


“Not running out of music,” he was quick to clarify.

Other people probably wouldn’t have made that choice I made that choice.” But “it’s crazy to think back and listen to it sometimes, when I’ll be like, ‘Damn, I really hate the real me.’ The choices that I made, I hate I had to make those choices, but this is me. “It don’t hurt to make” a song like that, he said. To listen to Future over the years is to be richly involved in a complex emotional life, and the closing track on Beast Mode 2 last year, “Hate the Real Me,” was an especially striking example. The things that’s funny to me, or the things that I find interesting. Speaking about a documentary that accompanies the release of The Wizrd, he said, “There’s so many sides that I haven’t showed. Not to mention his standout verse on the Black Panther soundtrack single “King’s Dead,” where he lets out a squealing falsetto of Slick Rick and Juicy J references. With The Wizrd strictly under wraps prior to its release, we turned to 2018, a light year by Future’s standards: one mixtape, one joint mixtape, and the soundtrack to Superfly that he spearheaded. In the gleaming conference room-white Eames chairs, a single burning Diptyque candle-amid a flurry of press commitments for his forthcoming album, Future was eager to discuss where his wealth of material has sprung from.
