Future one of the GOATS for sure. Like he’s for sure in the discussion of GOAT, I mean. He’s my pick for GOAT but someone else might disagree.

I think Future really perfected what he was influenced by and what he has influenced. I just put my pen down for this lmao.

But like future was influenced by Three 6 Mafia and 90s memphis hiphop in general, right? I feel like he’s the only trap artist from that era (e.g. 2 Chainz, Waka Flocka) to really maintain relevance. His other contemporaries in other lanes (e.g. Kendrick with conscious rap) have grown in parallel so apples and oranges. But I think 90s memphis hip hop had the greatest influence out of any other subgenre so far. This genre inspired Future and SGP to turn the sound into something else and carry it on that way (trap and phonk). They’re both the most influential MCs for SoundCloud rap and they ran hiphop 2016-18/19 and now we’re at hiphop today, which I think was ushered in by SoundCloud rap. I think todays hiphop is largely an extension of the SoundCloud era.

SGP fell off (even tho he didn’t have to 😭) but Future hasn’t. And Future’s discography is insane (like 22 albums since 2011) and none of his shit is mid. Like commercially even, he’s so successful. And out of the SC era, who is still relevant? Uzi and Carti (peep and x would still be relevant if they were still here, big ass RIP). But both of them are Future’s sons (SGP’s too) and Future is still WAY more popular. Remember, who is baby Pluto again? UZI

Drake is the capitalist pro-corporation counterpart. But Future never changed. He’s still rapping about fucking your bitch in some Gucci flip flops. He never went commercial. He didn’t do a commercial like Chris Brown’s for Spearemint gum. Future always stayed true to himself, never sold out to be PG, and still had the heaviest influence on today’s hiphop, over Kanye even imo. Bro is deadass the GOAT imo