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Future Slouches Toward Legacy
Mixtape Pluto is a rote retread of his last two albums.
(To very briefly recap, Lamar’s guest verse on “Like That,” off Future and Metro Boomin’s project We Don’t Trust You, took direct aim at the Canadian hitmaker and J. Cole, thus launching a riveting monthslong war of words filled with accusations of ghostwriting, grooming, and infidelity.) Yet as beef enthusiasts poured over each new diss like tea leaves, Future stayed discernibly above the fray, avoiding much of the backlash as he went on an extensive arena tour with Metro and made space for Cole on the sequel release, We Still Don’t Trust You. Considering how Future’s current success hinged on these collabs, this sort of victory lap feels like a miss in the rapper’s post-Aubrey period, choosing to play things safe without his commercially lucrative chum rather than try a more ambitious option with different producers.
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