Future X

One Liner: Connecticut rapper with solid bars

Wikipedia Genre: No Wikipedia, but this is rap, hip hop.

Home: Connecticut

Poster Position: 32 (bottom of the poster)
Weekend One Only.  Saturday.

Thoughts:  Okay, that first set of bars on his top track makes a smart James Bond reference that I liked.  Oh, hey, The Game is on that track?  This guy otherwise has, like, no streams on his tracks, except for the one with The Game.  "Mad Scientist" has 83k streams.

The opening there in that video is not in the track on Spotify, but it was cool as hell.  BUt then there is a weird interlude of his re-enacting a scene from Friday?  What is happening?  After the Friday scene, you get this track.

"The Future X" iss a pop group created by the Spice Girls creator Simon Fuller, consisting of seven members who all auditioned via TikTok.  I wish that I had not written that sentence.  And finding this guy is somewhat hard because of the existence of the gigantic rapper named Future.  And so any search turns up the famous guy and not this dude.  Like, they list collaborations as Future X Gunna, so those pop up in searches instead of this dude.  

But, with some stubbornness, I could come up with him.  Real name is Anthony Walser, he's a Connecticut rapper who actually makes some pretty solid bars. He also goes by Future Allah, apparently?  I figured that because he was on the actual bottom line of the poster that this was going to be a local guy who was getting a shot, but nope.  His Spotify bio says that growing up in Hartford, CT put him in similar circumstances as the ones described in his favorite rap albums like Jay-Z's The Blueprint.  Which is surprising.  In my mind, Connecticut is just the rich people from 80's John Hughes movies, playing tennis and driving expensive sportscars to brunch.

His first single was in 2016, but almost everything in his catalog shows zero streams on Spotify.  Like, just nothing.  A few mixtapes on Spotify - 2017's Iceman 4: Iceman Cometh, 2017's Flex N the Trap, 2018's Love Me Now 2, 2021's Iceman 5: God is Cold, and 2021's Winter Ice 2.  Very weird that each of those appears to be a sequel, and yet the original isn't streaming.  I dunno.  But here is his most recent track - "Like This" was uploaded 3 weeks ago onto YouTube.

That one is fine, but my overall impression from listening for a day or so is that this guy is pretty good.  He throws good metaphors and smart lyrics in these tracks that are missing from a lot of the currently hot rappers (looking at you Lil Durk, way up there at the top of the poster but saying nothing).