There is still a lot of beef between Ciara and Future. Here are more of the highlights.
Future moved to Los Angeles to live with Ciara, putting aside his deep ties to Atlanta and his perch at the top of the city’s music scene. He recorded a single with Miley Cyrus, dressing up as an astronaut in the video, and released Honest, an album that was perceived as a pop-crossover bid, despite tracks as grimy as the trap banger “Move That Dope.” He dyed his dreads blond and started walking red carpets, hitting fashion shows, smiling more in pictures. “He was with an R&B chick, you know what I’m saying?” says Mike Will. “Ciara, she didn’t even really like when people cursed.” She became unpopular among some of Future’s friends. “She was bougie as hell,” one says.
The battle looms large in Future’s mind. As he steers his black Ferrari along a freeway one afternoon, a blunt in his left hand, he lets out a weird, extended half-groan, half-laugh – it lasts maybe 15 seconds – when I remind him we’re doing his first interview since Ciara’s suit. “I can’t deal with it,” he says, eyes hidden by reflector shades. “I can’t even think about it. I never imagined my life would be like that: ‘I’m going to sue you and take away from you.'” The studio, then, becomes a place to hide, too: “I don’t know how to deal with something like that,” he says. “All I know is record, record, record, record.”