Pretty much the only complaint is that, similar to all of his releases since the infamous EVOL, it delivers and lives up to the hype, but it doesn't build and surpass his previous work.
High Off Life is Future at his most optimistic, as the man from Pluto decides to send out a positive message.
His capacity for career reinvention should be boundless, but the familiarity and fan-friendliness of High Off Life put such big creative decisions off for another time.
Despite its glimpses of greatness ... this album revisits too many of the rapper’s trademark themes to truly make good on his jubilant pre-release promises.
For the man who elevated devastated depravity into his own art form, it can’t help but feel a bit disappointing to watch him continue to coast.
At face value, High Off Life is a by-the-numbers Future release. There’s still something for everybody, even if the album isn’t as condensed as it should’ve been. If he wasn’t chasing streams, we could be talking about a typical mixtape classic from one of our trap gods. But instead, much like in the case of his lifestyle, Future continues to chase the excess.
Rap has been around for four decades now, and you might have hoped it would have evolved beyond this kind of backwards, deeply misogynist, abusively macho, greed- and status-obsessed posturing.
High Off Life finds Future running on the fumes of the style he helped popularize several years ago.
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