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CRITIC REVIEWS
90
It’s Future’s succinct pop sensibilities here that give the tape’s woozy, syrupy songs the textures and purpose they demand, and as a result marks the imperative return of the catchy melodies and infectious hooks that merely laid dormant since the release of his sophomore album, Honest.
72
The project doesn’t feel uninspired, exactly, just rushed. The best songs on Purple Reign still capture that shivering, waking-nightmare energy.
70
While not DS2 nor What A Time To Be Alive, Purple Reign is an important Future release because it shows an artist continuing the work of discovering his best talents while also staying well within his own, now well-defined zone.
70
While Purple Reign is not a masterpiece, it is a thoughtful, if slight adjustment on the lens of where Future stands, at a crucial moment in his career.
67
Purple Reign stands as a fine mixtape by itself — neither his best nor worst recent work, it nonetheless works perfectly as a preview of what’s to come.
60
Purple Reign seeks to recapture the magic of Monster, but the intangibles that made the release so special have essentially disappeared.
I'm not sure why I bother with this guy when he keeps making mixtapes that sound as if they were made in 3 days.
Top Favorite: Purple Reign
Other Favorites: Perkys Calling, Inside The Mattress, All Right
Least Favorite: Hater Shit
Other Favorites: Perkys Calling, Inside The Mattress, All Right
Least Favorite: Hater Shit
last two tracks are brilliant but he kinda needs to mix it up soon or he's gonna stagnate HARD
Some pretty good decent tracks here. Nothing we havnt heard from future already. Fav tracks: Wicked, Drippin, Perky's Calling.
END OF YEAR LISTS
| #96 | / | Crack Magazine |
| #100 | / | Noisey |
MISC LISTS
| #21 | / | Stereogum (Rap) |
| #28 | / | Complex (First Half) |
Track List
- Purple Reign Intro
- All Right
- Wicked
- Never Forget
- Drippin (How U Luv That)
- Inside The Mattress
- Hater Shit
- Salute
- Bye Bye
- No Charge
- Run Up
- Perkys Calling
- Purple Reign
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Future Drops New Beastmode 2 Mixtape 
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New Track: Future – “Absolutely Going Brazy” 
pitchfork.com
Future Drops New Song “I.C.W.N.T” 
Added on: January 17, 2016
