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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
Future is the only one whose albums/mixtapes consistently have great songs. I keep digging and I keep finding new songs that rule. No one gave a shit that Puff Daddy, Mase, and BIGGIE SMALLS used auto tune to tweak their shit (they just did it without showing you they did it), nor did anyone care when TPain autotuned every last syllable. why care about Future? The tracks are bangers.
Drake, I can take or leave. he is a pop star and he has been lucky to work on some really cool tracks, but his MC skillz are lacking.
All my fave music growing up was deranged drug-friendly music. That is why I love Future. He raps about loving drugs..... honest
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I don't have an issue with auto-tune. Jesus, dude, I'm a Yeezy fan. Auto-tune saved hip-hop. People often think of it as just a way for people who can't sing to give people the impression that they can sing, but that's like ⅓ of it at most. It's a vocal effect, and it achieves a certain sound, gives the singing a kind of off-kilter, clinical clarity. I dig the way it sounds... Though I do think it's possible to overdo it, as Future has definitely done.
But you're right that Future is not about anything other than making shit that bangs. Even his woozy, slower shit kinda bangs, and could easily rock a club, like "Codeine Crazy" ... He's not trying to be some immensely versatile, genre-spanning pop
artiste. He's just trying to be Future and release as much Future-y music as possible.
Same can be said for some of the most cherished artists in the history of punk and indie. Ramones, anyone?
And I agree that even on his shit albums, Future always has bangers that satisfy. He's not ever going to be a genius wordsmith, or a brilliant technician, but he seems to know that and plays to his own strengths.
Still, I find at least ˝ of his music boring beyond comprehension. But I'm certainly not hating on him because he uses auto tune. That would just be stupid.