Future Inspires Musicians to Take Part in Incredible #MaskOffChallenge

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The flute is finally getting the respect it deserves. Thanks to Future‘s “Mask Off,” taken from this year’s very good self-titled album, a single sampled flute has inspired a new social media challenge. The growing #MaskOffChallenge hashtag puts black musicians in the spotlight with flute, recorder, violin, and piano covers of the Metro Boomin and Southside-produced cut.

The covers, spotted early by Fader, range from mind-blowingly great to hilariously tongue-in-cheek. Check out some of our favorites:

The particular flute section in question comes from Tommy Butler’s “Prison Song,” a selection off the 1976 release Selma Album: A Musical Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 

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Both Future’s self-titled album, home to “Mask Off,” and its immediate follow-up HNDRXX topped the Billboard 200. The back-to-back No. 1 debuts made history, giving Future the distinction of being the first artist in the chart’s six-decade history to pull it off. HNDRXX debuted with 121,00 equivalent units, while the self-titled release opened with 140,000.

Source Complex

“I’m so far ahead of my time; I’m bout to start another life/ Look behind you, I’m bout to pass you twice.”- Jay Z

“Youngins ice grillin’ me, oh you not feeling me/Fine, it cost you nothing/Pay me no mind”

“I’d rather die enormous than live dormant”

“They giveth and they taketh life is cruel that way/But even a broken clock is right at least two times a day”

“A wise man told me don’t argue with fools, cause people from a distance can’t tell who is who.”

“Swear to everything, when I leave this Earth, it’s gon’ be on both feet, never knees in the dirt”

“No one said it would be easy, n**** livin’ is work”

“I’m not afraid of dying, I’m afraid of not trying”

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