Future is one of the mst popular rappers. His networth is estimated up to $62 million.
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- His full name is Nayvadius DeMun Wilburn.
- He was born on November 20th, 1983.
- As of 2022 he is 39 years old.
- He better known by the stage name Future.
- His zodiac sign is Scorpio.
- He is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter.
- He is known for his mumble-styles vocals and prolific output.
- He is considered a pioneer of the use of melody and vocal effects in modern trap music.
- Due to the sustained contemporary popularity of his musical style, Future is regarded as one of the most influential rappers of his generation.
- He was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia.
- He attended Columbia High School in Decatur, Georgia.
- Future began using his stage name while performing as one of the members of the musical collective The Dungeon Family, where he was nicknamed “The Future”.
- His first cousin, record producer, and Dungeon Family member Rico Wade, encouraged him to sharpen his writing skills and pursue a career as a rapper, which could also be used to create temporary respite from street life.
- Future voices his praise of Wade’s musical influence and instruction, calling him the “mastermind” behind his sound.
- He soon came under the wing of fellow Atlanta rapper Rocko, who signed Future to his label, A1 Recordings.
- From 2010 to early 2011, Future released a series of mixtapes including 1000, Dirty Sprite and True Story.
- The latter included the single “Tony Montana”, in reference to the Scarface film.
- During that time, Future was also partnering with rapper Gucci Mane on their collaborative album Free Bricks, and co-wrote and featured on YC’s single “Racks”.
- He gained popularity after his songs were played by DJ Esco at Magic City, a strip club in Atlanta deemed “largely responsible for launching the careers of artists.”
- Future signed a recording contract with A1 Recordings and Epic Records in 2011, and released the albums Pluto (2012) and Honest (2014), which contained the platinum singles “Turn On the Lights”, “Honest”, “Move That Dope”, and “I Won”.
- He then achieved major critical and commercial success with DS2 (2015) and its singles “Fuck Up Some Commas” and “Where Ya At”, and followed it with Evol (2016) and the lead single “Low Life”.
- Future’s eponymous fifth album and its successor Hndrxx (both 2017) made him the first artist since 2014 to debut two albums in consecutive weeks atop the US Billboard 200. The former contained the international hits “Used to This” and “Mask Off”.
- Future is the father of at least eight children, each with different women.
- He has also adopted the son of one of the mothers of his daughter.
- In October 2013, Future was engaged to Ciara, who is the mother of one of his sons, but she ended the engagement in August 2014 due to his infidelity.
- In 2016, Future was sued by both Jessica Smith and Ciara.
- Smith sued him for failing to pay child support, stating their son “suffers from emotional and behavioral issues stemming from Future’s neglect as a father”.
- Ciara sued him for defamation, slander, and libel.
- In October 2016, a judge said that Future’s string of tweets bashing Ciara did not relate to the $15 million she was asking for.
- In 2019, two women from Florida and Texas respectively filed paternity suits claiming that Future was the father of their respective daughter and son.
- In 2020, the Texas woman dropped her paternity suit
- Future is one of the richest and highest earning music artist and rapper in the world with over $15 million annual income.
- His net worth is estimated up to 62 million dollars.
- Former fiancee Ciara has a tattoo of the letter “N” on her ring finger for Nayvadius.
- He was shot in the right hand at the age of 14 or 15.
- Future wrote the hook for Ludacris’ “Blueberry Yum Yum.”
- Future is a fan of Shakespeare. He’s said, “”When I went to school, I would read Shakespeare and just fell in love with how he mixed his words. I started playing around and writing poems, reading poems.”
- As a kid, he learned the lyrics to all of Too $hort’s songs.
- uture makes prevalent use of Auto-Tune in his songs, both rapping and singing with the effect.
- American rapper T-Pain, who also uses that audio processor, criticized Future’s unconventional use of it in 2014. In response, Future stated in an interview that “when I first used Auto-Tune, I never used it to sing. I wasn’t using it the way T-Pain was. I used it to rap because it makes my voice sound grittier. Now everybody wants to rap in Auto-Tune. Future’s not everybody.”
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