Future Hendrix Research Paper

Nayvadius DeMun Wilburn also known as Future Hendrix was born November 20, 1983 in Atlanta, Georgia. Wilburn first became involved in music as part of the Dungeon Family, where he received the nickname “Future”. After amassing a series of mixtapes between 2010 and 2011, Future signed a major-label deal with Epics Records and A1 Recordings, which helped launch Future’s own label imprint, Freebandz. He subsequently began working on his debut album Pluto, and in April of 2012 released the album to positive reviews. The album spawned five singles, all of which charted on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Future’s second album, Honest, was released in April of 2014, where it surpassed his debut on the Billboard 200 chart. He unexpectedly released

He began using his stage name while performing as one of the members of the musical collective The Dungeon Family, where he was nicknamed "The Future." His first cousin, a record producer named Rico Wade who was also a member of The Dungeon Family, encouraged him to sharpen his writing skills and pursue a career as a rapper. He attended Columbia High School. Future voices his praise of Wade's musical influence and instruction, calling him the “mastermind” behind his sound. He soon came under the wing of Atlanta's own Rocko who signed him to his label A-1 Recordings. Since then his work ethic has driven him to his success. From 2010 to early 2011, Future released a series of mixtapes including 1000, Dirty Sprite and True Story. The latter included the single "Tony Montana", in reference to the Scarface film. During that time, Future was also partnering with a fellow rapper Gucci Mane on their collaborative album Free Bricks, and co-wrote YC's single

Pitchfork Media wrote that Future "miraculously shows that it's still possible for Auto-Tune to be an interesting artistic tool," stating that he "finds a multitude of ways for the software to accentuate and color emotion." Rapper T pain, who also uses that audio processor, criticized Future's unconventional use of it in 2014. In response, Future stated in an interview that "when I first used Auto-Tune, I never used it to sing. I wasn’t using it the way T-Pain was. I used it to rap because it makes my voice sound grittier. Now everybody wants to rap in Auto-Tune. Future’s not everybody.” Future's music has been characterized as trap