By quitting lean, Future was scared that he would run his fans away.
For much of Future’s career, drug use has played a huge role in his music. On many of his tracks he has condoned drug use, so when Future finally decided to kick his lean habit, he was unsure as to how to break the shocking news to his fans.
During an in-depth interview with Genius’ Rob Markman, Hendrix revealed he was scared that fans would look at his music differently if they knew he was no longer on the drug, “I don’t want to tell nobody I stopped drinking lean. I didn’t want to tell them because I felt like then they was going to be like ‘oh, his music changed because he ain’t drinking lean no more.’ Or, ‘I can hear it when he changing.’ And people be like ‘Damn, why don’t you even say it?’ But it’s hard when your fans are used to you being a certain type of way.”
Future also opened up the passing of his best friend and longtime engineer Seth Firkins, and if it has affected the way he records, “It hasn’t changed my process. But it has made me want to go harder… just looking over and not seeing him to the right of me — I was always to the left and he was on the right — still the only thing that gets to me to this day. But, besided that, I just keep recording.”
In addition, Future explained how he created his now-infamous verse on “King’s Dead”, “When I did it, I had did another verse and at then at the end I did the ‘la di da di’ part. But that was my favorite part, but I was just bullshittin’. Just playing around. So I did a verse for the song then I just did that at the end in case they wanted to keep it as like and outro or something. That’s the part I didn’t even do in the verse. I left it at the end of the song.”
Check out the interview below.
