It’s not everyday an artist tops Billboard in successive weeks with two different albums.  In fact, before Future‘s February 2017 surprise back-to-back releases, ‘Future’ and ‘HNDRXX,’ it’d never been done.  In an ode to his unprecedented chart success, Billboard mag has gifted the Atlantan emcee its latest cover.

There, he dishes on former fiancee/singer Ciara, his ongoing snubs from the Recording Academy (the Grammys), and so much more.  A compelling read, tuck in to see highlights as well as the colorful photo shoot that accompanied the spread:

On relationship with Ciara:

“They had me going the cornball route!”

“I feel like everything happened for a reason,” he says. “I’m happy with life now. I’m happy with life, period, even with the end of a ­relationship being…”

“I’m just not going to settle for anything, you know? Even in my life now, I know I can be a better person. I ain’t giving up on myself, so if you give up on me, I ain’t got nothing else to say for you. Because if you give up on ­something that’s real, it wasn’t real to you.”

On ongoing Grammy snubs:

“The Grammys, they get what they get — the shit that they don’t, it’s the shit that they maybe don’t want to understand,” he says. “They’re not going to keep me from doing what I’m supposed to do as an artist.”

Click here to read the interview in full.

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