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Future moves through 'Baptiize' with the swagger of someone for whom excess has become routine. The track opens on a simple premise: wealth as ritual, diamonds as devotion. He stacks references to luxury goods and designer labels across the verses, each name-check another brick in a narrative of ascent from the street to the penthouse. The repetition is deliberate, almost meditative, turning material accumulation into a kind of incantation. What keeps the song from collapsing into pure flex is the undercurrent of paranoia and emotional distance running through it. Future admits to having sold drugs, to keeping weapons close, to playing emotional camouflage. Money, he suggests, is the only thing that excites him anymore. The women in his orbit become extensions of his wealth; he buys their devotion and calls it love. It is a bleak picture dressed up in Bentaygas and canary diamonds, a portrait of someone who has won the material game and found it hollow.
"Baptiize" is a track by Future, from the album Future Hndrxx Presents: The WIZRD, released 18th January 2019. Full lyrics are available below.
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