The Breakfast Club - Future Interview

Episode Date: July 21, 2015

Future discusses his disappointment with his last album, hi current project and his relationship with Ciara on The Breakfast Club Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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He was on the list of people they said would never come up here. Nah, nah. They definitely said that. I'm here now. There he is. Welcome to the show. Were you avoiding us or was it just not the right time? Avoiding?

No, I wasn't avoiding. Probably wasn't the right time, I guess. We thought it was because of an introduction that Charlamagne did at MTV one time. What? Remember when you did the show Hip Hop POV? Man, I'm still here. Your words didn't matter then. No, no, I said he makes hype songs,

but he's not a great lyricist. And your DJ was like, boy, Charlamagne, you a crazy a**hole, boy. But now's a good time to come because it's a good time to be like, well, now look at me. Nah, I was going to look at me then. I ain't never said I ain't like his music. I said he make out songs. He says whatever he said, you know what I mean?

That's all I love. Do you feel like in the beginning, though, you did have a lot of doubters that you've proved wrong? Of course, everybody always going to doubt you. But you have to overcome it. Like, it's going to be hate. It's going to be, you know what I mean? You got to get over that from the beginning. You can't let that determine your future.

And you grinded for a long time. Yeah, for a long time. Dungeon family. How long were you grinding before you actually, the masses heard you? Because it was seven, eight years? Yeah, about seven, eight years. Damn it, man. Rico Love is what, your uncle, your cousin?

Rico Wade. Rico Wade. I'm a bad man. I said your cousin? Rico Wade. Rico Wade. Damn I said love. I was like yeah you related to Rico Love too? People. Rico Wade. Yeah Rico Wade that's my cousin. Are you still signed to Rocco?

Me and Rocco do have a deal with Epic. Okay. Now that's interesting because you came up in that camp and you know a lot of the music that they was putting out with Goody Mob and OutKast was socially conscious. Were you ever in that camp and you know a lot of the music that they was putting out with goodie mob and outcast was socially conscious was you were you ever in that lane um nah i don't feel like i was over in that lane i never wanted to be in the lane of of outcast and goodie mob but most definitely i respect what they do and and i've learned a lot from them absolutely now at what point did you did god tell you he was blessing all the trap n****s man? Like when did you?

Uh man it was just me being creative and just trying to find another way to reach the people you know I'm saying by giving them something inspirational to look up to so just me like God blessing the trap you being at a radio station this is your trap. I feel like people are always when we back in the day you say say trap, you're trapped in a situation. You know what I'm saying? So I'm just adding light and making the word bigger than what it is. And so it's just like, if you're trapped in a situation, God going to bless you to get

out of it. I'm glad to hear that because I be tweeting out God blessing all the radio because I don't feel like I'm in the trap, but I understand what you're saying. Yeah. So now I can tweet trap without feeling like I'm fronting. There was a period of time that you had moved to L.A. Did you feel like you had to move back to Atlanta because you were getting away from the roots of what it is that you were doing?

Nah. I feel like, man, I was just missing family. You know what I mean? Once you do a few things and you're not comfortable with it, you just have to go back to what you're comfortable with doing and it comes to me being at home, being around my grandparents and being around my kids. Majority of my kids is in Atlanta and my family,

my brothers, my nieces, my nephews, they look up to me and it's hard when I'm out in LA, I'm spending majority of my time in LA. So I had to just come back to Atlanta. Ain't nothing like the 8-0 when your music come out. I mean, you got about... Yeah, the 8, man. We went to the 8 a couple days ago.

You got about five records in the club, man. Yeah, it's clubs. It's so many clubs. It's different vibes in Atlanta. You know what I'm saying? LA, nothing wrong with LA. It's a peaceful vibe when you go out there. I feel like you can get a lot of business done.

