What A Time To Be Alive

Drake & Future - What A Time To Be Alive
Critic Score
Based on 23 reviews
2015 Ratings: #647 / 1021
User Score
2015 Rank: #534
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CRITIC REVIEWS

83
Pretty Much Amazing

What a Time reminds us that music is best when it’s enjoyed when in the company of others. It’s a project that demands that the listener live vicariously through it and looks to give hope through music to those willing to listen. Nothing more, nothing less.

80
PopMatters

Though it’s not sustained over the tape’s eleven tracks, two of which are solo tracks, one for each rapper, the collaborative spirit remains the strongest selling point.

80
Spectrum Culture

The highlights of What a Time to Be Alive come when Drake and Future take advantage of their differences.

80
XXL

It’s cutting and honest and self-congratulatory and vindictive. It’s fantastically decadent and brutally real at the same time. It won’t be leaving the playlist any time soon.

80
NME

'What A Time To Be Alive' often sounds more like a Drake album than the jazzier, busier records that Future usually creates. Yet the Atlanta rapper dominates the record, demonstrating his impressive adaptability.

75
Consequence of Sound

What a Time is the sound of two of our biggest current pop figures using each other’s strengths to bring out their own.

70
The 405

After all the hype has worn off and the music is offered up on a diamond crusted platter, it's an unfortunate reality to note that What A Time To Be Alive doesn't quite hold weight as the cultural force it was expected to be.

70
HipHopDX

Drake takes his talent as a hook man to another level on What A Time To Be Alive and in putting his elevated skills alongside Future’s, he creates some truly must-listen moments.

70
SPIN

These are creative guys bouncing off a group of similar ideas and seeing where the muse takes them. It isn’t always pretty. It isn’t really innovative.

70
Sputnikmusic

Reportedly made in just six days, it's rarely, if ever, sloppy, but it never achieves perfection either. It's merely a strong collection of songs made by two unstoppable forces in their primes.

70
Rolling Stone

This is the sound of Future's Dirty South meeting Drake's Great White North, both artists playing off their louder-than-life personalities without overthinking the details.

70
Complex

Drake’s disclosure that the project was made in six days is less of an impressive stat than it is an accurate summation of what we have here: two rappers who maxed out on their chemistry and made some cool songs.

70
Pitchfork

What the tape lacks in congruence, it makes up for in glimmering Metro Boomin production.

70
AllMusic

A surprise mixtape that went from announcement to the top of the Billboard charts within a matter of a few weeks, What a Time to Be Alive is also a worthy hang session from MCs Drake and Future, one that feels instant, spontaneous, and just messy enough to keep off the top shelf.

60
The Irish Times
It’s an interesting meeting of minds, with Drake’s snarky, melancholic tones clipping at the heels of Future’s hypnotic, oddball vocals.
60
Q Magazine

This feels like a flying visit through an impromptu victory party.

60
The Needle Drop

It's decent. While a few tracks feature an equal and exciting marriage of Champagne Papi and Future Hendrix, most of what's here feels like DS2 runoff with a solid Drake feature.

60
NOW Magazine
While Future has a menacing, no-fucks vibe, Drake, going hard, sounds eager to please.
60
Clash

It's this considerable gulf in style and, it must said, quality between the two which leaves 'What A Time To Be Alive', Drake and Future's first full-length pair-up, disjointed and unfocused.

60
Billboard

What A Time to Be Alive feels more like a Future album featuring Drake.

60
Exclaim!

There's little — outside the three or four cohesive, codeine-fuelled joints surprisingly carried mostly by Future — that reaches the potential of what What a Time to Be Alive could have been.

43
Entertainment Weekly

There’s very little evidence here that makes the case for either as the game-changing superstar he actually is.

AZIZ
85

This is better than Watch the Throne ngl

LarryDavid
78

5 years ago trap music was at its peak. (DS2, Rodeo, WATTBA all in the same damn year)

ST4T1C
80

Future combines forces with Drake to make a project together, and it's pretty damn good! Future and Drake have some really great chemistry together, with tracks like "Digital Dash" and "Jumpman" being straight FIRE from both of em. I also really loved the track "Diamonds Dancing", as that track had some honestly stellar production and verses from Drake and Future, its prob one of the best tracks either of em have made! I really think this is one of the better ... read more

DJTheGamer5000
70

better than watch the throne my ass

MonkeyJumbo
50

Drake and Future literally have 0 chemistry togehter. Yall really say this is better than Watch the Throne?

Chiquipog
91

This album is such a joy to listen to due to the electric chemistry between drake and future showcased on tracks like diamonds dancing, and the production that these two are bouncing off of is amazing it ties everything together so beautifully, but the main highlight of this album is the performance from both drake and future with one never seeming to highly outclass one and both of them maintaining high quality performances throughout is absolutely incredible because of how high the quality ... read more

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Track List

1Digital Dash
3:51
79
2Big Rings
3:37
74
3Live From the Gutter
3:31
74
4Diamonds Dancing
5:14
83
5Scholarships
3:29
78
6Plastic Bag
3:22
70
7I'm the Plug
3:00
70
8Change Locations
3:40
66
9Jumpman
3:25
81
10Future - Jersey
3:08
74
11Drake - 30 for 30 Freestyle
4:13
76
Total Length: 40 minutes
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Added on: September 19, 2015