12 Things you don’t know about Future

1.  Future’s full name Nayvadius D. Wilburn

2.  He was born November 20, 1983

3.  His name came about after members of the musical collective The Dungeon Family called him “The Future”

4.  His cousin, producer Rico Wade of the Dungeon Family, encouraged him to sharpen his writing skills and pursue a career as a rapper

5.  He soon came under the wing of Atlanta’s own Rocko who signed him to his label A-1 Recordings. Since then his work ethic has driven him to his success.

6.  From 2010 to early 2011, Future released a series of mixtapes including 1000, Dirty Sprite and True Story. The latter included the single “Tony Montana”, in reference to the Scarface film. During this time, Future also partnered with Gucci Mane on the Free Bricks collaborative album and wrote YC’s single “Racks”

7.  Future signed a major label deal with Epic Label Group in September 2011, days before the release of his next mixtape, Streetz Calling

8.  His debut album Pluto, originally planned for January, was eventually released on April 17. It included remixes of “Tony Montana” featuring Drake and “Magic” featuring T.I. According to Future, “‘Magic’ was the first record T.I. jumped on when he came outta jail. Like, he was out of jail a day and he jumped straight on the ‘Magic’ record without me even knowing about it.” The track became Future’s first single to enter the Billboard Hot 100 chart

9.  In 2012, Future wrote, produced and was featured on “Loveeeeeee Song” taken from Barbadian singer Rihanna’s seventh studio album Unapologetic.

10.  On January 15, 2013, Future released the compilation mixtape F.B.G.: The Movie which features the artists signed to his Freebandz label: Young Scooter, Slice9, Casino, Mexico Rann and Maceo. It was certified platinum for having over 250,000 downloads on popular mixtape site DatPiff

11.  Future said of his second studio album Future Hendrix it will be a more substantive musical affair than his debut album and will feature R&B music along with his usual “street bangers”. The album will be released in early 2014.The album will feature Kanye West, Rihanna, Drake, Kelly Rowland, Ciara, Jeremih, Andre 3000, and Diplo, among others. Including same productions from Mike WiLL Made It, Sonny Digital, Will-A-Fool, DJ Spinz & more. Also Pharrell Williams will produce a song for the album

12.  On October 28, 2013, Future and Ciara announced their engagement