Now, I used to talk to DJs in Atlanta, and this one, like, the Migos and Young Thug were, like, popping, popping. I'd be like, well, what happened to Future? And they was like Future went Hollywood What DJ said that? Come on now I think it was Envy Jesus Christ man

I think it was DJ Envy Shit from Atlanta Envy ain't from no Atlanta But he ain't mean it in a bad way he was just like you moved out to LA you haven't been around in a while I wonder what he think now he probably playing your records a hundred miles per hour exactly

like man people gonna always they don't see where you going where you headed today they gonna tell you hey you doing this you doing this but they don't see

where I'm gonna be at next year it's impossible I know what I'm doing I know the work I'm putting in did you purposely choose not to do no features on none of the mixtapes

56 Nights Peace Mode Monsters because not to do no features on none of the mixtapes, 56 Nights, Peace Mode, Monsters? Yeah, because I had so many features on Unus and I dealt with so much with having features and you got to deal with so many egos and lawyers and such and such managers. You deal with like 10 other people when you deal with an artist

and you have five artists, you're dealing with 50 different people and 50 different egos and just be so much. I didn't want to go through that again. Just wanted to be all about me. What made you come back so hard with the music? Was it the response to Pluto? Cause I mean as a guy that's been listening

to your mixtapes from the beginning, I was disappointed in Pluto. I love I deserve it. I told him yesterday on Pluto, I wasn't disappointed with Pluto, but I knew I could've did it a different way. It sounded like the label made you do that album. Like, hey, do these songs.

Yeah, like, it wasn't even the label because I feel like at the end of the day, like right now, I'm not taking no advice. I did take advice before, you know what I'm saying? But you don't cross them

over a lot though. Yeah, Turn On The Lights, it could have waited. Turn On The Lights was a big record. It was the number one record. Never End was good for me

but I feel like I could have waited to the next album after that and introduced them to Turn On The Lights and Never End because they was going to be hits anyway whenever they came out right same damn time was already on the radio magic was going top 10 Tony Montana was on the radio just had came off you know I'm saying like I had been put out the mixtapes so going into Pluto instead of having a parachute or a song like that it supposed to be with another street record right

you know I'm saying so a lot of records that was commercial That I'm trying to chase that lane It's just I was doing it taking advice Thinking this is the way I need to get it This is the way I need to do to have success When you probably just want to do it your own way So you'll be more comfortable you can wake up Feel good about it at the end of the day that you made all the right decisions

But of course you're over to a market that Might not have known But I had to come back I feel like a new artist right now. Yeah, it's not like that street love, man. Yeah, everything that I went through, it prepared me for what I'm going through now. But I had to take a step back. Like I had to go back to mixtapes.

After you drop albums, you plan on never dropping a mixtape again. Right. Supposed to keep going, you know what I'm saying? But I had to come back, drop the monster, Beast Mode, 56 Nights, and now I'm back on track with Dropping Dirty Sprite 2.

Now, is this a mixtape or is this an album? It's an album. We were confused, okay. Did it start off as a mixtape or you just... No, it never started off a mixtape. I wanted people to feel like it was a mixtape. So Drake is the only feature you have on this mixtape. Were there other people who you considered

but they didn't make the cut or you consciously said, me and Drake, that's my brother, I'm putting only Drake on here? I wasn't planning on having any features. He called the day i was about to turn the album in i was like i gotta turn the album in in the morning like man dirty sprite too as legend i love dirty sprite the first dirty sprite i want to be a part of this i was like man dope do the verse tonight i'm gonna send the song over he was like man done and he's part of that sprite campaign too it makes sense

did you was there a problem with using the name Sprite? As far as the name Sprite, we just put DS2, so it's not going to say Sprite on the package. Once Sprite find out what's actually in the Sprite. We had a conversation with them. Actually, my manager, he had a conversation with them about it. They was cool with it, but they was just like, man, we can't promote dirty Sprite.

You should tell them don't knock it till you try it. Go up to the Sprite office and throw Methazine and Codeine. We got to find a way, but I got my drink deal coming on the way. Now, how do you... We're going to do this spinoff. What's the drink going to be? A soda pop? Yeah, it's going to be like an energy drink. It's going to put you to sleep. It's going to give you energy. Now, how did you and Drake resolve your issues? Because you made the, well, they said the comments were taken out of context. Yeah, yeah. It was taken out of context.

