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Future
Future in 2019
Born
Nayvadius DeMun Wilburn[1]

(1983-11-20) November 20, 1983 (age 41)
Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Other names
Education
Columbia High School
Occupations
  • Rapper
  • singer
  • songwriter
  • record producer
Years active2003–present
Works
Children7
RelativesRico Wade (cousin)[5]
AwardsFull list
Musical career
Genres
Labels
Formerly ofDungeon Family
Websitefuturefreebandz.com
Websitefreebandz.com
Signature

Nayvadius DeMun Cash[8] (né Wilburn; born November 20, 1983), known professionally as Future, is an American rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer. Known for his mumble-styled vocals and prolific output, Future is credited with having pioneered the use of Auto-Tuned melodies in hip-hop and trap music.[9][10][11] Due to the sustained popularity of this musical style, he is commonly regarded as one of the most influential rappers of his generation.[12]

Born and raised in

A1 Recordings in 2011, which entered a joint venture with Epic Records shortly after. His first two studio albums, Pluto (2012) and Honest (2014), were both met with critical and commercial success, spawning the platinum-certified singles "Turn On the Lights", "Honest", "Move That Dope" (featuring Pharrell Williams and Pusha T), and "I Won" (featuring Kanye West). His subsequent albums have each debuted atop the US Billboard 200; his third and fourth, DS2 (2015) and Evol (2016), were supported by the singles "Where Ya At" (featuring Drake) and "Low Life" (featuring the Weeknd), respectively. Future's eponymous fifth album and its follow-up, Hndrxx (both 2017) made him the first musical act to release two chart-topping projects on the Billboard 200 in consecutive weeks—the former spawned his first Billboard Hot 100-top ten single, "Mask Off
."

After departing A1, Future released the albums

Best Melodic Rap Performance, while its parent album received a nomination for Best Rap Album. His two collaborative albums with record producer Metro Boomin—We Don't Trust You and We Still Don't Trust You (both 2024)—continued his string of number-one projects on the Billboard 200; the former spawned his third Billboard Hot 100-number one single, "Like That" (with Metro Boomin and Kendrick Lamar); which became his first Hot-100 leader to lead for multiple weeks. Future then released Mixtape Pluto
(2024), his seventeenth mixtape which caused him to become the first hip-hop artist to have three number one albums in the same year, and in less than six months.

Future has released the

Grammy Awards
from a total of fifteen nominations.

Early life and career beginnings

Nayvadius DeMun Wilburn

Columbia High School in Decatur. At age sixteen (c. 1999/2000), Future describes getting shot in the hand and robbed, an event he regards as a major turning point in his life.[18]

Future began his career under the name "Meathead", as a member of the Georgia-based musical collective

Blueberry Yum Yum" for rapper Ludacris
in 2004.

Wade encouraged him to sharpen his writing skills and pursue a career as a rapper, as recording would create temporary respite from street life.

A1 Recordings record label.[28]

From 2010 to early 2011, Future released a series of mixtapes including 1000, Dirty Sprite and True Story.

Free Bricks
.

Career

2011–2014: Pluto and Honest

Main articles: Pluto (Future album) and Honest (Future album)

Future signed a major label

Pitchfork review remarked that on the mixtape Future comes "as close as anyone to perfecting this thread of ringtone pop, where singing and rapping are practically the same thing, and conversing 100% through Auto-Tune doesn't mean you still can't talk about how you used to sell drugs. It would almost feel antiquated if Future weren't amassing hits, or if he weren't bringing some subtle new dimensions to the micro-genre."[30]

Future performing in 2014

Though Future had told

The FADER.[36][37][38] XXL's Troy Mathews wrote, "While Astronaut Status is up and down and never really hits the highs like 'Racks', 'Tony Montana', and 'Magic' that fans have come to expect from Future, it's apparent that he's poised to continue the buzz of 2011 humming right along into 2012."[39] Future was selected to the annual XXL Freshmen list in early 2012.[40]

His debut album

RIAA and spawned a remix featuring Lil Wayne.[44] Other collaborators on the album include Trae tha Truth, R. Kelly and Snoop Dogg.[45] On October 8, 2012, Future would perform the hook for Pusha T's single "Pain", which preceded his 2013 debut studio album My Name Is My Name
.

It was announced that Future would be repackaging his debut album Pluto on November 27, 2012, under the name Pluto 3D, featuring 3 new songs and 2 remix songs, including the remix for "Same Damn Time" featuring Diddy and Ludacris, as well as his single "Neva End (Remix)" featuring Kelly Rowland.[46] In November 2012, Future wrote, produced, and co-performed with Barbadian singer Rihanna on "Loveeeeeee Song", from the singers seventh studio album, Unapologetic.

