QUESTLOVE REMINDS THE WORLD BLACK THOUGHT EXISTS AFTER FUTURE IS CROWNED 'BEST RAPPER ALIVE' BY 'GQ'

GQ unveiled Future as their May 2022 cover star on Tuesday (April 19), and the issue caused quite a stir thanks to the cover story’s bold headline: “Future Is the Best Rapper Alive.”

“When you survey the Hip Hop landscape, no other artist has been as consistently excellent, or as influential, for as long as he has,” veteran rap journalist Elliott Wilson writes while pointing to Kanye West’s Drink Champs declaration that “Future is the most influential artist of the past 10 years.”

“He invented his own sound, which has since become the dominant style in rap,” Wilson continues. “He has delivered hit after hit after hit. And he’s done it all on his own terms. I’ll say it again: Future is the best rapper alive.”

However, not everybody agrees with that assessment. On Tuesday, Questlove took to Twitter to share his seemingly speechless reaction to GQ’s declaration, quote-tweeting the cover story with a simple full stop.

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