The comments to Billboard about Drake's music doesn't make people feel the same way yours does. I say he make hits. I didn't say that his music didn't make people feel the same way. My music make people feel. But at the same time, man, we resolved the issue. We way past that. Yeah, you're back on the road with each other now. Yeah, back on the road, back doing music,

shooting videos, OVO Fest on the way. But shouldn't it be that kind of friendly competition? Shouldn't you feel like, yeah, I make better music than you, and he should feel like he make better than you? It should be that kind of competition. At the end of the day, man, I feel like what you talk, what me and him sit down and have a conversation about, that's the only thing that we're already always worry about you know I'm saying

when you try to get in these interviews and you speak on a person they can't speak back for they self why you write that in there's no need to talk about true do you feel like a lot of artists took your sound because I'm hearing a future a lot of future ish sounds and I don't think they took my sound like they didn't take it I probably inspired i was in i was an inspiration that's a polite way to put it you're talking about fetty wap fetty wap definitely that wasn't talking about him but i like freddie i like freddie i like freddie but i always say i feel like the future i probably inspired him i'm not for sure i never talked to 50

about a day in my life are you a your dreads are real? Your dreads are real, right? I'm just asking, man. Yeah, my dreads are real. My dreads are real, 100%. Now, what's making you open up now as far as interviews and stuff? Because at one point you couldn't find a future interview. Man, I never wanted to do interviews. Even during this interview, I was like, man, I'm doing only the Breakfast

Club and I'm doing one more interview. So whatever y'all want to do it's like man let's do breakfast club i'm like i'm with it but i'm not doing a bunch of interviews and every interview i walk in asking me the same questions i'm not doing that it's like i've been doing these mixtapes without doing any interviews and i'm doing great don't you feel like a lot of times a lot in the interviews right you did like a long interview with Huffington Post Live it was like 40 minutes long I watched the whole thing

but all the headlines are like Yucha talks about Ciara and why they broke up and how they prayed after sex and it's like

that's the headline but what about everything else exactly that's why I don't even want to talk about it because why y'all even bring it up

y'all knew these people was going to say this and you already anticipate that. Yeah, I anticipated it, but I just wanted to speak on my side. It was my side of the story. Now I'm over it after I spoke my side because she wasn't telling the side.

She was just letting it go along. Whatever the people thought about me, she wasn't saying, hey, don't say that about him. Yeah, they called you a cheater. When people come together as a couple, when you separate, y'all put out a statement saying, let us live our respectable lives. Don't leave us alone. We went our separate ways because of issues that we had, and we want everybody to keep our privacy.

Like he cheated. Yeah, like she just went along with the cheating rumors and never said anything. Like issue a statement saying leave our personal life alone and I wouldn't have to say anything about it. Well, I feel like a statement you issued, I don't know, I could be wrong. The song Throwaway.

The second half of that song, was that record about Ciara? No, it wasn't. It was about any girl that feel like that's what it's all about. If it's about... Go on, get it over with. Just get it over with because that's what it's like. If it's about any... I'm not that's what it's all about. If it's about. Go on, get it over with. Just get it over with. Because that's what it's like. If it's about any.

I'm not worried about. Now, Charlamagne has a theory about Ciara. Well, the future, actually, you tweeted out a couple of weeks ago. You said you got that curse up off you. And now you back like you never left. So I feel like Ciara may be cursed. Because you look at what happened with Amari Stoudemire, Bow Wow, 50 Music even fell off a little bit. I'm back.

I guess you got to have a baby or something right now to knock the curse on her. I'm back. I ain't thinking about her, man. I swear, man, I'm not thinking about her. I want her to be totally happy. You got to understand you want a person to be happy. You have an ex-girlfriend that you had, but you want her to be happy. You're going to still be bitter because she moved on.

I'm not bitter. People think I'm bitter because she moved on. I'm good. I'm taking care of me. I don't need him. She need him. Yeah, yeah. Now, was it true when you put a gun emoji with a football emoji?

No. You saw him pushing your baby car. Nah, man. I didn't do that, but they thought I did it. I wouldn't do something like that. I think Chango ain't die himself like that, is he? But if you see another man pushing your baby car, it might make you feel away a little bit. It'll make me feel away.

It'll make you feel away, but it wouldn't go to the point where I'm going to put some emojis on a Facebook. It was a fake Facebook page. They put it on media media she even thought it was real she got lawyers start calling about that no man everything it got serious you know I'm saying for something that I wouldn't even do like of course I wouldn't want somebody to push my son like that's the number one rule like I agree if I was a kid and my mama had a dude pushing me, I would have jumped out the stroller and slapped the shit out of her. I agree. I felt the same way. You never do that in our community.

