“Tryna make better decisions, tryna be more consistent, yeah,” Future dreamily sings. On “I Don’t Wanna Break Up,” it’s bizarre hearing someone as self-serious as Future right after Uzi goes full pop-punk on the chorus. If a project from Future and Lil Uzi didn’t spend some time trying to get their exes to fall back in love with them, it wouldn’t be a project from them at all. But even with all this super-charged energy, it’s hard to ignore the moments where Future lags behind, like his unimaginative hook from “Sleeping on the Floor.” They talk about owing money to Elliot Eliantte and buying out stores in Paris as if these were regular occurrences.

As the album goes on, their designer lifestyle gets even more animated and expensive. “I push a button, the car drive by itself,” Future immediately fires back.

“I push a button my car need no keys,” Uzi says with a carefree shrug. On “Marni on Me,” they trade bars over ominous whistles, trying to one-up the other with uncounterable flexes. What Uzi brings to Pluto x Baby Pluto is a revitalizing energy that makes Future wake up for the first time since The WIZRD. The chaotic tracklist puts producers like WOD’s Brandon Finessin and NeilaWorld’s Lukrative, who first rose to prominence on SoundCloud, on the same album as Atlanta veterans like Zaytoven. The cheery horns and rattling drums of “Bankroll” sound like they were ripped straight from a Stunt Taylor mixtape. Future sounds just as comfortable over the cartoony, electronic Working on Dying production as he does on DJ Esco’s racing melodies. They warmly embrace each other’s production choices on here. However, Pluto x Baby Pluto is more than a slight improvement from their earlier missteps-it’s like watching two friends trade lives for a day. A collab album from Uzi and the man who inspired his Baby Pluto persona felt inevitable after they appeared on each other’s albums, but the disappointing two-pack of “Patek” and “Over Your Head” from this summer left much to be desired. One of the only highlights from High Off Life was the bubbly, Uzi-featuring “ All Bad,” a strange yet welcome breath of fresh air that felt like an Eternal Atake cast-off. On the other hand, Future’s most recent release was High Off Life, a record in which he sounded nearly asleep, as if operating on autopilot. Uzi’s still hot off Eternal Atake, one of the year’s best rap albums, and its star-studded B-side, LUV vs. Future and Lil Uzi Vert might as well be on two different planets right now.

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