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DJ Khaled f. Nicki Minaj, Rick Ross and Future, “I Wanna Be With You” MP3
It’s been eight months since Future re-released his debut album, but in the downtime leading up to his next wave (a new single, “Honest,” is
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Stream: Future, “Honest”
Finally, here’s “Honest,” the first single from Future’s sophomore LP of the same name. (Referred to as Future Hendrix until this week, it’s the album he’s finishing up before heading out on tour with...
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Beat Construction: Metro Boomin
FUTURE’S YOUNG HITMAKER BRIGHTENS UP The producer is one of the most crucial yet anonymous figures in all of music. Every now and again we aim to illuminate these under-heralded artists with Beat...
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Stream: R. Kelly f. Future, “Tear It Up”
R. Kelly is gearing up for the release of his 12th solo album, Black Panties (no release date yet). He’s already released the record’s lead single, “My Story” with 2 Chainz, and yesterday stopped by …...
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The Best of the MTV VMAs Red Carpet
The MTV VMAs red carpet historically rewards not its best dressed celebs, but rather it’s most flagrant, weird and talked-about. Here, we take a look at last night’s outfits and hand out superlatives...
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Video: DJ Khaled f. Future, Nicki Minaj and Rick Ross, “I Wanna Be With You”
Future adorably tugs at the hood of his hooded shirt (it’s not exactly a hoodie?) in the new video for late-summer ballad “I Wanna Be With You,” filmed last month in Miami. Rick Ross seemingly … read...
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Guest Selects: En Noir’s NYFW Playlist
FADER NYFW, Spring 2014 Every week, a different FADER editor compiles a playlist to highlight a new release and give you a guide to that artist’s web of influences and peers. These Staff Selects live …...
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Video: Future, “Honest”
Here’s the video for Future’s new single, “Honest”; I’d argue it’s his best yet. Future Pavarotti blinks back tears in a confessional booth, wails on an all-white grand piano and agonizingly prays into...
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Video: Future, “Sh!t” (Prod. by Mike WiLL Made It)
Future’s new album, Honest, is set to be his most positive and broadly appealing, full of pop ballads cleverly disguised as rap songs. But Future can still make one hell of an aggressive rap song. …...
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Stream: Stuey Rock f. Future, “Anyway”
Freebandz associate Stuey Rock teams up with Future on his new single “Anyway,” produced by DJ Spinz and rookie of the year Dun Deal. Stuey’s usually one for bright, club-oriented tracks, but here he’s...
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Live: B.o.B, Big Boi and Future at vitaminwater #uncapped
Walking into the finale of this year’s vitaminwater #uncapped last night, guests were greeted by the stuffy smell of yellowing books. The General Society Library, usually a quiet oasis filled with...
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Interview: B.o.B at vitaminwater #uncapped
Before B.o.B’s #uncapped performance at the General Society Library in New York, the rapper spoke with Miss Info about T-Pain’s influence on his performance style and his upcoming LP, Underground...
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Download Metro Boomin’s 19 & Boomin Mixtape
Metro Boomin, the rising Atlanta producer best known for Future collaborations “Honest” and “Karate Chop,” has released his own debut tape, 19 & Boomin. It features exclusive tracks from Future,...
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Drake Is Reading Your Subtweets, Future Leaves Tour
Page Six reports that Future plans to sue Drake for $1.5 million in lost wages after leaving Drake’s Would You Like a Tour?, which begins this Friday in Pittsburgh. Things started to go sour on … read...
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Watch Videos from the BET Hip-Hop Awards
The BET Hip-Hop Awards, taped last month in Atlanta, are airing right now. Watch a handful of videos from the show, including Kendrick Lamar’s Drake-dissing freestyle over Mobb Deep’s “Shook Ones”,...
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Future Allegedly Back on Drake Tour
Update 10/17/2013: In a statement, Future confirms he’ll tour with Drake and Miguel, after all. He writes: I am set to continue as planned with Drake and Miguel on the “Would You Like A Tour?” … read...
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Video: Young Scooter f. Future, “Caught Up In The Streets”
Here’s the video for Young Scooter’s “Caught Up In The Streets” featuring Future, taken from Scooter’s August From The Cell Block To Your Block tape. Scooter’s was released from Dekalb County jail in...
