Purple Reign
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Original cover using the font of Purple Rain by Prince. Reissue changes it to avoid copyright infringement. | ||||
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| Released | January 17, 2016 | |||
| Recorded | 2015 | |||
| Genre | Trap | |||
| Length | 40:15 | |||
| Label | Freebandz | |||
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Purple Reign is the sixteenth mixtape by American rapper Future, hosted and executive-produced by DJ Esco and Metro Boomin. It was released on January 17, 2016, with an 11-hour notice via LiveMixtapes and DatPiff. It is Future's first non-commercial mixtape since the mixtape trilogy Monster (2014), Beast Mode, and 56 Nights (2015). Purple Reign follows the commercial collaborative mixtape What a Time to Be Alive with Canadian rapper Drake. The mixtape features production from frequent collaborators Metro Boomin, Southside, Zaytoven, DJ Spinz, and Nard & B, among others. The title and cover font is a tribute to Prince's landmark 1984 album Purple Rain, which is stylized in the same fashion.
The single "Wicked" would later be included on streaming editions of Future's fourth studio album, Evol, which released a month after Purple Reign. The mixtape was re-released for streaming platforms on April 16, 2020, with different cover art, without the "Intro", "Wicked" and including the song "News or Something".