Meanwhile, 11 full-length projects - including an all-platinum run of DS2 (2015), Evol (2016), and Future (2017) - debuted within the Top Five of the Billboard 200. By the end of 2017, Future had amassed 32 Top Ten R&B/hip-hop hits as a headliner and featured artist. After he scored his first hit via a guest spot on YC's 'Racks' (2011), Future quickly became a key factor in Atlanta's grip on the Billboard charts, often with production support from fellow ATL natives and dwellers such as Metro Boomin, Mike WiLL Made-It, Sonny Digital, and Southside. Known for a uniquely fluid and melodic yet mumbling vocal style, Future busted out of the South at the dawn of the 2010s with a flurry of mixtapes, high-charting albums, certified platinum singles, and contributions to several other hits as a featured artist, then continued to hover at the top of his game, both commercially and creatively, in the years that followed.
