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| 3.0 good | cheapcrayon | December 15th 15 |
Future is pretty much a one-trick pony, but this was before you heard him everywhere in his 2015 stride. The first half is full of hits - "Monster", "After That", "Fuck Up Some Commas", "Throw Away". This definitely runs a bit too rlong, as things start to get repetitive & generic throughout the second half.. songs like "Gangland", "Showed Up", and others are totally forgettable. Stick around for "Codeine Crazy" at the end, though.. it's gotta be one of Future's best. Also, be prepared to be told DJ ESCO is the coolest DJ on the motherfuckin' planet about 600 times.
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| 3.5 great | Jade | January 12th 17 |
the only thing i didn't catch is who the coolest dj in the world is
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| 3.5 great | TheManMachine | January 24th 16 |
The formal unveiling of a post-breakup Future who's moved past putting blonde in his dreads and hovering in pop factions, and has sunk/risen to an ultimate in iterant mumble-chants who's insistently at the top of everything yet seemingly empty inside. An incontestably filler-ish second half manages to magnify the mechanized soullessness found woven throughout the banger-packed front half: smashin' hoes who're trying to give his dick a hickey sounds like a far cry from an activity that actually gratifies him, fuckin' up commas a vapid duty rather than exultant celebration. He's full-a spiteful nasty-nast, but also piteous enough to quash it -- the surefire example being the two-part emotional-pinnacle "Throw Away", where after blaming ex-boo Ciara for caring too much about his hoe-fucking, the 'you go your way and I'll go mine' concept is translated into thinking about each other during various lecheries with newfound lovers. His specific request? "I want you to fuck him in paradise." Monster, indeed.
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| 2.5 average | ItsMaxwell | June 11th 15 |
Of course Sputnik likes Sleepwalking Future more than Breaking the Universe in Half Future.
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| 5.0 classic | blackbird223344 | September 26th 23 |
Heaven hath no fury like Future scorned. Monster is the quintessential breakup album. On the project, Future storms through relationships, violence, drugs, and his own mind. After an incredibly public split with Ciara, he tears through the project with renewed focus, with track after track that are in the upper echelon of his catalog. The opener, Radical, is just incredible. Metro Boomins titanic synth work clashes SO well with Future's guttural vocals, creating a perfect dissonance and one of the most impressive songs on the tape. Future delivers banger after banger, with tracks like Fetti, Mad Luv, and the title track, Monster, being standouts. The synths across the board are impeccable as they constantly shift and mutate across each song, with the production being on a level not seen by many ever in their career, let alone time after time on the same album. The emotional core of the tape however, come with two tracks. Codeine Crazy and Throw Away make for two of the most incredible rap songs ever made. Throw Away especially comes off as the core of the project. Coming directly after two of the most arrogant, furious, and devious songs Future has EVER made, (Radical and Monster), the track begins like another of those songs, with misogyny, violence, and substances aplenty, but makes an abrupt shift to a far more desolate sound. The synths sounds like a robot begging for life as Future croons over this bleak landscape. He begs Ciara to sleep with other men, to simply get it over with. He bares his soul more than ever on this mixtape, making it especially special in Future's disography. Monster is Futures magnum opus, one of many projects that set him levels above your Gunnas of the world. Simply incredible.
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| 3.6 great | Erwann S. STAFF | July 13th 21 |
Future + early Metro Boomin = grimy shit, but Monster also - kinda - acts like the kickstarter for the trap craze; while the genre was already there and rockin' hard, it's with tapes like that the genre took the mainstream: dark and diversified beats, vulnerable lyrics with an enraged delivery - truly, Future is pissed, and acts as the record's main rage purveyor.
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| 3.0 good | Bedex | July 15th 20 |
Ok this is his best so far, but feels a bit overrated. One thing is that Future himself
hardly ever fails here; unlike in prior records where his delivery could ruin a track as
much as the instrumentals themselves, here it is nearly exclusively the latter. This one
has quite an identity with lots of synths and emotional tracks, so it works relatively well
as an album. There is a bit too much happening at once in the album intro, but the track
unfolds quite fatly (lel) although a bit slow to my taste. 2 has great delivery and the
flute part is dope, but there also are mario galaxy sounds breaking the deal. 3 is synthy
and kinda cool, not super aggressive, but after a lovely midtrack bridge the second half of
the song reveals itself as one of Future's best sections yet, sort of ambient trap. I dig.
4 is back to gangsta aesthetics and could be a jam if it weren't for some ludicrous backing
skrrt. Lil Wayne's feat is really good. 5-6 are a bit flat and a bit forgettable but not
bad I guess. 7 like 4 is fat but ruined by backing vocals. 8's a bit dumb and the weakest
track at that point. 9 is cool with a sort of bare piano instrumental that fits his
delivery surprisingly well. Future works quite well on intimate tracks like these. 10 is
kinda cool with its horrorsynth and delivery again, but idk if I'd call it a strong track.
11-12 are weak again, kinda simplistic and youtubey, before 13 closes nicely on a top tier
Future track, great especially when he drops the autotune albeit not perfect. Edit: welp
apparently I heard the 2019 version on spotify. 3.2
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| 4.0 excellent | hal qaeda | October 18th 17 |
I JUST TOOK A BITCH TO EAT AT CHIPOTLE r
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| 3.0 good | DarthHideous1 | March 16th 15 |
pour that bubbly, pour that bubbly, pour that bubbly drink that muddy drink
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| 4.0 excellent | JeetJeet | February 29th 24 |
| 3.0 good | Henry | October 28th 23 |
| 3.5 great | DJD1ed | January 9th 23 |
| 3.5 great | ARDCWE | July 19th 22 |
| 4.5 superb | Qualeen | February 19th 22 |
| 3.5 great | Gillie | March 5th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Weyo | December 30th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | Emily | December 18th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | bbgames | October 29th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Torii | May 15th 19 |
| 3.5 great | Runeii | January 18th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ryus | August 7th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jordan | July 9th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | RFO13 | March 30th 18 |
| 2.5 average | Kurisu | September 16th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jacket | July 14th 17 |
| 3.0 good | adr | June 17th 17 |
| 2.5 average | gordy | June 7th 17 |
| 3.0 good | Elys | March 11th 17 |
| 3.0 good | Krisa | December 31st 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | iGuter | November 30th 16 |
| 3.5 great | Nrdrk | November 23rd 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | 1017C | November 17th 16 |
| 4.5 superb | Brandon | October 21st 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Tom Read CONTRIBUTOR | September 12th 16 |
| 3.0 good | CAFSF | April 16th 16 |
| 3.5 great | Kureo | April 6th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | 108Mics | January 27th 16 |
| 3.3 great | Jordan M. EMERITUS | January 19th 16 |
| 4.5 superb | Drifts | January 19th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | TBH717 | January 16th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | corzeske | November 24th 15 |
| 3.5 great | qwe3 | October 18th 15 |
| 2.5 average | Tupik | September 11th 15 |
| 2.5 average | carved | July 23rd 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Narshh | July 21st 15 |
| 4.5 superb | Fort23 | April 29th 15 |
| 3.5 great | slaps | March 22nd 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Filling | December 13th 14 |
| 3.5 great | Surette | November 19th 14 |
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