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Future's 'Perkys Calling' opens with a hypnotic, almost devotional chorus that lists substances and obligations in the same breath, prescription pills, codeine syrup, street corners, all rendered as voices demanding attention. The repetition builds a claustrophobic sense of competing pressures, the hook cycling through its litany without resolution.
The verses map a trajectory from hand-to-hand dealing to tour buses and private jets, the imagery toggling between luxury markers (yellow gold, Balmain denim, Rolls-Royce interiors) and the grinding mechanics of the work that funded them. Future sketches a world where cash moves like fast food, where paying tithes and chasing money sit uncomfortably close, the spiritual and the transactional bleeding into one another. The production, credited to William Harvey, leaves space around the vocal, letting the repetition do its work.
Released in 2016 as part of the 'Purple Reign' project, the track operates less as narrative than as inventory, a tally of what calls and what answers.
"Perkys Calling" is a track by Future, from the album Purple Reign, released 17th January 2016. Full lyrics are available below.
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