Still Don’t Trust Future: Future’s newest album falls short of expectations

Future’s monotonous beats and lyrics make every one of his songs sound the same. But when Future’s album “We Still Don’t Trust You” came out on April 12th, I was actually optimistic. This was because I actually didn’t hate “We Don’t Trust You,” the album’s prequel. However, my hopes for another good album were quickly squashed.

The first thing I noticed was the lack of interesting featured artists. The first album had prominent artists, such as Kendrick Lamar, Travis Scott and Playboi Carti. The newer album has features from The Weeknd, J. Cole, Lil Baby and A$AP Rocky.

Having good features is a crucial part of a great album because they can give people who aren’t going to listen to the album a reason to give it a shot. The only reason that I listened to “We Don’t Trust You” was because Playboi Carti was on it. Unfortunately no feature on “We Still Don’t Trust You” does this for me.

While the feature from The Weeknd on the song “We Still Don’t Trust You” — the album’s best feature — isn’t bad, it doesn’t even come close to the major features from its prequel.

The album itself has a couple good songs and verses, but the majority of it is boring or disappointing songs.

The album starts off strong, but declines quickly with forgettable, uninspired songs like “Jealous” and “Out Of My Hands.” Two more features from The Weeknd on “All To Myself” and “Always Be My Fault” help the album a little bit, making it a little less boring. But they’re overshadowed by the mediocrity of the other songs.

The 18th song on the album is called “Red Leather”.  This should’ve been the best song on the album solely because it features J. Cole, who’s known for great feature verses on other songs. But, instead of being the best song on the album, it was one of the worst. 

The song starts with Future mumbling words incoherently. It doesn’t help that the beat sounds like it was made to be a lullaby, not a rap song. But I was willing to accept the shortcomings of Future and Metro Boomin because I assumed J. Cole would deliver. Spoiler alert: he didn’t.J. Cole’s verse sounds very similar to Future’s. While it is possible to understand what he is saying, it’s quiet and frankly very dull. It just doesn’t sound like J. Cole. 

The album does get a little better after “Red Leather.”  The songs “Nobody Knows My Struggle”, “All My Life” and “Crossed Out” were all perfectly fine songs. None of them stood out, but they were substantially better than every other song in the album. “All My Life” does have a good feature from Lil Baby, which was one of the highlights of the album, but when the album is this bad, that’s not really saying much.

The albums last three songs “Crazy Clientele”, “Show Of Hands” and “Streets Made Me A King” are more like the rest of the album. A$AP Rocky has a solid feature on “Show Of Hands,” But that’s really the only notable thing from these three songs. 

Another major thing that holds the album back is the lack of memorableness. “We Don’t Trust You” has a signature verse from Kendrick Lamar. It also contains good verses from Playboi Carti and Travis Scott, as well as some of Future’s best work. All of this gives the album great replay value. “We Still Don’t Trust You” doesn’t have anything like this.

This isn’t really a huge surprise since Future isn’t really known for his memorable lines or verses. But still, after the last album, I still expected something relatively remarkable. This album could easily be forgotten about within the next few years because it didn’t give us anything to remember.

Another issue with the album was the deviation of Future and Metro Boomin. It seemed that whenever Metro Boomin would make a good beat on a song, the next one would be completely uninspired. Or whenever Future would have a good couple of verses on a song, his next few would be tired and mumbled verses. 

For example, the song “All My Life” has one of Future’s best verses that has lyrics that aren’t mumbled, and goes with the very alien-like beat from Metro Boomin. The clear lyrics from Future as well as a feature from Lil Baby make this one of the albums best songs.

Then, Future’s “Crossed Out” was perfectly mediocre. The next song “Crazy Clientele” has a very generic beat, with some piano chords and other random sound effects in the background. Future sounds like his usual self, with uninspired lyrics that sound the same as the rest of his music.

One final complaint I have is that the album is an hour and a half. Anything over an hour is too long for an album. But an hour and a half is insane. This contributed to my dislike of the album because I just got tired of Future’s voice. About 95 percent of the album is Future mumbling or dull, quiet beats that sound more like elevator music than rap. Sitting through 90 minutes of this really made the whole experience of the album significantly worse.

Overall, this album really didn’t need to happen. I knew that the album probably wasn’t going to improve on “We Don’t Trust You”. But I still didn’t expect to fall so short of expectations. So, unless you’re a diehard Future fan, I would not recommend this album, it’s so repetitive and long that you could probably fall asleep to it if you wanted to.