COLLEGE KIDS REACT TO FUTURE

- ♪ Lawyers and the commissary
ain't gon pay itself ♪

- You could just mumble with it
and you know the words.

♪ (industrial music) ♪

(silence)

- ♪ Percocets, molly, Percocets ♪

- Oh my god! I love this song.

- 'Ey! Future.

- ♪ Mask off... ♪

- Oh, we're watching
all Future right now?

- ♪ Mask off... ♪

- (singing along)
♪ ...fuck it, mask off ♪

I love this song.

- ♪ Two cups,
toast up with the gang ♪

- I don't know this song.

- I know the song, but I just
don't know his name.

But I should know.

- ♪ ...I'm the livin' proof (Super) ♪

♪ Ain't compromising... ♪
- Oh, Amber Rose? I see.

- ♪ Rick James, thirty-three chains ♪

♪ Ocean air... ♪
- It's weird.

I don't listen to rap like that,
but it's like...

- ♪ Top off, that's a liability ♪

♪ Hit the gas, boostin' my... ♪
- He's pretty damn awesome.

- (singing along) ♪ Mask off,
fuck it, mask off ♪

- Future's dope, dude.

I really love Future.

- God, I fucking love this shit.

- That's trippy.
- ♪ Gas gone, never nod off ♪

- Ooh, that was
a really good music video.

- This is, like, my summer jam,
you know what I mean?

I just feel really cool
when I'm listening to it.

- That's my shit!

You can use that song
at parties, the gym,

going to bed, waking up,
it's perfect for anything.

- I love that rhythm of music.

I just love that.

It puts me, you know,
in a mood, like,

yeah, I can do this.

Like, yeah, let's work out!

I run five miles.
No, run six!

- Every training session,
we're going off to Future.

He's like a god right now.

No one touches Future.

- Future has become
one of those artists

that I didn't
really fuck with before,

but as more music comes out,
I'm genuinely interested.

- ♪ Fell in love with the lifestyle ♪

♪ Four bad bitches on a white couch ♪

♪ Last night, tried to pipe down ♪

- Ooh, this is definitely different
from the other music video.

- ♪ Extra luv ♪
- Oh, Future!

It says on his shirt.

- This is definitely a summer jam.

- ♪ It's back-back when I come... ♪

- Oh, this is the song with YG.

- I'm a big fan of YG,
so I'm pretty surprised

that I haven't heard
this song before.

- ♪ It go brrrrrrat
when I come through ♪

- (giggling) Brrrrrrra!

- This is such
a typical music video,

the rapper with the girls.

- Imagine how fun it is
to be the girls in this music video.

Like, just stand here
and look hot. Okay.

- I love this duo.

- ♪ Oo oo oo oo ooh ♪

- ♪ You never really loved me ♪

- I liked that song.

- It's over, but I'm still
feeling the beat.

- I'm not Future's biggest fan,
but I do think he is good.

- The trademark of Future
is his very low, kinda (mumbling),

kind of like voice.

Mumble rap itself
has become a thing,

so now his voice
doesn't seem anywhere near

as annoying
as I used to think it was.

But I still love mumble rap.

- ♪ I turn the Ritz
into a poor house ♪

- Okay, I know who
this person is, The Weeknd.

- Every time I hear this,
I forget that The Weeknd

is even in this song.

- ♪ Go 'head and show me
how you go down ♪

♪ ...ho's time ♪

♪ Bitch, I'm on my own time ♪

♪ Fuck a... ♪
- Mmm! Okay, I like this.

- ♪ (vocalizing softly) ♪
- I love this song.

- This is one of my favorite songs
from last year, for sure.

♪ (vocalizing softly) ♪

- (sighing) I could get
sucked into this all day.

- ♪ Make her take a sip
of Ace of Spade like it's water ♪

- I love how they're always like,
okay, it's my turn to rap

and I'm rapping at you
in the background,

and then when it's your turn,
you come up in front, okay?

Okay, we good?

- ♪ If she catch me cheating,
I will never tell her sorry ♪

- (softly) I love that song.

(normally) It's so good.

That's, I mean,
such a great collab,

two artists that I really love.

