How Future Rewrote Rap in His Own Image

It isn’t hyperbole to claim that the rapper is one of the 2010s’ most essential artists. Narcotized, addled, and sometimes tender, Future has spent the past decade making whatever music he wants: trap ballads, twerk anthems, petty kiss-offs, trippy blues. His superpower is his ability to smear emotional states into odd collages, his protean voice ascending to the peaks of exuberance or plunging to the depths of misery. In a single moment, a Future song can pivot into the sublime, altering what came before it and everything after. Future is chaos unleashed and distilled. Though he’s got fewer Grammys than

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The Big Read – Juice Wrld: “The rap game is so motherfucking soft now”

He went from unknown Illinois teen to Billboard-topping emo-rap icon in under a year, and his introspective, genre-mashing music draws on both Nirvana and Migos, offering up admirably honest rhymes about mental health, drugs and heartbreak. 20-year-old Juice WRLD, a self-proclaimed “old soul”, tells Jordan Bassett about his love of mid-noughties emo, his relationship with XXXTentacion, getting sued by Sting and disastrous shows with Nicki Minaj. PHOTOS: Andy Ford. Juice WRLD’s NME Big Read shoot is a family affair. In the plush basement of a central London hotel, his mum sitting a few feet away, tucking into a steak, the

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AMG

Jason Lewis (born 29 September 1970), better known by his stage name AMG, is an American rapper and record producer. He moved to the Los Angeles suburb of Inglewood in 1985. He is known for his sexually explicit lyrics, and most notably for songs like “Bitch Betta Have My Money” and “Jiggable Pie”. AMG released his debut album Bitch Betta Have My Money in 1991, followed by Ballin’ Outta Control four years later. His third album, Bitch Betta Have My Money 2001, was released in 2000 and is his only album to not be completely produced by himself. In 2006, he formed the duo The

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