![]() ![]() But Pluto, an album that managed to be both on-trend and idiosyncratic to the extreme, is where Future’s status as a transformative figure started to come into focus.Īs the cousin of Organized Noize producer Rico Wade, Future had a blood connection to the Dungeon Family - the pioneering collective that launched Southern freaks OutKast and Goodie Mob to landscape-altering celebrity and helped establish Atlanta as the rap capitol of the world - and he telegraphed that bond by having Big Rube deliver one of his trademark monologues to open Pluto. He’d later carry singles as different as Ace Hood’s paranoid sledgehammer “Bugatti” and Rihanna’s squelching, croaking, deeply tuneful “Loveeeeeee Song,” crystallize his antihero persona on 2015’s archetypal DS2, join forces with Drake for the biggest joint rap release since Watch The Throne, and seamlessly hybridize trap and R&B on 2017’s HNDRXX, all before finally reaching the top of the Hot 100 in the long tail of his career. ![]() ![]() When Nayvadius Wilburn released his official debut album 10 years ago this Sunday, he was already a standout on the mixtape circuit and an unusual hit-maker on the radio - a charismatic dreadlocked giant in omnipresent shades, his voice hoarse and wheezing under an avalanche of Auto-Tune. ![]()
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