Jan 16, 2016

Show your appreciation for one of Future's best projects to date:

I get that Future is on a new level ( c: ) with the introspective theme in his newest projects, but his classic astronaut music has its own strengths that should be appreciated more. He just doesn't make tracks of pure fun like Pop Them Bandz, Splashin, I Got Yo b---- or Pajamas anymore. He was also wayy more versatile with his flows before, and didn't stick to triplet variations on every single track.

To get started:

• What do you like about it?
• What is your favorite track from the project?
• Where would you rank it in his discography?

 

Jan 16, 2016

Future Hendrix Dirty Sprite legendary

 

Jan 16, 2016

I would rank it near the bottom of his discography, though. I love it, but it's kinda just a less polished Astronaut Status

 

Jan 16, 2016

I think they're really different, Astronaut Status is pure retro-futurism soundscape while Dirty Sprite sounds like some late 2000's trance club soundscape. It's also more fun and not that serious.

I like it more than Astronaut Status, I might even go as far as to put it in 4th after Monster, Honest & Beast Mode.

 

Jan 16, 2016

Honest is top 3 for you? I'm a huge Honest apologist and I wouldn't do that

 

Jan 16, 2016

I never really understood what people hate about honest. It's close to flawless.

 

Jan 16, 2016

The sequencing is questionable at best (Benz Friends into Blood Sweat Tears as the closer), and songs like My Momma and I Won feel forced and vacuous. Obviously songs like T-Shirt make up for it, but flawless isn't the word I'd use.

 

Jan 16, 2016

I love I Won lol, the melodramatic superficial celebration of it is what makes it great. My Momma is f---ing flames altho the Wiz verse is a bit meh.

Also I'd rather have a dynamic sequencing rather than a predictable one. Think about how stupid Groupies would sound if it was placed right after Throw Away on Monster? It would just be cliche and corny.

 

Jan 16, 2016

honestly the sequencing on honest was fine apart from one or two really awkward transitions, like for a soundscape that broad it's impressive how cohesive it is and it's at least clearly structured from track to track

 

Jan 16, 2016

Tbh My Momma might be really good, I just have a strict no Wiz Khalifa policy on all aspects of my life and haven't listened to it in like a year.

Throw Away into Groupies would be cliche, but Benz Friends into Blood Sweat Tears is just jarring. Maybe cause I think Benz Friends would've been perfect as a closer and I'm not a huge fan of Blood Sweat Tears anyway, I dunno, it just bothers me

 

Jan 16, 2016

>I just have a strict no Wiz Khalifa policy on all aspects of my life
Wtf have u listened Kush & OJ? Wiz is overhated

 

Jan 16, 2016

I always saw benz friends as like a bridge between special and blood sweat tears, like think how awkward it would special to BST would be in comparison. it's not the smoothest but it makes sense at least.

also caslon I didn't know you liked wiz

 

Jan 16, 2016

I don't I just don't see why people hate him and I love his feats on KRIT & Curren$y stuff and also whatever Wiz stuff ppl played in dub lol

I should really get into his stuff more

 

Jan 16, 2016

but yeah alongside the reasons in the OP I love some of the ways that he was using autotune on this project, like you don't really see him doing this type of stuff on his recent projects


fav song is probably yeah yeah, never been this high or much more

 

Jan 16, 2016

Also his flow on Conceited >>>>>>

 

Jan 16, 2016

I do miss the general ratchetness of DS1-era Future. Tracks like Groupies aside he isn't gritty in the same way anymore

 

Jan 17, 2016

 

Jan 17, 2016

easily a Top 3 Future project for me, might be #1 idk tbh

but i love it, and ur completely right about him being more versatile with his flows back then. i wish he would experiment a bit more flow wise these days but its cool, still dropping quality s---.

 

Jan 17, 2016

his lyrics were better back then too

 

Jan 17, 2016

I don't know about that, his lyrics has always been pretty consistent. He was definitely better with rhymes in tracks like Yeah Yeah & Old Hundreds, but his songwriting reached a new level on Honest & Monster.