Or should we call it an album? He included a mash-up picture of OVO Sound and Future’s Freebandz logos. Vulture’s Jillian Mapes, Lauretta Charlton, and Dee Lockett answer all your pressing questions in a roundtable discussion below.
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Who Dominated, Performance-wise? Who Was This More Beneficial For, Career-wise? Then, much like Future’s Dirty Sprite 2 album cover, found the exact photo on Shutterstock after seeing the image URL.
What A Time To Be Alive isn’t a defining release for Drake or for Future. “Jersey” is Future’s solo song, and from the opening instrumental portion, it clearly felt like any Future song I had heard before. With Drake, it’s all for sport.
The team jumps right back into the trap music with “I’m the Plug” and slows down once more with “Change Location”. “Diamonds Dancing”, with its murmuring clouds of psych-rock guitar and its intuitive-repetition hook, is absolutely entrancing, especially during the brief moments when Future hits falsetto mode. From a distance, this looks like a string of unqualified successes for Drake: he’s managed to separate himself from the Starbucks rap of his early career, snuff out accusations of ghostwriting, and has manipulated the public’s thirst for new material like a puppetmaster all year. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to rap aficionados considering both Drake and Future have both delivered stellar projects this year that charted number one. Or maybe this mixtape isn’t supposed to be taken seriously and it’s just a soundtrack to getting turnt, either way it’s definitely not Drake’s best work. Drake’s rhymes and Neenyo’s solid production are enough to make you forget “Plastic Bag” is a generic anthem about a lap dance.
But Who Really Killed It? He’s named executive producer on the tape, and he used those six days in Atlanta with two rappers in their prime to his advantage.
Jumpman [Prod.by Metro Boomin]. “And if I hold my tongue about it, I get crucified”.
Drake clashed with Nicki Minaj’s fiancé this summer when Meek Mill claimed that Drake didn’t write his own lyrics.
“The haters just bringing me and my people closer, actuallyWhat happened to the things n-gas said were supposed to happen?” From discussing his divorce with artist Ciara to talking about his rough upbringing, Future isn’t afraid to put it all out there on this song. Future doesn’t second-guess his actions, sounding like his 2015 self at a strip club. What more do you need, America? Occasionally the two conjure interesting spaces between underground murk and pop-star sheen (Live From The Gutter, Scholarships), and the tension, as they adapt to each other, is compelling. Given Drake’s profile, it seems obvious that his presence amplifies the project. If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late and DS2 found each rapper behaving hedonistically in previously unseen ways, especially Drake.
What a Time succeeds when Future and Drake pay attention to themselves and just rap. The release premiered on Drake’s OVO Sound show on Apple’s Beats 1 radio last night, and is now available exclusively on iTunes and Apple Music.
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So we combed through the entire album to find every instance where Drake is probably dissing Meek Mill.
