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Future

TEFLON DON

Release date: 20th September 2024

From MIXTAPE PLUTO
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About This Track

Future opens 'Teflon Don' with the orchestral swell of a Godfather sample, a deliberate invocation of untouchable power. The production, handled by Southside, London on da Track, AyoPeeb, Topp, FBG Goat, Desro and MoXart Beatz, sits heavy beneath his boasts about legal victories and street dominion. He moves through the track with the ease of someone who has already won, the chorus a simple declaration: "Beat the first case like John Gotti." The verses are dense with imagery of wealth, violence and control. Future stacks claims of luxury and threat in quick succession, the lyrics cataloguing designer labels, firearms and the casual exercise of power over his surroundings. There is no narrative arc here, no character development; instead, the song functions as a series of assertions, each one designed to reinforce the same basic message. The production gives him room to breathe, the samples and layered beats creating space for his voice to sit comfortably atop the mix. 'Teflon Don' serves as the opening track to Mixtape Pluto, establishing the project's tone of uncompromising bravado and street mythology. It is the sound of someone entirely convinced of his own invulnerability.

"TEFLON DON" is a track by Future, from the album MIXTAPE PLUTO, released 20th September 2024. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Future

Future

Lyrics

TEFLON DON

[Pre-Chorus]

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Beat the first case like John Gotti, woah

Beat the first case like

[Chorus]

Beat the first case like John Gotti

Anything you want, my dogs got

Bitch, I'm a boss, I call shot

Spread a few bands at the raw spot (Boy, you been)

[Verse]

Got the rock poppin' at the hotel

Ready, run a play for a whole bail (How you get—)

'Fore it hit the plate, make the house smell

Throwin' up trays and Margiela

Once I'm in the chain, need an Advil (Freebandz, nigga)

Motion on motion, that's how I feel

Came from the field, I'ma crash first (Fuck all the opps)

Makе your mama cry, gotta hit her where it hurts (Grrt, grrt)

Thеy come from my side, they gon' shoot up the church

From nine to five, got nine goin' bezerk (Ayy, say gang)

I'm goin' on a mission, I'm stayin' alert

I'm the man on the streets, chop the top off the vert (Plutoski)

Bitch, you feelin' me? Bitch, I'm feelin' me too, got the energy

Turn a ho on a stroll out in Tennessee

I control all the motion, it been beneath

Really crunk up the shit, talkin' V-nee-nee

All my bitches be turnt, that Cha-nee-nee

I got stripes on the turf, ain't no kiddin' me

Got my ice on the dirt, is you shittin' me?

Got the load on the boat, dropped the pin in it

Hit the nitro, the motor, I'm pushin' it (Freebandz)

I don't want a recorder, two hundred me

I'm on top of this shit, killers under me

Might just fuck up the money on a tragedy

You put bread on a dummy for threatenin' me (Murk)

Put that tape on a drummy and press delete

He was drivin', his brain was sittin' on the seat

I fly dope out the country to TrestleTree (Woo)

I been flyer than a pilot, I got the key

Fuck it, put them narcotics back on the street

Run the block, we gon' snatch you a Cuban link (Ski)

Tote two Dracos on me 'cause the trench in me (Ski)

Hear my chains when they clank 'cause I'm turnin' up (Freebandz)

See the money you get, I be burnin' up

That's a forty on the fit, I put on the stuff (Slatt)

I went out and went got it when time was tough (Slatt)

I whooped up a Bugatti, this one for Chuck

Free my brothers forever, it's only us

Ain't no love for the others, we set 'em up

Grrt, grrt, ski

[Pre-Chorus]

Plutoski, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Beat the first case like John Gotti, woah

Beat the first case like

[Chorus]

Beat the first case like John Gotti

Anything you want, my dogs got

Bitch, I'm a boss, I call shot

Spread a few bands at the raw spot (MIXTAPE PLUTO)

[Outro]

Yeah, yeah, ski

Yeah, yeah, ski

Ski

MIXTAPE PLUTO

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Track details

From MIXTAPE PLUTO

2024
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MIXTAPE PLUTO
MIXTAPE PLUTO
Future
Release year
2024
  1. —BRAZZIER
  2. —PRESS THE BUTTON
  3. —SKI
  4. —TOLD MY
  5. —SURFING A TSUNAMI
  6. —TOO FAST
  7. —PLUTOSKI
  8. —LIL DEMON
  9. —TEFLON DON
  10. —OATH
  11. —READY TO COOK UP
  12. —MJ
  13. —SOUTH OF FRANCE
  14. —LOST MY DOG
  15. —OCEAN
  16. —MADE MY HOE FAINT
  17. —SOUTH OF FRANCE (REMIX)

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer
Desro, FBG Goat, Future, London on da Track, MoXart Beatz, Nino Rota, Peeb, Southside, Topp
Producer
Desro, London on da Track, MoXart Beatz, Peeb, Southside, Topp
Assistant Engineer
Aaron Fugeri, Dylan Spence, James Dunn, Kai Sato
Mastering Engineer
Demitrius Lewis II, Nicolas de Porcel
Mixing Engineer
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Recording Engineer
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