Since entering the game as a junior member of legendary ATL rap collective The Dungeon Family, Future has been tipped for greatness.

It isn’t the stories that Future tells, but the complex way in which he tells them - somehow, the ATL rapper allows the beat to guide his voice like the two are spiritually intertwined. Take “King’s Dead,” a song where Future makes Kendrick Lamar seem completely ordinary simply by hitting a high-pitch falsetto and singing the Three 6 Mafia-honoring lyrics: 'La-di-da-di-da, slob on me knob.' It doesn’t matter that Future’s verse is lyrically simplistic (or kinda sounds like he just got punched in the unmentionables), what matters is that there isn’t another rapper in the game capable of producing such an unexpected yet playful shift in tone. In many ways that’s the key to understanding his genius namely, his ability to use his voice as an instrument that can unpredictably weave its way through tracks.

Hendrix had his guitar, Miles had his trumpet, Future has his voice.

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