This was syrup and Molly rap from the peak era of syrup and Molly. Not to mention that it was one of the few records ever that was about drugs that made you feel like you were on drugs. It could literally be everything you wanted it to be: the pop-rap radio slammer (“Move that Dope,” “Honest”), the “I’ll step on your throat” street record (“Karate Chop,” “Shit”), the southern fried posse cut (“Benz Friendz (Whatchutola)”). For my money, it’s the peak of that Trap&B sound of that era of Atlanta, and was widescreen enough to include classic guest star turns from Pusha-T, André 3000, and well, Casino. The pump was primed, as they say.Īnd then Honest came out and.

from 2011-2020 - and he kept saying it was going to be a classic, a big Blockbuster of an album that stood alongside albums from his Big Brothers Outkast. In every interview, which would cause wildfires of speculation on Twitter, Future played up how he was going to lean into the R&B that made him into a crossover smash - “Turn on the Lights” was a religious experience every time I heard it out at 2 a.m. Future’s then-new album was originally titled Future Hendrix and had been rumored to be imminent for the better part of two years by then. He was bigger than Uzi, he was bigger than Carti, he was bigger than anyone you could think of. And what’s hard to overstate now, in the wake of the six years since, is how huge Future was on the rap internet in 2014. In those days, we both lived in Madison, Wisconsin, but more accurately, we lived on Twitter. Andrew Winistorfer: Michael, I write to you today from day 50-11 of social isolation, to ponder an existential question that has vexed me re: the rap internet since, say, late 2014: Is Future’s Honest the least-respected classic in rap music of the 2010s? But before we get there, we have to go back, no Kate, to early 2014, before Future released Honest at all.

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