No. You don't even bring a man around your son. You don't even know this dude for a few months, and you bring him around your kid. Who does that? Nobody does that. As a man, he shouldn't do that. He should be like, nah, I'm not doing that.

But he probably didn't know that she set him up. You got nannies. You got assistants around you. Anybody could have pushed the scroller. You let them people catch that photo because you know what it is. But at the end of the day, I'm not for the publicity stunts. Leave my son out of all the publicity stunts. Just leave him out of your relationship because we don't need your relationship for anything.

I can take care of him on my own. Right. Without any help. I don't need no help taking care of my son. Is that one of the reasons the relationship didn't work because of all the paparazzi? I wouldn't say the paparazzi. It's just I do my thing a different kind of way. You move like a

drug dealer, Future. People still play same thing. Oh, man. That's a touchy situation. You make legal money now, Future. It's okay now. It's okay, man. Yeah, but man, you got to stick to your roots, man.

What you know? This is what I know. I know the streets. I don't know about the proper mindset. Now, out of Zaytoven, Metro Boomin, 808 Mafia, Mike Will Made It, who do you think brings out the best in the future?

The best, man, that's hard. Because at times, Mike Will. Mike Will Made It will die for you, man. Absolutely. I would see y'all hanging out together, too. He talks about you like you and Gucci. That's my brother. Cuz at times Might will make will made it will die for you man That's my brother Forever forever man might will we got history we communicate on the dirty sprite. He not on the album, but we have something planned You know I'm saying man might we're great friends And so him bringing something out of me at times is a great a great saying to say it's not bad to say

but um Metro he do inspire me and 808 Mafia they inspire me also now now with Mike does he get I mean I'm sure he don't get upset because that's your man but out of loyalty do you feel like I gotta have him on just even if it I just gotta have him on the record you know he understood he understood I told him man we we built something great we gotta we gotta continue to build on that he got Ray Sherman he got his own record label when we started

he didn't have a record label it was just me and him he come to my sessions he'd probably give a beat to me or Gucci and that's the only people he probably was working with at that time

when I first was coming up then he started spreading out he go to Miley Cyrus he executive produced Miley album he executive produced my album so we good

in business we good our friendship is great now he didn't fit executive producer of my album. He's the executive producer of my album. So we good. In business, we good. Our friendship is great. Now, he didn't fit the sound of this album? I just wanted to go another direction. Got you. And he's not super busy, too, I'm sure. Yeah, he's super, super busy. It's like we can't get in the studio for a week straight because he has obligations that

he has to attend. Now, how much do album sales matter to you? Like you said before, your mixtapes do incredible, singles do incredible. Does it matter to you? Are you like, well, I need to sell this amount to feel like, you know, this is successful? I need to renegotiate my deal to feel successful.

You renegotiate your deal and get more money, that's when you're successful. Well, they have to do it this time around. But isn't it hard to renegotiate your deal with these labels because they don't really got a gauge on what's going on in the street. You know what I'm saying? But I'm a writer, so I pretty much set the trend.

You know what I'm saying? If I'm not writing for myself, I'm writing for another artist. So they know that. You know what I mean? They're like, man, he can write a hit. I can make a hit for me and for others. So for that reason alone, you're going to be around for a long time. What was the conversation like with you and Hov?

We saw the picture of you and Jay. No, I wasn't talking. I was at his crib. I was actually working with B, and he was there. Oh. Yeah. So it wasn't a conversation with Jay. Yeah, me and him had a dope conversation.

We actually sat down. He was like, man, I love what you're doing. Keep doing what you're doing. Man, Jay is a great dude. I always wanted to know what body part. Hold on now. You said you're working with B. Well, B got a new album coming out?

I don't know if she have a new album coming out, but as an artist, I know you want to just continue to be creative and make songs and make music. Yeah, I was going to ask that. How do you decide where songs go? You wrote Body Party, and Ciara did that song, and it was a big record. How do you decide where a song goes?