- I love the rhythm,
that's the thing,

but I don't know if I'm okay
with the lyrics, you know,

but it's okay.
I like the rhythm.

- I don't know if
that's a good message.

I mean, I hate to disagree,
but I feel like

if you cheat on someone,
you should for sure apologize.

- This is just everything
that we've been playing,

I've been bumping in my car,
on my headphones.

Future is always playing
wherever I am.

- Low Life, best song ever.

They mentioned this line,
where he's like,

"Bitch from Pakistan, what's up?"

Literally, every brown person
I know had that on

as their caption, like,
"Oh, we're getting recognized

from The Weeknd and Future."

- ♪ Young nigga, move that dope ♪

♪ Young nigga, move that dope... ♪

- This song's OG classic.

- This is probably
one of the first songs by him

that really blew up that I heard.

- ♪ Whippin' the yam,
whippin' and flippin' the yam ♪

♪ Turn the whole... ♪

- I like this one because
it's a little bit more upbeat.

- ♪ ...brick to a Lam ♪

- This is so cool.

- ♪ Choppin' that work
like karate (Woo!) ♪

- His flow.

- ♪ ...move that dope ♪

- I don't know why,
but I feel Labib was singing

to this if he reacted to this.

- (singing along)
♪ Young nigga, move that dope ♪

♪ Young nigga, move that dope ♪

- You, like, have to move to this.

- ♪ Move that dope ♪

- He doin' this all day.

- ♪ Me, I try to leave... ♪

- That's the mans
right there, dawg, Pharrell,

Pharrell and T.

- ♪ The old skateboard P,
that's your favorite ♪

♪ Me and twenty girls doin'... ♪

- Watching these music videos
makes you want to do bad things.

- All their music videos
are the same.

It's like cars and girls and drugs.

- ♪ The Gandalf hat
and the weird ass clothes ♪

♪ That's Comme des Garçons
and the Buffalo ♪

- He could have anyone on a song
and it's just amazing.

He's always got a good blend
of different people in his music.

- With The Weeknd
and with Pharrell and Pusha T,

I mean, I feel like him
collaborating with other artists

like that helps him
to kind of branch out

to different fanbases.

- ♪ Fuck up some commas, yeah ♪

- (laughing) This was my song.

- ♪ Fuck up some commas, yeah ♪

- (singing along) ♪ Fuck up
some commas, yeah ♪

- (mumbling along)

It's funny, like,
you could just mumble with it

and it's like
you know the words.

- I love this.

The instrumental, the lyrics.

- ♪ Smoke the first 48 hours,
grind 22 and sleep 2 hours ♪

- I never knew I knew
so many of Future's songs.

- His music videos
are just so extra, too.

Like, there's always
just a lot going on in them.

- ♪ Drop ya' bitch off
at Fulton County ♪

♪ Might count it up
and then re-count it ♪

♪ Double cups like Tunechi, yeah ♪

♪ Bust it down
with these goonies, yeah ♪

- (singing along)
♪ Give no fucks, yeah ♪

♪ We don't give no fucks, yeah ♪

See, like, this shit is good.

Like, I love this.

- When I hear this song,
I just think of being in a club,

making my non-existent dollars rain.

- This one's a fun song.

- ♪ Let's fuck up some commas ♪

♪ Let's fuck up
some commas, yeah ♪

♪ Let's fuck up some commas ♪

- I mean, it's a jam.
This was a huge hit.

- He's doing the classic rapper,
like, look at all this paper,

but it's something
you can bob your head to,

even if you're broke.

- I could have $20.00
in my wallet at a time,

and I hear this song,
and I just feel like

the biggest baller on earth.

- ♪ I blow a bag today,
I do nothing fugazi ♪

- (mimicking) I blow a bag today.

- ♪ I walk in the mall and go crazy ♪

- This just shows
how much content he has.

It's crazy. Like, it doesn't stop.

- The beat is always really fire,
so you're always finding yourself

just bobbing your head.

- They're all starting
to sound the same, though.

I'm like, oh, is this not
the same song you just played?

- They kind of all sound
the same, to be honest.

(laughing) I might
just actually know one

and I'm like, "I know all of these!"

- ♪ I had to grab the Wraith ♪

♪ I had to change the safe ♪

♪ I had to change my bitch ♪

- This guy lives
a very lavish lifestyle.

