The fusion of R&B and street rap was a proven success well before HNDRXX - Ja Rule utilized the formula in the early 2000s to earn four GRAMMY nominations - but what Future did in 2017 was different. But I'ma still have street songs.”įuture changed the title of his second studio album from Future Hendrix to Honest, but songs like “I Won,” “Never Satisfied” and the album’s title track served as the soft launch for what became the world’s grand introduction to Future Hendrix years later. “They'll know that I'm not selling out…they're gonna understand that I'm doing music that was already happening. I know my fans who've been down for me from day one, they understand the growth, and they gonna know when they hear Future Hendrix ,” Future explained to HipHopDX in 2012. “I want to say will be more R&B based, but it's going to be more substance, more passion - just more down with feeling. Well before the full emergence of Future Hendrix, half a decade before HNDRXX came to fruition, Future made his desires to dive into the R&B realm - specifically with a project named after his alter ego - abundantly clear. I wouldn't know the space and timing that I would have for the music.'

'I didn't know because it was so much music coming out. I started thinking about how I wanted to put the project out,' he told Billboard in 2017. 'I just reflected on it and was thinking about doing this since the end of last summer.

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