You could have gave Body Party to Beyonce at that time. At the time, I was like, man, song goes? Like you could have gave Body Party to Beyonce at that time. Or did somebody else? At the time, I was like, man, this is what she need. She need Body Party, she need that, I promise, she need that ride, she need that ride at moments. To jump her album off, she had dropped four singles and all the singles just wasn't doing anything. Then I came in and I was like, hey, Mike Will,

was like, Mike got this Body Party beat. He was like, I have a beat. Then when I heard the beat, he was like, man, I think Ciara need this beat. I was like, man, I'm working with her today. Then we did the beat, that was like, I have a beat. Then when I heard the beat, he was like, man, I think Ciara need this beat. I'm working with her today. Then we did the beat. That was the first song we ever did.

What happened after that? Did you charge her? Nah, I didn't charge her for that. You wish you had charged her now. Nah, nah, it was a great,

it was great for the both of us, man. I feel like it was a great thing for the both of us. What happened after that? Because we never heard any more music like that after that.

Did she go in a different direction? Yeah, she went a different direction. Yeah, I saw you, I like it was a great thing for the both of us. What happened after that? Because we never heard any more music like that after that. Did she go in a different direction? Yeah, she went in a different direction. Yeah, I saw you, I think it was, was it the, no, it was the, Dr. Manning. L.A. Wilson, yeah, yeah, yeah. And you said she wanted to go chase the pop lane. She just felt like she wanted to take her album

in another direction. How do you feel about dating celebrities now? Is it something that you're like, I don't want to do that again and getting mixed up with that? They have to accept me just how I am. And not try to change me. Did she try up with that? They have to accept me just how I am. And I try to change.

Did she try to change you? Did you try to change? I tried to change. In which way? We saw you front row at the fashion shows in Paris. Not front row at the Paris shows. Like, I did that. That was just a song.

That's another story. But at the same time, I feel like I just wanted to be better. I wanted to feel like I was doing something for a better cause. You know what I'm saying? You get in a relationship, and then she a superstar, so certain things are going to reflect back on her. If I'm smoking weed on my Instagram, and she's like, man, why you smoking weed?

Because it reflect on me. Has she heard your music? Has she heard it? Yeah, she heard my music. That's what I'm saying. You got to listen to the music and understand me and be like i love you how you are now with that situation like okay she said you wanted to go chase the pop lane but as her man at the time it's like no you need to listen to me not only as a peer but as your man i said it i said that as your man people don't compromise i don't know

when you in a relationship i thought it was aboutising, but it was a situation she had her own way of thinking, so I was like, cool. She sent a subtweet to you, too. She called you dishonest and ignorant. I wasn't. I don't know what I was dishonest about, but at the end of the day, man, we good, man. I'm worried about this DS2.

Here we go. Dirt is right, too. I don't want her fans talking about, man, he trying to do this for nothing, this reason or what reason I'm not doing that now have you ever had sisters I have sisters

no I mean had sex with sisters at the same time in real life two sisters real life sisters no

he said real life sisters real sisters at the same time at the same damn time it might happen one day but it haven't happened yet have you had a sister and a sister y'all haven't had sex with two sisters before At the same damn time. It might happen one day, but it hasn't happened. Yet. Have you had a sister and a sister?

I haven't had sex with two sisters before. Oh, but not at the same time, but one at a different time. Did they know about it? It was a moment. It's not Grammy. We had a moment. Wow, the moment was Grammy. You talk about the distribution and the use of drugs.

What happened to not getting high off your own supply? I never served codeine. I never served it. Good answer. Now, OG, how do you pronounce his name? Mako? That's messed up. I really don't know how to pronounce his name. Mako? Mako. Okay, OG, how do you pronounce his name? Mako? That's messed up. I really don't know how to pronounce his name.

Mako? Mako. Okay, OG Mako. He had some words for you in your music. You know what I'm saying? He said you encourage people to use drugs. But then he said he spoke to you and y'all good, but then I saw another interview where you was like,

nah, he gonna have to see me. Nah, that was the interview before. Yeah, that was before they spoke. Yeah, yeah, we good now, man. We good. What was that conversation like? Nah, we talked about it. I told him, man, we not going to even say anything else about this situation.

You know what I mean? It is true that sometimes people do interviews and one person says something, another person. And all it takes is for y'all to talk to each other and you guys can resolve that right there. But that's all it take for me from the beginning. You just call me, call my phone. You got a problem with me or anything you want to say about me, call me. Talk to me about it and I'm good. You got a problem with me or anything you want to say about me, call me, talk to me about it, and I'm good. You feel the competition.

