Future NOT SO Future

He got his name from the Dungeon Family and his sound was encouraged by his cousin Rico Wade but is Future's sound really futuristic?

For the last 5 or 6 years rappers have been living on this crutch that we all know as "Auto Tune," effect software that enhances to voice to sound more clear or a bit digital.  It was brought to us in 2004 when Florida Rapper/Singer, T-Pain, used it on his entire debut "Rappa Ternt Sanga."  From 2004 - 2006 T-Pain seemed to be the only guy in the industry that was using and then he dropped "Epiphany."  After T-Pain's sophomore effort and many collaborations with major hip hop artist, everyone jumped on the "Auto Tune" bandwagon.  You had rappers like Lil Wayne, Kanye West, Jim Jones, and more using this software to not only make hits but to make entire albums.  With one or two artist using it I was cool with it but when you get cats like Yung Berg using to make and hit because they have no buzz then it's gone too far.  What Lil Wayne did with it on "Lollipop" was classic and what Kanye did on "Heartbreaks and 808s" was ingenious.  But when you have someone as talented as R. Kelly using it...............(Loss for words).

Now if you really wanna dig into it, Roger Troutman was the first one with the futuristic sound.  This brother have everyone in the thinking they were making love to the sounds and voice of a computer.  Zapp & Roger were decades before their time and they are still relevant in Hip Hop and R&B today.  Even when Roger was doing tracks with artist from Snoop Dogg to 2Pac, Blackstreet's Teddy Riley was using the invention created by Roger.  

So is Future's sound really futuristic?  No.  I would actually like to hear some tracks of Future without the added sound effects.  On joints like "Same Damn Time" and "Magic" he used it perfectly but when you listen to "Racks," even though it was a huge success, you can't make out a damn word this dude is saying.  It's cool to use it also on some of the more laid back tracks that touches his female artist but we don't want to hear it on every song.  Not only is Future singing with it, he raps with it also which is the focal point of my post.  He has overused it making everything Jay said in "D.O.A." true.  Future is a dope writer and artist and i just hope he doesn't continue to use this and fans' ears get tired of listening to it.  My advice to Future, just lay off it for a couple of tracks or every other track, IJS.

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