Future – WE DON’T TRUST YOU (Album Review)

In a Metro Boomin produced album starring Future and an array of guests, Metro’s grandiose instrumentation and production style are on full display accompanied by Future’s rapping and singsong performance for one of Metro’s less accessible album releases.

With Future brandishing unique deliveries and Metro sporting creatively risky instrumentation, this album isn’t as easy of a listen as listeners of Metro Boomin are accustomed to as the producer explores some new sounds and styles with the Atlanta rapper. With big production, instrumental switches, and a cinematic feel to the mixing, Metro Boomin offers one of his most ambitious instrumental creations that pushes the boundaries of his prior sounds.

Thematically, the album seems split into two major motifs; calling people/trends out (Rappers, rap industry, rap trends, etc.) and exuberance (Women, money, weed, etc.). While the first half of the album finds Future offering some scathing lyricism of commentating on trends while boasting his wealth, some clever and witty bars walk the line of cheeky and calling out in Future’s typical fashion.

The most scathing call out of the album comes from Kendrick Lamar’s feature in “Like That” which finds Kendrick calling out J. Cole and Drake directly from their collab track “First Person Shooter” off of Drake’s recent album ‘For All The Dogs’ from 2023.

With Kendrick easily owning the best verse out of the entire project, the album starts to shift from calling out rappers/trends to focusing more on the typical themes of the Trap genre with Future bragging about women, money, and weed for the reminder of the project. Aside from Kendrick, the album includes features from The Weeknd, Travis Scott, Playboi Carti, and Rick Ross that offer some fresh, fun, and versatile performances throughout the album, often outshining Future on his tracks.

While the first half of the album is strong due to its themes, drama, and idgaf attitude from its lyricism, the latter half begins to dip as the typical themes of the genre begin to lose the momentum gained from the first half. Future sounds good mostly throughout the album; brandishing different flows, mostly rapping and sometimes offering singsong performances, Future offers his typical cadence and effort on par with his most recent releases.

While the album begins to dip, the project is full of mostly highs and fines with there being no average or below-average tracks on the 17 song and 59 minute album. While this release might not live up to the hype of Metro Boomin’s previous release, ‘HEROES & VILLAINS’ from 2022, it is mostly on par with the quality of his discography.

Rating/Good – ‘WE DON’T TRUST YOU’ is a solid release from producer Metro Boomin and Atlanta rapper Future. With motifs ranging from calling out rappers/trends to typical luxury bragging (Women, money, weed), there are highs and fines throughout the project. Instrumentally, the album is solid throughout with Metro experimenting with different sounds and mixing that manages to maintain a cohesive feel to the entirety of the album and to his previous discography as well. With fun features included that breathe life into the album, some beefs starting with lyricism, versatile instrumentation, and tones, ‘WE DON’T TRUST YOU’ is a fun and solid release for the genre that might not garner Metro and Future new fans but will maintain the satisfaction of long-term fans.

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