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With the release of the album DS2 -- Dirty Sprite 2, named after his hit mixtape -- he becomes a hip-hop version of Lee "Scratch" Perry, a strange and yet in command figure standing at the center of a slick, inventive swirl of music.
90
DS2 finds a hellish, motivating power by articulating how it’s possible to have the best time of your life during the worst time of your life. And it all sounds so good.
90
DS2 is a uniformly awesome album, remarkable for the singularity of its vision, and it comes at absolutely the right time, when all eyes are on Future.
84
This is music for nihilists, for the reckless, for those who embrace darkness because they don’t see another option.
83
DS2 is his strongest campaign yet, and it’s the first time a new Future album has met all expectations.
83
You may have thought Future’s d-boy lyrics and machismo would get boring after three albums but they’ve been dialed all the way up to eleven on DS2, which makes for a thrilling listen from start to finish.
80
Reckless and tormented, his latest album doubles down on the darker side of his sound, and his life's personal costs. Call it More Honest Than Honest.
80
In reaching the summit of the most successful period of Future's career, DS2 is a satisfying climax to the three-peat of tapes that took the rap world by storm in a span of six months.
80
It’s brutally beautiful. It’s unrelentingly hard. It’s his best work in years.
80
DS2 just happens to be the soundtrack for the current manifesto - a modern testament to the scumbags, addicts, street bureaucrats, rap fans and nightlife culture. Because we’re all just as flawed.
80
Dirty Sprite 2 is a tremendous compendium of everything you want from a Future album in 2015.
80
In a weird twist of irony, Future’s regression from star-to-be to savage has made him bigger and better than he’s ever been.
80
On this 18-track affair, the Future who first rapped his love for codeine on the “Lemonade”-esque piano notes of “Dirty Sprite” has reemerged with a new technical flair. No Man’s Land is wrong. This minimal paradise is all Future’s.
74
Indeed, his modus operandi is the one thing that he makes fully clear in this foggy, glorious mess of an album.
70
DS2 is a heavy dose of medication as entertainment, and it's not for those with a low tolerance.
70
It has little of the far-reaching ambition of Honest, but what it lacks in bold strokes, it more than makes up for in consistency.
60
Future's latest project is shallow, but presents an alluringly druggy, lean-drenched experience.
20
In lieu of artistry or any semblance of lyrical spark, DS2 offers monotonous production and relentless chanting that might appeal to someone too fucked up to skip to the next track.
DS2 seizes the trap-hiphop style one step ahead than the upcoming rappers we see nowadays. It definitely set the trend of the new era, with it’s ice cold astronomical instrumentals & some heavy snapping snares on top. Although it was pretty unbalanced not gonna lie.
The problem I have here is that I listened to this today, which makes this album sound kinda stereotypical because its already overdone these days I think? Plus even if this style wasn't popular at that time I ... read more
The problem I have here is that I listened to this today, which makes this album sound kinda stereotypical because its already overdone these days I think? Plus even if this style wasn't popular at that time I ... read more
Future delivers one of his best bodies of work with nonstop bangers. Future has been an artist for me that went from me mostly disliking his music to now being a huge fan of many of his songs. Monster has to be one of the best trap projects I've ever heard. With DS2 he delivers another trap project with tons of hard hitting bangers. While not a Monster level project with a Codeine Crazy, DS2 however becomes one of Future's most accessible projects. The songs on this thing are very easy to get ... read more
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- Thought It Was a Drought
- I Serve the Base
- Where Ya At (feat. Drake)
- Groupies
- Lil One
- Stick Talk
- Freak Hoe
- Rotation
- Slave Master
- Blow a Bag
- Colossal
- Rich $ex
- Blood On the Money
- Trap Niggas
- The Percocet & Stripper Joint
- Real Sisters
- Kno the Meaning
- Fuck Up Some Commas
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Added on: July 11, 2015