On January 15, 2013, Future released the compilation mixtape F.B.G.: The Movie which features the artists signed to his Freebandz label: Young Scooter, Slice9, Casino, Mexico Rann and Maceo. It was certified platinum for having over 250,000 downloads on popular mixtape site DatPiff.[47] Future said of his second studio album Future Hendrix it will be a more substantive musical affair than his debut album and features R&B music along with his usual "street bangers". The album was to be released in 2013.[48] The album featured his then-fiancée Ciara, as well as other high-profile artists including Kanye West, Drake, Kelly Rowland, Wiz Khalifa, and André 3000, among others.[49]

The album's lead single, "

Pharrell and Pusha T and "I Won" featuring Kanye West; "Honest" peaked at number 55 on the Hot 100. Upon release, the album was received generally positively and peaked at number 2 on the Billboard 200. During this time, Future also made a slew of guest appearances on hit songs including Lil Wayne's 2013 hit single "Love Me", Rocko's single "U.O.E.N.O." the same year, and DJ Khaled's 2014 single "Hold You Down". The former became his first top-10 entry on the Hot 100 and received diamond
certification from the RIAA.

2015–2017: DS2, Evol, Future, and Hndrxx

Main articles: DS2 (album), Evol (Future album), Future (Future album), and Hndrxx
Future performing on the Summer Sixteen tour in 2016

Future released

We The Best.[57] In 2016, Future became the fastest artist to chart three number-one albums on the Billboard 200 since Glee soundtrack albums in 2010.[58]

On June 29, 2016, he appeared in an issue of

Billboard Hot 100 and was Future's eighth top 20 hit.[citation needed
]

2018–2019: Superfly, Wrld on Drugs, and The Wizrd

Main articles: Superfly (soundtrack), Wrld on Drugs, and The Wizrd
Future in 2019

On January 11, 2018, Future collaborated alongside

Wrld On Drugs, a collaborative mixtape with fellow American rapper Juice Wrld.[64] Wrld on Drugs debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 behind A Star Is Born by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, with 98,000 album-equivalent units, which included 8,000 pure album sales.[65] It became Future's tenth top-ten album in the United States, and Juice Wrld's second.[65]

On January 18, 2019, Future released his seventh studio album,

soundtrack album of the Marvel Studios superhero film Black Panther.[70]
On June 7, 2019, Future released his second project of the year, his debut solo EP titled Save Me.[71] Save Me received mixed reviews from music critics and debuted at number 5 on the US Billboard 200.[72]

Metro Boomin, Future's frequent collaborator, in 2023

2020–2021: High Off Life and Pluto x Baby Pluto

Main articles:
Pluto x Baby Pluto

On January 10, 2020, Future released the third single for his then upcoming seventh studio album: "Life Is Good", which features Drake; the song peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100, and eventually was the highest charting song off the album.[73] On February 15, 2020, Future released an official remix of his song "Life Is Good", the remix kept Drake’s feature—and added new verses from DaBaby and Lil Baby.[74] On May 1, 2020, Future guest appeared on Drake’s sixth mixtape Dark Lane Demo Tapes; on the mixtape—Future appeared on the tracks "Desires",[75] and "D4L" alongside Young Thug. Both tracks charted within the top-30 of the Billboard Hot 100.[76] On April 1, 2020, Future released the fourth single for his then upcoming album, "Tycoon"—the song debuted and peaked at number 76 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Later that month (April), Future announced his eighth studio album, at the time titled Life Is Good;[77] The title was later changed to High Off Life and the album was released on May 15, 2020.[78] The album became Future’s seventh consecutive number one album, debuting at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart with 153,000 album-equivalent units in its first week.[79] The album sales week also became Future’s largest week since 2015, when his third album DS2 debuted atop the chart with 151,000 album-equivalent units.[80] On May 26, 2020, Future released the ninth track from High Off Life as a single, becoming the albums fifth and final single—the track being "Trillionaire", which features YoungBoy Never Broke Again.[81]

On July 21, 2020, Future and fellow rapper

Pluto x Baby Pluto, which was both artists second project of the year; the album debuted and peaked at number two on the US Billboard 200 with 105,000 album-equivalent units.[86] The album was blocked from the number-one spot by AC/DC’s album Power Up—which debuted atop with around 12,000 more units (117,000 units).[86][87][88]

Throughout 2020, Future guest appeared on many songs, all of which either performed well on music charts, or didn’t chart. Future was featured on "Big Drip" by Ufo361 on January 17, 2020[89]—"Dead Man Walking" by 2 Chainz also on January 17, 2020[90][91]—"1st n 3rd" alongside Lil Baby by Marlo on January 23, 2020[92][93]—"Happiness Over Everything (H.O.E.)" alongside Miguel by Jhené Aiko on February 26, 2020[94]—"What It Was" by Lil Gotit on June 26, 2020[95]—"Rari" by Octavian on July 27, 2020[96]—"Thrusting" alongside Swae Lee by Internet Money on August 21, 2020[97]—"Gucci Bucket Hat" with Pap Chanel featuring Herion Young on October 20, 2020[98]—and many other features.[99]

