In the past two years, Future has been on a hot streak with five new projects under his belt – “Future,” “HNDRXX,” “Super Slimey,” “Beast Mode 2” and “Wrld on Drugs.” These projects have done well on the charts and proved Future’s worth in the music industry.

The Atlanta native continues the marathon by adding a sixth project to his streak. The new project and his seventh solo album is titled “Future Hndrxx Presents: The WIZRD.” “The WIZRD” introduces an aggressive and hungry side of Future by making his presence as a founding father of rap/trap known to today’s new wave of artists, but also introducing a new chapter in his life.

The album features an all-star team of producers including Tay Keith, Southside, TM88 and many more. “The WIZRD” is filled with dark, melancholic trap beats accompanied by Future’s raspy, auto-tuned vocals.

Future’s vulnerability is clearly shown on the project, like in the intro track, “Never Stop,” where he reflects on his dark past of loss and pain. In the track “Krazy But True,” Future establishes his dominance in today’s generation of music by claiming himself to be “God” and addresses the betrayal of his friends ever since his rise to success.

The essence of Future’s trap sound is heard loud and clear on this record with radiating bass and heavily materialistic lyricism with lines like “diamonds in the face crushed up, I can see it” on the track “Crushed Up.”

Future provides an abundance of fun and catchy flows on this album making it a memorable listen that is highly contagious to the ear, while providing a worthy amount of replay value with twenty tracks totaling to one hour.

I will admit that some of the tracks on this record did feel like fillers and lasted longer than they should have, but even then, after the second or third listen they grew on me a lot more. It is hard to keep the listeners’ attention when an artist decides to drop as many as 20 tracks on an album, but Future holds up well by making every track feel refreshing and energizing in a way that does not feel like hearing the same song over again.

Overall, I feel that Future did not disappoint with this new record, and it shows that he put a lot of effort into it despite dropping it only months after his collaborative mixtape, “Wrld on Drugs,” with Juice WRLD.

The production on this album is something I highly appreciate, and I instantly fell in love with songs like “Call the Coroner,” where Future raps about how he feels like a drug lord with power to have anything he desires over a hard piano-based trap beat.

As I said before, some tracks may feel like fillers on the first listen, but after a few spins, “The WIZRD” might grow on you. Go give the record a listen if you have not yet, because there are a few bangers on this album you do not want to miss.