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Tyler Krenzin
Lantern Staff
Dropping an album is the most impressive thing that an up-and-coming artist can do. However, what do you do if you have almost done everything musically? This is the question that artist Future decided he needed to answer and in a huge way. Dropping two songs in two weeks is unheard of, let alone two albums. With FUTURE and HNDRXX, Future has paced himself atop of the charts yet again.
Focusing in on FUTURE, we get a gritty look into the underbelly of Future’s life before rapping and his present struggles. Future has been struggling with a married woman, and he takes a not so subtle nudge at his woman’s man on the song “Draco”. Disses are passed around a lot in this album, which is nothing of a surprise from Future. This album just seems as if he is doing exactly what he was doing in Dirty Sprite and Dirty Sprite 2. He has a lot of forgettable songs such as “Outta Time” and “Scrape” that, let’s be honest, you don’t have saved into your playlist. Future struggled really to find something different to set this apart from his other music. Only a couple songs off this album made it into my playlist, and honestly I could live without them. This album only earns a six out of a 10, a barely passing grade for a barely passable album.
Now we will move on to the meat of the bones with HNDRXX. HNDRXX just has a different feel than other songs Future has ever dropped under his name. The album gives off almost a soulful vibe while keeping his signature “Banger” style. If you have listened to Chance the Rapper’s “Smoke Break”, a song that Future is featured in, you can make an idea of what Future’s album HNDRXX is like. Hit songs will carry this album with his huge collaborations with stars such as The Weeknd and Rihanna, so it’s not hard to understand the mass appeal to this album.
It was clear from the very beginning what song would be the shining star to this album. “Comin Out Strong,” a song that features a stud in The Weeknd, is four minutes of pure genius. The song seems longer than it actually is, and both of the verses on the song are extraordinary. Couple this almost surefire platinum song with the nice-sized handful of other very well done songs and this album is almost perfectly built. All in all, this album far outshines the other and is a nice change of pace from his normal stuff. HNDRXX earns an eight out of 10–not the perfect album but then again it is a nice change of pace.