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Carve Your Own Miley Cyrus, Future or Baby North Pumpkins with FADER’s...
NOT YOUR AVERAGE JACK ‘O LANTERNS This Halloween, impress your neighbors with a hand-carved portrait pumpkin, using these FADER-approved stencils to render Miley’s tongue, Future’s grin or the spawn of...
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Ciara and Future are Engaged
Ciara and Future are engaged, The Associated Press reports. Ciara celebrated her 28th birthday on Friday; Future surprised her with the proposal over the weekend, says publicist Chris Chambers. “Today...
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Live: Drake at Barclays Center
“We’re all agreeing that tonight is my birthday party,” Drake said onstage last night at Barclays Center, telling more than asking. He celebrated his 27th with guests, sharing his stage—a...
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Mike WiLL Made It Announces New Mixtape, #MikeWiLLBeenTriLL
Mike WiLL Made It will release a free tape in late December, a final freebie before the release of his first major label LP for Interscope next year. Presented in collaboration with Been Trill,...
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Future f. Casino, “Pocket Watching” MP3
808 Mafia released a new mixtape today, Crazy 8 x It’s A Southside Track 3. Here’s Future and his brother Casino’s contribution, “Pocket Watching,” produced by Metro Boomin. Future’s at his toughest,...
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Stream: Future f. Miley Cyrus and Mr. Hudson, “Real and True”
Future’s been making tender crossover ballads for years, but “Real and True”—a monogamy-celebrating prom song that’s smartly pegged to Future and Ciara’s engagement—is the first one that will make it...
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Video: Future f. Miley Cyrus and Mr. Hudson, “Real and True”
Here’s the space-themed video for Future, Miley Cyrus and Mr. Hudson’s not-enough-Future pop ballad, “Real and True.” Directed by UK fashion photographer Rankin, it’s a big-budget step up from his...
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Stream: Future, “Maison Margiela (CDQ)”
Today Atlanta producer Metro Boomin let loose a CD quality version of Future’s ode to a preferred clothier of Kanye West and the fashion house probably best suited to design “bat cave” uniforms,...
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Download How To Dress Well’s What Do You Really Want? Mix
Yesterday, How To Dress Well shared a 50-minute mix, featuring an edit of Kanye West’s “I’m In It” and songs by Future, Drake, Meek Mill, Migos and Oneohtrix Point Never. Now he’s offering up a … read...
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Stream: Future, “Honest (suicideyear Remix)”
Last night, Baton Rouge producer suicideyear—whose beats have tickled the unhappy fancies of Yung Lean and Lil Pain—shared this supposedly incomplete remix of Future’s “Honest.” (He says the...
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Future: All the Way Real
After finding himself in the studio, Future starts letting people in From the magazine: ISSUE 89, December 2013/January 2014 Sitting at a laptop, with his back to me and a handful of label and press …...
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Introducing The FADER’s 2013-14 Now Issue: Blood Orange and Travi$ Scott
The FADER’s 2013-14 Now Issue—our annual look at today’s stars who’re setting the tone for tomorrow’s music, showcasing over 100 artists, photographers, authors and directors to watch—hits newsstands...
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Footnotes: Future
From the magazine: ISSUE 89, December 2013/January 2014 Every great artist needs a great team, whether in the form of producers and session guitarists or simply friends offering support. In Footnotes,...
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Future, “Regular Party” MP3
Today, DJ Rell and DJ Scream released a new tape, Streets Inspired 12. Future’s straight-shooting contribution is “Regular Party”—there’s no angst, no sorrow, just unmitigated turn up. (I’d also like...
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I met Capital Steez, just once, and just for a moment. He and the rest of his crew, Pro Era, came to the FADER office in June of 2012 for a video interview and group … read more »
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Stream: Future, “Honest (DJ Rashad Remix)”
It is impossible to listen to Future’s “Honest” too many times (#honest), but if you are looking to mix it up a little, you’ve already got some good options: August Alsina’s beautiful cover, for one; …...
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Video: Mike WiLL Made It and Future, “Faded”
“Faded” is a new track from Mike WiLL Made It and Future that will appear exclusively on Mike WiLL’s upcoming tape,
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Stream: Future f. Yo Gotti, “Day 1″ (Prod. by 808 Mafia)
FADER PREMIERE DJ Esco, Magic City’s Monday night resident, Future’s current tour DJ and the guy we have to thank for introducing Future to Mike WiLL Made it years ago, will release a new tape … read...