I remember seeing you performing. The first time I ever seen you perform, I was in Atlanta. Yeah. And I think it was the Birthday Bash concert. And you went on kind of earlier in the night, and a lot of people felt like, oh, Future should have went on later. Right, right. And a lot of people went crazy for Future.

Do you feel like a lot of Atlanta artists have an issue with you or feel super competitive with Future in particular? I'm not sure about that, man. I got a lot of love for Atlanta. When I go around Atlanta, I'm riding by myself. The streets love me. The people love me. The fans love me.

The artists love me. You know what I'm saying? That situation, they probably thought I was a little premature for the stage set that I was asking for or the fans that I deserve. The radio station didn't know,

but the next year I ended up closing out the birthday bash and then last year I ended up doing it again. It was just a little early at that time. It was just early.

But you knew you wanted that spot. You gotta keep working. You can't let it give up. At what point did you notice your wave getting crazy? Because it's like the biggest show of buzzes. Ever since you dropped Monster, it's like the biggest show of buzzes.

When girls start putting out three-second clips of me on Ball Alert and stuff like that. It's crazy. I've seen that. What you mean? I didn't know I was that hot. Girls want to put pictures of me out in the bed. And that's when, you know, because everybody's always. That's when you understand, like, I need to fall back.

Yeah, you need to be careful. But it is true because people do focus a lot on your situation. Like, you know, you have four children's mothers. You got four kids and adopted sons, so five. You have five kids. He hearing this interview right now, like, you got five kids. Five kids. But you have four women that you have to deal with.

Yeah. And it seems. That's tough. No, it's not. Why is it tough? Because you have things. He make about 75 a show that's why nah don't say that you got man trying to get more money I don't make nothing

but it seems like I ain't making nothing it's all promo I don't make anything I don't make nothing I'm putting out these free mixtapes. I'm doing these free shows. I gave away free mixtapes.

They didn't have the, I gave free downloads. But now I take care of all of them. You know what I'm saying? Do you feel like you would want to be with one of them permanently? Like I always see you go back to, they always show you and I think bring you. I'm around my kids. But do you ever feel like you want to be with one of them like settle down monogamous relationship We already have a child together man. I'm already with

We got kids So, how do you feel about them like dating other guys and are they not supposed to do that or yeah? They can take other guys But if I pay for the house and pay for your car, you can't date a dude and have him living in my house. This is my house. If he dates you that much, he love you that much, tell him to buy you a house. And he told you, go on, get it over with.

Tell him to buy you a house. I'm happy. I don't have to pay the bills. That's what it's about, man. It's about moving on and being happy. If you can't make somebody happy, you shouldn't be mad if they're happy with someone else right I didn't know you was from Haitian descent of Haitian descent you didn't know that you know no oh everyone in the world because when I hang around I hang around a bunch of

Haitians yeah I hang around with the best Haitians. Yeah, I see what you slow bucks all the time. Yeah, I hang around with Haitians. They make the best shooters. One of our guys who works here is always like, you know, even before slow, even before slow. I know slow here, Haitian. But even before slow, that's how many of them can make. He's like, man, you Haitian. I'm like, man, I just be hanging around Haitians all the time.

And people started thinking I was Haitian. Wow. Now, you was talking about your big moms. A lot of sites that were ran by girls would give you flack. They'd be like, see, Sierra, what you think was going to happen to you? He got four kids already. Right. Did that bother you?

Nope. I don't get bothered. It ain't like, no, girls are still going to mess with you anyway. It doesn't matter. Of course. Superstars, regular girls, they still going to mess with me because that don't determine how they feel about me because if you know me, then you know what they talking about is not true now after that clip of you appeared does that mean if i was a deadbeat dad you thought she would have had a baby by me

i had three kids before and she actually got to meet the mothers and meet the mothers take care of my kids she had my kids she keep the kids like so if she keeping my kids and i had my kids but you think she'll have a baby by me if i was a deadbeat dad or maybe she ain't had no choice you might have just took that condom off or never put it on no condom off you ain't taking no condom off trying to get somebody pregnant that's just blinding y'all baby daddy getting 15 grand a month 16 16 that's blind me you said he don's blind me. He don't work at nothing. You don't set up for a human being to come out in this world, and it was a set up. Hey, girls trapping us all the time, man.

