

Was this the same Future who said, “Got my dick sucked, I was thinking about you/I was fucking on a slut and I was thinking about you?” For much of his career, Future let the music do the talking.

I love the thought of finding real love.” It was a record-scratch, freeze frame moment. But, the most shocking tidbit came from an interview with the Fader: “ misunderstood the fact how much I love love. In one, he christened Lil Baby and Gunna as the “new goats of trap.” In another, he considered the ways he exposed preteens to promethazine. There seemed to be a new interview everyday, and something new to glean from each of them. The rollout for The WIZRD included a press run that could debunk the idea that the celebrity profile as a journalistic endeavor is dead. The album is confirmation that Future’s blueprint would always work, but also indicates staying in his comfort zone could stunt his growth.

Last week, Future released The WIZRD, his seventh solo album, which feels like a last-minute attempt to purge every brutal thought lingering in his mind as he enters the next decade of his career and is forced to examine his most important identity of all: Nayvadius Wilburn. So, to members of the Future Hive it should come as no surprise that the man of many aliases is refocusing his efforts after 2018, which with only one solo project in July, could be considered a quiet year for an artist who has a reputation for dropping multiple albums and mixtapes in the span of a few months. “ is like my crystal ball and come up with these different ideas and brainstorm,” he says. In that same interview, Future suggested there’s a level of sorcery required to attain his rock star status. Now, we’re getting acquainted with The Wizard, a moniker he said in MTV News interview he needed to tap into after 2016’s Purple Reign. Over the years we’ve been introduced to the many personas of the Atlanta rapper: Astronaut Kid, Super Future, and Future Hendrix, just to name a few. For the first time in a decade, it sounds like Future is tired of being a savage.
