After almost two years, Future has released his sophomore album “Honest,” and easily regains his spot within the upper echelon of the hip hop game. There is a little of something for everybody in this album. The super team of Future with executive producer Mike WiLL Made It make Honest a real contender for best hip hop album.
Future announced his sophomore album in which he had titled as Future Hendrix all the way back in 2012. Ever since his announcement the anticipation has grown for its release as soon as possible. Future was going for an all R&B album at first but once he recorded the track, “Sh!t,” he changed the whole vision for the album. He pushed the album back from November 2013 to April 2014 and changes the name to “Honest.”
When you combine the always changing rhythm of Future’s rap with the likes of Wiz Khalifa, Drake, Kanye West, and Pusha T, your ears better be ready to get an explosion of hard hitting beats and an impressive series of hooks and flows.
The best track on the album is “Sh!t,” Future goes at it alone and lyrically tells every fake rapper and gangster that they aren’t worth, well, Sh!t. I think you get the point. I always find it impressive nowadays when an artist can do a song solo and still be able to make it fresh for all the verses in a song. Most artists only have one good 16 in them per track, but that is not the case with Future.
Lil Wayne makes an appearance on the track “Karate Chop” and despite his heavily auto tuned voice, he still finds a way to use a play on words to fit. With Future’s references to John Gotti and Al Capone you can easily tell that this song is not about karate.
“Honest” does have only hard hitting rap songs. “Never Satisfied” is a slow R&B track featuring Drake and then there is “I Won” featuring Kanye West, both of these tracks are heavily influenced from the beat to the writing by the artist feature with Future. “I Won” is filled with samples and 808 drums and “Never Satisfied” has the slow melody that lends itself good to Drake’s voice.
Future will continue to be a big player but one can hope that his next album doesn’t take two years to be released. At least there is a good chance it would be worth the wait if it does take that long.
5 stars