Still, it’s not like Future needs to be loaded to make good tunes, or that he’d even advocate for anybody else to get loaded, as his fellow Atlanta rapper OG Maco recently claimed on Twitter. Title on down, Dirty Sprite 2 is, to put a fairly blunt point on it, drug music. If you guzzle enough lean and pop enough pills to the point where you convince yourself that becoming high isn’t just your new normal but is actively working to create a better, more dynamic, and bolder you, then drugs cease to be a crutch they’re a cape. As he says on bonus add-on “Percoset…,” “I just need a whole ‘lotta drugs in my system.” Sometimes he seems sad about this fact of his reality, sometimes happy, but most often he feels nothing. But to credit his recent musical successes to this stuff is to buy into narratives that don’t actually exist - it’s not like he was writing exclusively love songs while he was with Ciara, and Honest contained some of the best material of his career.Īnyone with ears will probably pick up on the prevailing theme of Dirty Sprite 2, which… well, to hear Future tell it, the guy’s an addict. He’s definitely coming off a high-profile breakup with Ciara, and after his sophomore album Honest failed to do the sort of numbers one might expect of an album featuring André 3000, Kanye West, and “Move That Dope,” Future certainly had to do a bit of musical regrouping. Many will be tempted to isolate certain lines from DS2 as something of a newfound mission statement for the Atlanta rapper, whether it’s his admission that the “Best thing I ever did was fall out of love” from “Kno the Meaning,” or when he says on “Serve the Base,” “ tryna make a pop star and they made me a monster.” And sure, these are explanations of how Future’s music has slowly evolved into something a little weirder, a little more polished, a little more sure of itself. If I had the money and time, I would buy a thousand copies and stand in the middle of the street giving them out to strangers.Īlso Read Music Midtown Festival Canceled Due to Georgia Gun Ruling Future is an enigma stuffed in a double-cup of mystery.ĭirty Sprite 2 is a tremendous compendium of everything you want from a Future album in 2015: alien scream-rap anthems (bonus track “F-k Up Some Commas,” “I Serve the Base,” “Groupies”), hypnotic anti-pop (“Stick Talk,” “Rotation”), and the sort of dramatic tracks that seem tailor-made for imagining yourself looking cool while doing stuff in slow motion (“Slave Master,” “Rich $ex,” “Blood on the Money,” “The Percocet & Stripper Joint”). Maybe he just rapped it because it sounded cool, and he doesn’t know why he said it either. Or he could be too lazy to get fully naked.
The footwear could signify him running through women in the most efficiently flagrant manner possible. However, there is (at least) one man who f-ks while wearing shoes: “I just f-ked your bitch in some Gucci flip-flops” is literally the first thing Future says on “Thought It Was a Drought,” the opening song of his egregiously good new Dirty Sprite 2, one of those albums that, for a large swath of rap fans, seems destined to be hogtied to the summer of 2015. It barely registers as sexual nude-plus-shoes is totally the domain of the British guy streaking across the pitch of a soccer stadium being chased by security, Keystone Cops-style. The mental image of someone nude, except for their sandals, is absurd. Nobody has ever gotten laid by announcing that they were going to wear shoes while f-king.
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