On March 26, 2021, Future collaborated with rapper Moneybagg Yo to release the single "Hard for the Next", which became the second single from Moneybagg Yo's fourth studio album: A Gangsta's Pain.[100][101][102] On May 28, 2021, Future collaborated with Hotboii to release the non-album single "Nobody Special."[103][104][105] On September 24, 2021, Future collaborated with rapper Gunna to release the single "Too Easy", which happened to be the lead single from Gunna's at-the-time upcoming third studio album: DS4Ever; the song charted in the top-twenty of the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.[106][107][108][109] On December 15, 2021, Future collaborated with rapper Rvssian to release the non-album single "M&M", which also features vocals from Lil Baby.[110][111] Throughout 2021, Future appeared on many songs as a featured artist, most notably—he broke the record for the most Billboard Hot 100 entries (125) until a number-one song was captured, he earned his first number-one with his feature alongside Young Thug on Drake's single "Way 2 Sexy", which debuted in the Hot 100's number one position.[112][113][114][115]

2022–present: I Never Liked You, We Don't Trust You, We Still Don't Trust You, and Mixtape Pluto

Main articles: I Never Liked You (album), We Don't Trust You, We Still Don't Trust You, and Mixtape Pluto

On February 11, 2022, Future released his first solo single in over a year, "Worst Day", which happened to appear on the deluxe edition of his at-the-time upcoming ninth studio album.[116][117][118] On April 20, 2022, Future was named the "best rapper alive" by GQ.[12] Then on April 22, 2022, Future and record producer Southside released the collaborative single "Hold That Heat", which features rapper Travis Scott.[119][120][121] On April 29, 2022, Future released his ninth studio album I Never Liked You after it was previously announced earlier that month.[122][123] The album was a commercial success, becoming his eighth number one album and debuting atop the Billboard 200 chart—moving 222,000 album-equivalent units in its first week, becoming Future's largest sales week by album-equivalent units.[124]

I Never Liked You notably spawned four simultaneous top-ten entries on the

712PM" (at No. 8), and "I'm Dat Nigga" (at No. 10). All sixteen tracks from the album debuted on the Hot 100; as well as two additional tracks charted by Future, causing him to have 18 simultaneous entries that week.[125][126] On May 3, 2022, Future released the seventh track from his ninth studio album I Never Liked You as a single, "Wait for U", which features Drake and Tems—the track previously became Future's second number one single on the Billboard Hot 100, Drake's tenth, and Tems' first.[127][128] On May 6, 2022, Future released "Keep It Burnin", the third track from I Never Liked You as a single, the track features vocals from Kanye West
.

Future released We Don't Trust You, a collaborative album with Metro Boomin, on March 22, 2024. The duo then released the sequel album, We Still Don't Trust You, exactly three weeks later on April 12, 2024.[129] On September 2, 2024, he confirmed the release of his seventeenth mixtape Mixtape Pluto.[130]

In this early 2025. Future featured in the song Fxck Up the World from AlterEgo, the first studio album of the Thai rapper Lisa

Musical style

Future's music has been characterized as

LA Times wrote in 2016 that "Future's highly processed vocals suggest a man driven to bleary desperation by drugs or love or technology", stating that his music "comes closest to conjuring the numbing overstimulation of our time".[133] GQ stated in 2014 that he "has managed to reboot the tired auto-tune sound and mash it into something entirely new", writing that he "combines it with a bizarro croon to synthesize how he feels, then [...] stretches and deteriorates his words until they're less like words, more like raw energy and reactive emotions".[134] Critic Simon Reynolds wrote in 2018 that "he's reinvented blues for the 21st century."[135]

American singer and rapper T-Pain, who also uses that audio processor, criticized Future's unconventional use of it in 2014.[136] In response, Future stated in an interview that "when I first used Auto-Tune, I never used it to sing. I wasn't using it the way T-Pain was. I used it to rap because it makes my voice sound grittier. Now everybody wants to rap in Auto-Tune. Future's not everybody."[137] Due to the sustained contemporary popularity of his musical style, he is commonly regarded as one of the most influential rappers of his generation.[12]

Personal life

Future is the unmarried father of seven children by his account, each with different women, although another child's paternity has been litigated.[138][139] He has also adopted the son of one of the mothers of his daughter. In October 2013, Future was engaged to Ciara, who is the mother of one of his sons, but she ended the engagement in August 2014 due to his infidelity.[140]

Future is a

Christian, and has publicly acknowledged his faith on multiple accounts.[141][142] Throughout his music career, Future has made references to God and Jesus with his music, whilst being open about the role of faith in his life and childhood.[141]

In 2016, Future was sued by both Jessica Smith and Ciara. Smith sued him for failing to pay

libel.[144] In October 2016, a judge said that Future's string of tweets bashing Ciara did not relate to the $15 million she was asking for.[145] In 2019, two women from Florida and Texas respectively filed paternity suits claiming that Future was the father of their respective daughter and son.[146] In 2020, the Texas woman dropped her paternity suit.[147]

Discography

Main articles: Future albums discography and Future singles discography
See also: Future videography
Studio albums
Collaborative albums

Tours

Headlining

Co–headlining

Awards and nominations

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Future

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