They do. It's time to get a little get back. I see Holly Berry Baby Daddy, I be like, go, bro. Do your thing, dog. Now, how do you move differently now? Now, you said you see that you're a celebrity. Women are putting up these clips of you, these three-second clips. What are you going to do differently now so you don't have to deal with that uh man i just move different man i don't

need to have to do that i just do certain stuff because of the time and the moment for me man i really don't need to be a part of that because you having fun you living and living life caught up in the moment sometimes it can be good sometimes it can be bad i feel like it was a good thing at the time now the dirty sprite does that make you nervous at all, the drink, and the reason I say that is allegedly that's what had Rick Ross having seizures, that's what had Lil Wayne having seizures. Just say people have died drinking. I don't know that.

It happened. It happened. It had me nervous at times because people talk about it so much. They wouldn't talk about it so much and then as soon as something happened, I'm like, we told them. That's the only thing, I don't want people to be like,

I told you so you should've stopped. So that's the only thing that had me nervous. Besides that, it's a good drink to me. How much drugs do you actually consume on a regular basis? Too much. I need to stop now. I know my sons are listening. I'm about to stop. You're lucky because you know

you're skinny and sometimes that makes people gain a lot of weight. It slows down your metabolism and all of that. It slows down my metabolism. It makes you constipated and and all of that? Nah, don't slow down metabolism. I've been skiing. It makes you constipated, not constipated? Nah. We did a show in Houston one time and you was backstage. You did do a song called Sh**, though.

I can't take it. It's crazy. I'm going to ask you. I did a song called Sh**. It's good, though. It's good. I'm not constip me if I did a song called constipated

I'm not constipated I did a song called goodness gracious now what's the status of ape shit speaking of ape shit we just

man working working there's no status for ape shit do you have a favorite mixtape out of the three monster because monster

jumped everything out it jumped everything out everybody like I like 56 nights too but I like monster Nights too, but I, like Monsta's hard, hard.

Yeah, Monsta was like me just saying, man, I'm being relentless. And what artists do you listen to now? Meek Mill said you're the only artist that he can really listen to now because you get him energetic. Is there a only artist

that you listen to? The only artist, not, I don't have the only artist that I listen to, but I do listen to Meek and I haven't bought any other album

besides this album. Meek got a lot of respect for you, man. he got a lot of respect for you man I got a lot of respect for me the feeling is mutual with me and him we 1,000 is where you get our artists in the game they come through for you like you come through for them he don't charge me on charge him you can't charge me for something then when it's time for you to do something you charge me with me and me we don't even have that discussion for us lawyers and managers. We talk about it and get it done on our own time.

I mean, that's interesting because you come from that Dungeon family where Outkast got booed when they would come to the East Coast. Now you're getting embraced by East Coast artists. East Coast artists saying, yo, you influenced me. It feels great. It feels great. For DS2, how many songs did you do before you chose how many would make the album?

I never stopped recording. Even when I turned the album in, I recorded that same day. So I never stopped recording. So I'm always recording songs. Are you gonna do any more mixtapes or you feel like just albums now? Hey, I've been recording every single day.

So I wanna drop another album this year. My plans is to drop another album. Did you feel like you had to redeem yourself after the Honest album? Yep. Because he wasn't getting the reception you wanted? Yeah, I wasn't getting the reception I wanted. I feel like I wasn't as honest that I should have been on that album.

How ironic. Do you feel you got indiscreet out a little bit? Because you got with the celebrity girl, you moved to L.A., just a little, maybe caused you to not make the music you wanted? Nah, because you got with the celebrity girl you moved to la just a little maybe caused you to not make the music you know because you got to think me moving to la that's my first time going you've been with an industry being in a public relationship or something in the industry is my first time so you have a first time experience it was a learning experience for me now you know what to do and what

not to do you think it was a distraction for you from work because i remember yeah it was a distraction because all they want to hear about is your relationship. They don't even want to think about your music no more. Your relationship is bigger than your music. I feel like, on honest, my relationship was bigger than me. And now I'm bigger than anything. It's not even about a relationship. It's about Monster, Beast Mode, 56 Nights, and Dirty Sprite.

It's not even about a relationship. And it's funny because they start feeding into stuff because, you know, if we know you're in a relationship you're like man, throwaway must be about Yeah, throwaway wasn't about her. It's about any girl

that's a throwaway. When you pick these singles now is it difficult? Because I never expect the trap to be a single. I never pick the singles no more.

