BY VICTORIA WILKINSON
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Drake and Future released a collaborative mixtape on Sept. 20 entitled What a Time to be Alive. The joint mixtape contains 11 tracks and came in at number one on the Billboard Top 200.

The mixtape is Drake’s fifth number one on the Billboard Top 200 and Future’s second within only two months.

The mixtape seemed to come out at the perfect time. With both rappers being at the top of their game, Drake with his album If You’re Reading This it’s too Late and Future’s DS2 the release of this mixtape is just earning them more fame.

After Drake and Meek Mill’s Twitter dispute, Mill was supposed to collab with Future but Drake beat him to it. The mixtape was created in only six days. This put a halt to Mill’s plans on the collaboration with Future and only added fuel to the flame regarding Drake and Mill’s conflict.

The album seems to feel like more of a Future style even though Drake is getting what looks like a lot more credit because of his publicity from Meek Mill.

The tape expresses Future’s trap influences mainly, with some of Drake’s pop like sounds in the songs “Plastic Bags” and “Diamonds Dancing.”
My favorite songs are “Big Rings” and “Jumpman.”

Most tracks on the album feature both Drake and Future but each of them has one song to themselves.

Drake’s tracks are similar to his previous work but are a lot less emotional than many of his expect.