Futures real name is Nayvadius Cash, he was born on the 20th of November 1983 in Atlanta Georgia. Growing up in Kirkwood also known as Lil Mexico with his brother Casino and childhood friend Young Scooter, both are Freebandz rappers today.
His stage name was giving by a member of the Dungeon Family, who called him “The Future”. His cousin Rico Wade also member of the Dungeon Family was some sort of a mentor and encouraged him to pursue a career as musician.
Life
Future moved at the age of 7 with his family to Atlanta. The childhood of future is filled with hardships, his father left the family when Future was 10 years old. His mother was working all day so he spent a lot of time with his grandmother, who mainly raised him. Futures grandfather encouraged him to start spending time with his cousin Rico Wade, hoping that will keep him out of trouble, since his friends started to be involved in illegal activities. This was around 2001 and gave future the ability to get some first hands on experience in the music industry.
So the Dungeon Family was only partly successful. When you follow his lyrics and interviews you get an idea what Future have witnessed. To get shot in the hand when he was 17, mentioned in an interview with “djvlad“, changed his persona dramatically in the wrong direction. He also gave a picture of how he grew up running corners, literally did everything to get money.
At one time Future must have realized that this life will get him nowhere except of prison or graveyard. His passion and talent for music was the key to get out of the hood. From 2009 Future stayed every day in the studio. It’s remarkable that there was a time when Future had to force himself to work on his rap career full time and let the streets beside. He described this situation as a hard time, because the rap money was coming really slow and he was used to have money since he was a child hustling for it, now doing shows for free to just get his name out, didn’t always feel right.
The track “You Deserve it” gives you a good impression of the situation:
Music Style
Future has a broad style of making music. He described it as timeless, turn up or astronaut music. From heavy based sounding hardcore trap music like the hit single “Same Damn Time” to love songs like “Neva End”, Future does it all and by excellence. And it’s hard to deny, that from a musical stand of view Future is a genius to transport all the energy and the feelings of the track to the listeners and that’s probably the reason why he made so much hits. Not only listeners get inspired also other artists like Drake who was inspired by Future to make a song called “Started from the Bottom”.
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