- It's all about money,
like, I'm going up, acting like...

10 G's, like it's nothing.

- ♪ (Future mumbling) ♪

♪ (Future mumbling) ♪

- [Inaudible] in the back.

- ♪ (Future mumbling) ♪

- I feel like half the time,
I don't even know

what they're saying,
but I'm just like, "Yeah!"

100% mumble rap.

- Rappers like Future have created
this trademark in their music.

Although a lot of their songs
sound slightly similar

to each other,
that's just kind of, I think,

helps brand Future as a musician.

- ♪ Where your ass was at, dog,
when niggas woudn't feed me? ♪

♪ Where your ass was at, dog,
when bitches didn't need me? ♪

- (singing along)
♪ Where your ass at... ♪

- ♪ ...when niggas
tried to run off ♪

♪ Where your ass at, dog? ♪

♪ You made me pull this gun out ♪
- It's good shit.

- ♪ Had her rain dance
on the dick, ass jumping ♪

- Literally, whenever
I wouldn't check in with my mom

about something,
like if I went out somewhere,

she would text me that,
like, "Where your ass is at?"

I'm like, "Stop!"

- ♪ Where your ass was at... ♪
- Oh damn.

- ♪ ...when we took the city over ♪
- Oh, my heart.

I love Drake.

- I like Drake.

He has a very distinct voice.

- Their collab album
was the best thing that happened.

- (singing along)
♪ Where were you? ♪

♪ When all the dogs needed help? ♪

♪ Lawyers and the commissary
ain't gon pay itself ♪

Good shit, man! Good shit.

- See, you can actually
see what he's saying.

I don't think he indulges
in the mumble rap as much.

- ♪ Where your ass was at
when I was trapping in the store? ♪

♪ Had to struggle to get
to where I'm at and selling dope ♪

- I like this song.

- ♪ Juugin' out the stove
and we still bangin', honest ♪

♪ Blowing on the O, yo,
we call that ho an onion ♪

- That was good.
I liked that one.

- I love Future.

He was the first new thing
in hip hop in a long time.

- He's branding himself really well,

so he's came up
in the last few years

as one of the big
hitting rappers in the scene.

I hope he keeps making great music
because he's killing it.

- (FBE) So those were all videos
by the rapper Future.

- "Future."

Oh my god, I was--
I wanted to say that,

but I didn't want to be wrong.

- (FBE) What do you think about him?

- I think he's good.

He has a nice voice,
but then again,

a lot of his songs
kind of sounded the same.

- I love the beat. It's fun.

Like I said, I like
working out to that.

I just don't like that they
use women so much in their videos,

like, just like chilling there.

Objectifying a little bit,
women, still.

- His music is very hype music.

I feel like I would put this on
when I'm trying to get pumped up.

- He kind of has
the classic rapper vibe to him.

He kind of really gives a name
to what trap music

and these kind of things are.

- He's one of the biggest faces
of the rap game,

if not, like--
there's a lot of people

dropping stuff, but he
is the most consistent right now.

- He's a really good entertainer.

I think he's just really talented
when it comes to music.

He's made a dent
in the hip hop community, for sure.

He's made his mark.

- (FBE) So Future has
blown up to huge success,

so much so that people
who might not even know

much about rap still know
or have heard some of his music.

What is it about Future's music
that you feel like those

not even into the genre
can appreciate it?

- He puts out music
that hypes you up.

He kind of has a way
of rapping about stuff

that the listeners
can grasp onto.

- He collaborates
with fantastic artists,

and together, him
and those artists make bangers.

- It's pretty chill rap.

It's a good chill vibe.

- It's really mindless music.

You don't really--
there's not much thought

behind listening to Future.

It's like a fun, I don't know,
chill thing to listen to.

- It has a huge deal
to do with the beat.

Even though they
probably might not understand

what you're saying lyrically,
if you have a really good beat,

I think that's something
that sells pretty well.

- If you're not necessarily
super involved in rap,

if you can hear a song,
and even if the lyrics don't matter,

Mask Off, I just think it has
a really nice beat

or I just like the way it sounds,
so that's a song

that I actively listen to.