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Stream: Rick Ross feat. Meek Mill, Wale, & Future, “No Games (Remix)”
Originally scheduled to drop on December 17th, Rick Ross’ sixth full-length effort, Mastermind, is now slated for an early 2014 release. First single “No Games” already included a guest spot from...
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Video: Test f. Future and Mexico Rann, “Wut We Call It”
FADER PREMIERE Test, the Baltimore rapper affiliated with Future’s Freebandz crew, has shared a video for “Wut We Call It,” which first appeared on his Green Light earlier this year. With guest spots...
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The FADER Presents: LISTMANIA 2013
Top 3 Big Sean Disses Embedded in Praise for Kendrick Lamar’s “Control” Verse 3“But seriously, apologies to Big Sean, who actually had a solid showing (even if it was immediately overshadowed)” —...
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Download The FADER #89 Podcast
The 89th issue of The FADER is on newsstands now, with our cover stories—Blood Orange and Travi$ Scott—online, plus interviews with Future and Kyary Pamyu Pamyu and our rundowns of producers,...
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Download suicideyear’s HAVEFUN 001 Mixtape
FADER PREMIERE With languid beats alternating between down-comforter-soft and dragging-a-razor-blade, suicideyear, the Baton Rouge teenager, is arguably the year’s most influential producer without a...
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Stream: DJ Esco f. Future, Jim Jones and Young Scooter, “The Way The Game Goes”
FADER PREMIERE Atlanta’s DJ Esco has travelled along with Future on Drake’s Would You Like a Tour? this winter. This week they’ll finish that tour, and tomorrow they’ll celebrate with a new DJ Esco...
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Stream: Mac Miller, “Eggs Aisle”
Tomorrow, Mac Miller will release Live From Space, a digital-only album compiling songs performed live with The Internet on this year’s Space Migration Tour and five previously unreleased studio tracks...
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Stream: Future f. Drake and Juicy J, “SH!T (Remix)” Prod. by Mike WiLL Made It
Frenemies Future and Drake play the last show of their excellent tour tomorrow. Today, they celebrate with a remix to Future’s explosive, stomach-punching “SH!T.” The new version samples Three 6...
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Download DJ Esco’s No Sleep Mixtape
Future’s album Honest, once promised for November, won’t drop until next year. Tide yourself over with the intimate Future interview from our current issue and this new mixtape from DJ Esco, Future’s...
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Stream: Future f. Pastor Troy, Jeezy and T.I., “SH!T (Remix)” (Prod. by Mike...
FADER PREMIERE Yesterday, Drake got mad—maybe at Kendrick Lamar—on a remix of Future’s howling single “SH!T” that appeared on DJ Esco’s No Sleep mixtape. Today, producer Mike WiLL Made It shares...
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Stream: Future f. Diddy and ScHoolboy Q, “Sh!t”
Future’s “Sh!t” has already been reworked with great success twice this week, so what’s one more remix to take us into the weekend? Tonight Diddy and ScHoolboy Q do as Juicy J and Drake and … read more »
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Stream: Justin Bieber f. Future, “What’s Hatnin’”
Justin Bieber’s grown-and-sexy career reboot Journals is out now, and in addition to all ten of his #musicmonday drops, it includes five new tracks along with appearances by Lil Wayne (who promised...
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Download Mike WiLL Made It’s New Mixtape, #MikeWillBeenTriLL
A dozen or so “Sh!t” remixes later, Mike WiLL Made It’s traditional Christmas turnup, #MikeWillBeenTrill has arrived. A reflection of his rise to super-producer status, the tape is loaded with big name...
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Video: Future, “Maison Margiela”
Future rides a private jet in the new video for “Maison Margiela,” the DJ Spinz and Metro Boomin-produced single originally released in October 2013. (The track now also appears on DJ Esco’s No Sleep...
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Cover Art: Future’s “Honest” and Built to Spill’s “Car”
Associate editor Duncan Cooper and art director Harry Gassel share a special fondness for amateur YouTube covers—songs sung solo in someone’s bedroom, shot through their webcam and into the world. The...
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