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It wasdeliriously happy, it wasdeeply pained.
It was a modestBillboardsuccess nothing spectacular.
His tics and vocal filters entered raps lexicon almost immediately.
Which made the two-year gap before album No.
Though he had no follow-up, Future didnt stay quiet.
In 2013, he wrote Body Party with Ciara, whom he had recently started dating.
The song cracked the top 25.
As 2013 became 2014, a fling with Ciara became an engagement.
It was supposed to be his unabashed star turn.
Despite debuting at No.
But looking back, it has some of hismeanestandtenderestsongs.
The album became a fulcrum on which Futures career turned creatively, then commercially.
A year and a half later, things would be inverted once again.
He and Ciara broke off their engagement amid persistent rumors that Future had cheated.
He did this not by expanding his already-wide palette, but by narrowing it.
The strange thing is, we made him both.
And for a blockbuster album,DS2worked with a very limited, very gray emotional palette.
That string of four records is universally seen as the creative and commercial jolt Future needed.
But its a little more complicated than that.
Im an addict and I cant even hide it.
Similar references began to cloud nearly all of Futures records.
Thankfully, the rest of Futures post-peak period has not been a smooth down-slope.
With all its forays into pop and R&B, though,HNDRXXis an exception.
(b) Emotionally stunted man in his mid-30s.
Option B often goes hand in hand with certain aesthetic choices.
He now needs a certain throw in of production to mine things out of himself.
Simply being past his peak does not mean that Futures receded from the spotlight.
