LET’S TALK ABOUT THE FUTURE

Future is our celebrity profiling of the day. His real name is Nayvadius DeMun Wilburn and he is an American rapper, singer, and record producer from the Kirkwood neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia.

HIS EARLY LIFE

Future was born in Atlanta, Georgia on the 20th of November, 1983 and is of Haitian descent. His stage name came about after members of the musical collective The Dungeon Family called him “The Future”. His first cousin, producer Rico Wade of the Dungeon Family, encouraged him to sharpen his writing skills and pursue a career as a rapper. He attended Columbia High School.

He voices his praise of Wade’s musical influence and instruction, calling him the “mastermind” behind his sound. He soon came under the wing of Atlanta’s own Rocko who signed him to his label A-1 Recordings. Since then his work ethic has driven him to his success. From 2010 to early 2011, Future released a series of mixtapes including 1000, Dirty Sprite and True Story. The latter included the single “Tony Montana”, in reference to the Scarface film. During this time, Future also partnered with Gucci Mane on the Free Bricks collaborative album and wrote YC’s single “Racks”.

HIS CAREER

Future’s career took a great turn in 2011 as he signed a major label deal with Epic Records in September 2011, days before the release of his next mixtape, Streetz Calling. The mixtape was described by XXL magazine as ranging from “simple and soundly executed boasts” to “futuristic drinking and drugging jams” to “tales of the grind.” A Pitchfork review remarked that on the mixtape he 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.”

Before his album being released in April 2012. 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 him, it’s apparent that he’s poised to continue the buzz of 2011 humming right along into 2012.” Future was selected to the annual XXL Freshmen list in early 2012.

His debut album Pluto, originally planned for January, was eventually released on April 17. It included remixes of “Tony Montana” featuring Drake and “Magic” featuring T.I.. According to him, “‘Magic’ was the first record T.I. jumped on when he came outta jail. Like, he was out of jail a day and he jumped straight on the ‘Magic’ record without me even knowing about it.” The track became Future’s first single to enter the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Other collaborators on the album include Trae Tha Truth, R. Kelly and Snoop Dogg. On October 8, 2012, Pusha T released “Pain” featuring Future, the first single from his upcoming debut album.It was announced that Future will be repackaging his debut album Pluto on November 27, 2012 under the name Pluto 3D featuring 3 new songs & 2 remix songs including the remix for “Same Damn Time” featuring Diddy & Ludacris, as well as his newest street single “Neva End (Remix)” featuring Kelly Rowland. In 2012, Future wrote, produced and was featured on “Loveeeeeee Song” taken from Barbadian singer Rihanna’s seventh studio album Unapologetic.

HIS SECOND ALBUM, HONEST

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. Future said of his second studio album Future Hendrix it will be a more substantive musical affair than his debut album and will feature R&B music along with his usual “street bangers”. The album was to be released in 2013. The album will feature Kanye West, Rihanna, Ciara, Drake, Kelly Rowland, Jeremih, Diplo, and Andre 3000, among others.

The album’s lead single, “Karate Chop” featuring Casino, premiered on January 25, 2013 and was sent to urban radio on January 29, 2013. The song is produced by Metro Boomin. The official remix, which features Lil Wayne, was sent radio and was released on iTunes on February 19, 2013. On August 7, 2013, Future changed the title of his second album from Future Hendrix to Honest and announced that it would be released on November 26, 2013.

It was later revealed that the album would be pushed back to April 22, 2014, as it was said that Future has tour dates with Drake on Would You Like A Tour?. In December 2013, it was announced that Future would make a guest appearance on Kat Dahlia’s upcoming debut, My Garden.

HIS RAP STYLE

Future uses Auto-Tune in his songs. Rapper T-Pain, who also uses that audio processor, criticised Future, stating that the later doesn’t know how to use it correctly. After that announcement he stated in an interview;

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.

Listen to his song, I won featuring Kanye West;

HIS PERSONAL LIFE

Nayvadius has fathered four children with four different women: Jessica Smith, Brittni Mealy, India J, and singer Ciara. Future and Ciara were engaged in October 2013, but called off the engagement in August 2014.

And that was Future, the auto-tune hip hop artiste. For more info visit his site here

If you notice things easily you’ll see that Future is a November-born and most of my profiling are on November-borns, also mostly Scorpios. I don’t do it purposely but as we can all see my heart moves in play with people like me, AWESOME FOLKS of the Scorpio star of November.

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