Even back when he was not yet one of trap's brightest faces, Nayvadius Cash, better known as Future, was crafting pretty enjoyable and entertaining trap, being the next in line in the Atlanta hip-hop scene (parallel to Young Thug) to explode in a fury of hard-hitting beats and intense charisma after the likes of Jeezy, Flocka, and Migos. His debut mixtape, 1000, establishes that Future had a good idea of what he wanted his sound to be. That being said, it does sound different from his most recent and popular output. His voice isn't as charmingly drenched in auto tune, rarely does he venture to lower octaves vocally, and the production is more upbeat, in stark contrast to a record like Dirty Sprite 2. He doesn't seem as nonchalant and disillusioned, but fits the production well by being upstart and upbeat himself. In this sense, he was still yet to come into his own, which results in an entertaining, but nowhere near original, mixtape.
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