DS2 [Deluxe Edition]

by Future

Overview

Perhaps it was the threat of Young Thug beginning to rise, but whatever the reason, 2015 was the year when Future leapt forward artistically, captivating the mixtape circuit with three releases (56 Nights, Beast Mode, and Monster) that all pushed the envelope. His massive hit "Commas" -- which only appears on the "Deluxe" version of this album -- was more of an expected move coming from a party rapper who's always drenched in Auto-Tune, and often with purple drank in hand. 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. Strange as in "I ain't got no manners for sluts/I'ma put my thumb in her butt," which he declares during the Xanax-fueled highlight "Stick Talk." Singer Miguel might make that sound smooth, but butt man Future also notes "Started sipping syrup, I've been geeked ever since." Could be true, since hallucinatory seems to be home base for everything here, including the persuasive "Rich $ex," which is Ludacris' "Pimpin' All Over the World" melting into a Salvador Dali painting. The love of drugs comes from the quest to see something new as "Groupies" declares "Sip on my cup, it's a movie/I pop a perc, it's a movie" before delivering the album's ultimate punch line, "I smoke that ooh-la-la like a Fugee." "Slave Master" is the album's bad trip, and still a highlight, as slowly dissolving keyboards and a melancholic Future pay homage to the late A$AP Yams, who died of accidental acute mixed drug intoxication, an irony the rapper seems to acknowledge by drifting over words as the song comes to a close. Even so, "I just took a piss and saw codeine comin' out" is the way he rolls, so consider this a Schedule 2 album and lock up the medicine cabinet because Future makes it sound like the gateway to a magical, luminous place. [A Deluxe CD Edition added five bonus tracks, including "Real Sisters" and "Trap Niggas."] ~ David Jeffries

Product Details

Release Date:	07/17/2015
Label:	Epic / Rca
UPC:	0888751272521

Tracks

1. Thought It Was a Drought
2. I Serve the Base
3. Where Ya At
4. Groupies
5. Lil One
6. Stick Talk
7. Freak Hoe
8. Rotation
9. Slave Master
10. Blow a Bag
11. Colossal
12. Rich $ex
13. Blood on the Money
14. Trap Niggas
15. The Percocet & Stripper Joint
16. Real Sisters
17. Kno the Meaning
18. F*ck Up Some Commas

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Future   Primary Artist,Vocals
Drake   Featured Artist

Technical Credits

Xavier Dotson   Composer
Frank Dukes   Producer
Future   Executive Producer
Glenn Schick   Mastering
J.D. Anderson   Marketing
Chris Feldmann   Design,Art Direction
Zaytoven   Producer
Seth Firkins   Mixing,Composer,Engineer
LaTrice Burnette   Marketing
Joshua Luellen   Composer
Joshua Cross   Composer
Anthony Saleh   Management
Sonny Corey Uwaezuoke   Composer
Sonny Digital   Producer
Southside   Producer
Marcelo Burlon   Stylist,Creative Director
Mauricio   Photography
Eric Manco   Engineer
Ryan Coplan   Assistant Engineer
Nayvadius Wilburn   Composer
Stephanie Yu   Music Business Affairs
Rodney Hill, Jr.   Associate Executive Producer
Adam Feeney   Composer
Dalia Glickman   A&R
Jessica Mortime   Marketing
Allen Ritter   Composer,Producer
Metro Boomin   Producer
Cassius Jay   Producer
Leland Wayne   Composer
Jermaine Pegues   A&R
Reagan Kirby   A&R
Santiago   Photography
William "BK" Kieling   Management