I just drop the whole mixtape. That's what I did with Dirty Sprite. I was like I'm going to put the whole entire album out no single and let the fans

pick the single. People just gravitate towards her. Yeah, they gonna pick the single. The DJ is gonna pick the single. When y'all listen to the album, y'all gonna be like, man, this the one I love. I'm like, play that one. It was interesting when you said y'all prayed after sex. Like, what do you pray about after sex? I thought you were joking. Like, I know guys that pray before

they get in the... Like, please don't let me get gone. Nah, man, I don't even wanna speak on her no more, man. Well, not her, but just in general. When you pray after sex, what do you pray about? I'm not going to lie. I thought you were just being funny and making a joke that you prayed after sex. Like, just a joke. I'm not going to even speak on it, man.

I'm not going to make no jokes, man. I'm going to answer the question. Hey, ask me. I'm just answering the question. But at the end of the day, man, we move past it. It's cool. Where do you feel like you're at in the game now? Because when I saw the interview with Elliot, you said, I'm not where I want to be.

Where do you feel you're at right now? I feel like I'm in a great place. I'm heading in the right direction. I got a lot of support from a lot of fans. The industry has been supporting me, and that's where I want to be at. You know what I'm saying? That's enough to keep continuing to go on. It's hard to get hot again.

Exactly. That's why you got to stay hot and never stop. If you stop, if you make a move and take two months off, another artist might come in, and then two months when you're taking vacations. Like, I started going on vacations and going out to eat. I never went out to eat until I was in a relationship. I never went on a vacation until I was in a relationship.

But you never went out to eat. You're from Atlanta. They got some of the best restaurants in the world. I go to the studio every single day, never go out to eat. I had Christmas at the studio. You had Thanksgiving at the studio. Everything had to happen at the studio. When I first started,

then we got a relationship. We're going during the dates and stuff. I never went on a date. Your poor baby mamas, what happened with them? You didn't ever take them on those dates or nothing? I was young when I was with them. I was young.

I was in high school when I had my first child. So that was my first son. By the time I got success in the industry in high school when I had my first child. So that was my first son. By the time I got success in the industry, he was already going on 10 years old. You know what I'm saying? Then my other baby mama, we already went through everything together. We probably went on movie dates

a long time ago before I even had any success. But I'm saying while I was having success, I wasn't with her. My daughter mom while I had success. I've been like, you ain't never take me nowhere. Now you out at restaurants. Nah, nah, I take them on dates now.

When did you first start recording? When did you first record ever? I recorded probably when I was about 13. At the Dungeon Family Studio? I didn't record. I recorded with my homies. It was some older cats from my neighborhood took me to the studio one time. I recorded.

Did Rico, anybody know that, yo, this guy can go? My uncle, he had passed away. Then I end up, Rico came to the funeral. Then my granddad was like, man, he been in the streets doing all this stuff. Man, you need to take him over to your house. Rico was like, man, I'm going to take you over to my house. I was like 17 going on 18 at the time.

He took me over to his house. I did like one verse on the song I wasn't comfortable because he had already had success it's superstars over here I'm not comfortable over here they looking at me like oh you just a little cousin coming around saying you the cousin like man I went back to the neighborhood stayed over there for like four months and then my other uncle passed away then Rico came back it was like man that song you did I've been playing it for people they love it I thought in my mind this time I was like man man, that song you did, I've been playing it for people. They love it. I thought in my mind, this time, I was like, man, I go over to his house. I'm never going back to the neighborhood.

So I went over to his house, and I never went back for like a whole year. I just stayed at his house. Was your name Future yet? No, it was Meat. Meat? Meat, M-E-A-T. Oh, yeah, I saw you say that. They used to call you Meathead.

What? Yeah, I'm from the hood. My granddaddy gave me that name when I was born. And then they gave you the name Future. Yep, they gave me the name Future. Why? Because I was the youngest at the dungeon. They was like, man, you the future, you the future.

At the time, it didn't stick to me. But over time, I loved the name. How did you end up getting with Rocco out of that situation? Man, being in the streets. Me and Rocco connected. See, he even talk like a drug dealer. Quick, short answers. You know what I mean?

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