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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.
VERDICT: For a mixtape it's got a consistent feeling throughout. Production stays solid and Future shows up
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'AMAZING' TIER: Perkys Calling, Purple Reign, Wicked
'GREAT' TIER: Salute, Inside the Mattress
'GOOD' TIER: No Charge, All Right, Run Up
'AVERAGE' TIER: Drippin', Never Forget
'NOT GOOD' TIER: Bye Bye, Hater Shit
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'AMAZING' TIER: Perkys Calling, Purple Reign, Wicked
'GREAT' TIER: Salute, Inside the Mattress
'GOOD' TIER: No Charge, All Right, Run Up
'AVERAGE' TIER: Drippin', Never Forget
'NOT GOOD' TIER: Bye Bye, Hater Shit
it's a slight step down from the four-peat, but future is definitely more straight-forward and focused on this effort. it's a sad tape, really, and if anyone still thinks future is promoting drug use in his music this tape should put that to sleep.
"Purple Reign" is Future's first real slip in some time, weirdly empty and uninteresting mixtape.
Year End 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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Added on: January 17, 2016