- The beats he has,
plus his voice with it,

I think those two
are the biggest things

when it becomes-- it doesn't matter
if you're singing country or rap.

If you can match the background
noise you're doing,

everyone's gonna
really appreciate your talent.

- (FBE) Future has a reputation
of having a tireless work ethic,

releasing over
ten mix tapes and albums

in a relatively short period of time.

What do you think this says
about him as an artist?

- I think it's dope.

I hate waiting for music, you know?

I want-- just like video,
just like YouTube,

I want my content now.

- That says he's really passionate
about what he actually does.

He's constantly doing it
so that he doesn't become

one of those artists that's like,
"Oh, yeah, have you

heard anything
from Future recently?"

It's like, no, he's always
putting something out

so that he stays relevant.

- For him to be working
and being in the studio constantly

and, you know, releasing
all this music all the time,

one, it shows he
really cares about his fans

because I'm sure his fans
want him to release new music

all the time, and then,
again, it shows that

he's super passionate
about what he does.

- (FBE) So drug use is
a common theme in a lot of his music.

- Very common.

- (FBE) So, of course,
there's controversy around it,

with some saying that
he's glorifying drug addiction

and that it's a negative,
but others look at it,

stating that he's taking
an honest look at addiction

and it's a positive.

So do you think
these types of lyrics

really have an impact on listeners?

- I mean, I'm sure they do.

I feel like lyrics like this
could definitely have an impact,

especially on younger teenagers.

- The music, it is very--
it's one of the strongest things

that will make people
follow something,

and they become kind
of like an icon for some people,

so they want to imitate
or be like that person.

- I don't think
he's really glorifying it.

He's just saying this is
really the culture we're about.

He's not trying
to make it look cool.

- Definitely when I'm sitting
in my car on the freeway,

screaming "Molly, Percocet,"
it definitely doesn't imply

that I'm gonna go try to do molly.

- Talking about drugs or alcohol
or whatever isn't new in rap.

I don't think people should ever
take the lyrics too much to heart,

and become influenced by the music
because, after all,

it's just kind of entertainment.

- It's important
just to tell your story.

The fact that he's
doing it in his own way,

and getting, you know,
getting people talking about

drug addiction in particular,
that's something.

That's creating discussion.

- He's more of the realistic--
like why he does it.

To actually come out and be like,
"No, I'm severely depressed.

Like, I've gotten--
I've been through so much shit

that this is what's
keeping me alive,"

it brings more of an understanding
of why people do it.

- (FBE) Finally, a lot has
been said about Future's music,

notably that he genre bends.

Some say his rap
has a trap-like vibe.

- Yeah, he's a trap rapper for sure.

- (FBE) He also has
diversed in that he can do

a verse on a pop track
with Ariana Grande or Miley Cyrus,

but also have other songs
fully inside various rap genres.

Where do you think he stands
in terms of an artist in 2017

and where do you
think his trajectory is taking him?

- I mean, I feel like
he's pretty big right now.

If he decides to keep coming up,
coming out with new

innovative sounds,
then he'll keep going up.

- He's got Mask Off
right now on the radio.

He's doing great.

Honestly, right now,
collaborations are everywhere.

Everybody is collaborating
with everyone.

- I definitely see him
as a rapper.

I don't think I
would go as far as to say

that he transcends genre,
but, I mean, I think it's cool

that he is doing
collabs with pop artists.

- He already has a bunch of fans
and is so big already,

so I feel like he's probably
just gonna get even bigger.

- He can only go up from here.

That shows that
you have adaptability

and you're willing
to use your talent

in multiple venues.

- Pop is popular music,
so if you want to be

a popular musician, you're gonna
have to involve yourself in pop.

I don't think there's
any real prediction

for where he's
going to go in the future.

(chuckling) "The future."

It could really change
the entire music game

in the upcoming years,
and introduce a new genre

or revitalize a genre
of house trap music

and mixed with
a bunch of other stuff,

and he probably will be
at the forefront of that.

- What artists need to realize
in 2017 is that branching out

of your own genre is the way
you're gonna blow up.

I think, you know,
if Future continues

with his consistency in music,
and continues to collaborate

with these heavy hitters
and big names,

then there's no way
Future can go but up.

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