Although he’s
since diluted his own brand with his prolific release schedule, there was once
a time when Nayvadius “Future” Wilburn wasn’t spending the majority of his free
time high as shit while trying to figure out which artist he should release a
collaborative project with next. Instead, he was trying to hone his craft as
one of the founding fathers of what we now refer to as “trap music”, all while
declining to capitalize (much) on his connections to Atlanta’s Dungeon Family
collective. 2015 saw two joint efforts enter Future’s ever-growing discography,
the first being a project fully produced by Zaytoven that hit all of the right
notes among the man’s fanatical base.
The second
was What A Time To Be Alive, a collaboration with Aubrey “Drake” Graham that
was marketed as a mixtape, albeit one that people had to pay for? Yeah, I don’t
understand the logic behind that shit either. Just call it an album and we’ll
all be on our respective ways, guys.
