After basking in the hood-rich hypnosis that is Slime & B by Chris Brown (I know, sorry) and the billy goat Young Thug, which features Future crooning on “Help Me Breathe”, I opened Apple Music and discovered that the king of emo trap released his own latest album/mixtape/whatever, High Off Life. The timing couldn’t be more perfect. So in this moment, it is a must that I give this the First Timer’s treatment… an off-the-top review during my first listen-through of a project. Real time, no edits. Aside from some formatting details…

Play it with me.

Trapped in the Sun

Starting with some strangz. Dramatic!

I can’t even lie… Future is giving me visuals with these trap raps. And this beat is so fire lol. Dramatic!!

In reality, this beat is probably all synths, but still slaps. Great intro track.

HiTek Tek

Oh yeah, let’s get ignorant.

If the clubs were open…!

I’m bobbing my head hard af to this. I don’t really know what he’s saying. This is my reaction to most Future songs tbh, so this can probably be the end of the review.

Touch the Sky

He put “200 racks on her debit card”? A real quarantine hero. Can’t spell IRS without Future. Fuck Trump.

I just remembered running into Future at his show with Lul Baby in Atlanta. I looked this man in his eyes and saw a true professional…oop next song.

Solitaires (feat. Travis Scott)

Ooooooooooooh. This has me moving in a different way.

“Coronavirus diamonds//you can catch the flu”. Confirmed he’s been recording this during the ‘tine. This song is tough. This will be big.

I give this 9/10 head bobs off the first impression alone!

Ridin Strikers

My shoulders are still rocking. Future is floating on this.

I’m not a Future enthusiast by any means, but I feel like he’s in his bag on this…so far.

Beat switch-up!

He’s trying out a new ad-lib. Hungh!

One of My

Future knows a lot of people who do a lot of things. I wonder if one of his niggas knows about investments?

Eh.

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“I’ve got the preacher’s daughter selling p*ssy”, my word!

Future is talking filthy on this.

“Yeen’t did shit I did”. I like that.

Filthy! The last couple of songs have been a little darker. I’m still rockin’, just a little bit meaner.

Hard to Choose One

He is just flowing on this. Verses leaking into the hook then back into the bars. Steady.

Trillionaire (feat. YoungBoy NBA)

The “high out my mind” line reminded me of seeing Future again. Like there’s no way this man is doing drugs like this and still looking as focused as he did. Lol idk…

Aww a little duet lol.

This is cute or whatever, but I feel like I will skip over this song the next time I listen to it. I’d skip over it now, but I’ll fight through it for the sake of this review.

Harlem Shake (feat. Young Thug)

The name alone is selling me. And the beat is making me dance. The formula is at work.

Up the River

The producer tag LOL. Is this The Dream in the background?

I don’t know how to feel yet. I guess I’m supposed to feel good? Hopeful? Triumphant?

It feels like it’s trying to be uplifting, but he’s also talking about sending people up the river. My body doesn’t know what to do.

Is he saying “Haesthetics” with a capital H?

Didn’t really like.

Pray for a Key

Beat drop. It’s amazing how he’s found 892 different ways to say he’s sold drugs.

I like the hook.

Too Comfortable

I’m smiling just at the beginning. Here comes a lady slander song.

“It’s hard to stay faithful when you winnin'”

I was wrong… he’s not really slandering women. It’s more self-deprecating. Or like bragging.

I’m really getting into this, analyzing a Future album. Smh.

Fuck boy anthem. But I’m not hating it.

All Bad (feat. Lil Uzi Vert)

This sounds like it’ll have Chris Brown on it. Oh, Lil Uzi…. kinda the same thing.

Uzi is a great rapper lol.

Forsureski!

This is cute and makes me feel like going to an arcade.

Outer Space Bih

I like the title 🙂

Jiggy. He made this one for me.

A little spoken word.

“I got like two G Wagons in my ears”. Oof.

This is what you’d call… a vibe.

Accepting My Flaws

Lawd.

Okayyyyy! I like this.

I feel like I’m just now starting to understand what Future’s about.

This is hard. He’s not really rapping about anything crazy, but I appreciate that he finds new ways to say the same shit over and over.

Life Is Good (feat. Drake)

We know this song alreadyyyy!

“Workin’ on the weekend like usual”. Shoutout to the service industry and essential workers. Ha.

“We some poor, high-class niggas”? Man….

Last Name (feat. Lil Durk)

These last few songs seem like the bonus tracks, and I feel like “Accepting My Flaws” was the real end.

I want to skip this.

Am I supposed to like Lil Durk? Is he good? I haven’t really listened to him.

“Perfect conversations got you touching clouds”. Okay.

Future is wild, man. “I don’t even know her name//she wanna have my child”. Sheesh.

Tycoon

Wheezy outta here!

A knock, but I don’t feel any other kinda way yet.

I wonder if all tycoons carry Dracos?

I like this. “Til they throw the sheets on me//I’m going crazy”. Haha.

100 Shooters (feat. Meek Mill and Doe Boy)

Isn’t this old?

It’s fun but “featuring Meek Mill” is one way to get me to not listen to a song. I don’t know why I’m this way, I just am.

Life Is Good (Remix) [feat. Drake, DaBaby & Lil Baby

Rinse and repeat.

“And she call me daddy//cause my money long like Stevie”. Yeeeeesh. If you know, you know.

I’m sad to say this, but I have DaBaby fatigue.

Alright, album over basically.

Overall:

Take away four or five songs and it’s heat all the way through! But this is the case for a lot of albums these days, and typical for Future’s projects.

The song with Travis Scott is going to go crazy! I enjoyed a handful of tracks and had fun listening to the album as a whole. I’m not mad at this at all!