Wale has given Future his flowers, crowning the lure titan a prime 10 rapper of all time.
The D.C. rapper seems to be a fan of Hendrix’s newest effort Mixtape Pluto as he took to X (previously Twitter) on Monday (September 30) to heap excessive reward on the Freebandz boss.
“Future means a lot to Hiphop. A prime ten. Im not debating that one,” he wrote.
Wale’s opinion appeared to ruffle feathers amongst those that weren’t as captivated with Future’s rating amongst rap’s all-time greats, however he refused to again down.
In a second put up, he added: “I acquired some of us fired up right this moment … I seen.. excuse me for havin a various palette … artwork is subjective. Im listening to The Seashore Boys proper every now and then Devin the dude. Yall like what yall preferred…see yall on the street [blue heart emoji, moon emoji].”
Future means a lot to Hiphop . A prime ten . Im not debating that one
— Wale (@Wale) September 30, 2024
I acquired some of us fired up right this moment … I seen.. excuse me for havin a various palette … artwork is subjective . Im listening to The Seashore Boys proper every now and then Devin the dude . Yall like what yall preferred…see yall on the street 💙🌙
— Wale (@Wale) September 30, 2024
There’s not less than one different Hip Hop determine that agrees with Wale.
Again in April, Charlamagne Tha God declared Future probably the most influential rapper of the final decade.
Talking on his Sensible Idiots podcast with Andrew Schulz, the radio persona argued that the “March Insanity” hitmaker belongs in the identical dialog because the so-called “Large Three” of Drake, Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole.
“They speaking a few Large Three however actually there’s a Improbable 4. In case you actually wanna get a little bit spicy, Future might be within the Large Three,” he mentioned.
He then pointed to Future’s affect, saying: “For higher or worse, I can discover 1,000,000 Future clones all all over the world. I don’t suppose there’s any rapper that’s influenced tradition and music greater than Future over the past decade. I feel Future has affect. Folks wanna be Future, folks wanna sound like Future.”
Charlamagne additionally cited a number of the rapper’s newer achievements, together with concurrently topping the Billboard 200 and Billboard Scorching 100 together with his joint album with Metro Boomin, We Don’t Belief You, and Kendrick-assisted hit “Like That.”
“I’d have Drake, Future, Kendrick, personally,” he added, nudging J. Cole out of the highest three. “Statistically, when you’re speaking about numbers and all of that, Future’s over Cole.”
Charlamagne did, nonetheless, acknowledge that Cole is a stronger lyricist than Pluto.
Future has additionally beforehand referred to as himself a prime 5 rapper of all time.
In a chest-thumping social media put up again in 2018, he shared an image of himself in a fur coat together with the caption: “Prime 5 lifeless or alive and I’m #1.”