelming tracklist and render the album more
focused. Talk Sh*t Like a Preacher, Overdose and
the single Jumpin on a Jet serve only to fill in gaps,
gaps that aren’t actually there. However, overall Future gives us a
good mix of his f*** you attitude and his more apologetic side. ©
Euan Decourt/Qobuz
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