1. His full government name is Nayvadius DeMun Wilburn.
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2. Former fiancee Ciara has a tattoo of the letter “N” on her ring finger for Nayvadius.
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3. His stage name was born when members of the hip-hop musical collective, The Dungeon Family, called him “The Future.”
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4. He was shot in the right hand at the age of 14 or 15.
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5. Future wrote the hook for Ludacris’ “Blueberry Yum Yum.”
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6. Future is a fan of Shakespeare. He’s said, “”When I went to school, I would read Shakespeare and just fell in love with how he mixed his words. I started playing around and writing poems, reading poems.”
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7. As a kid, he learned the lyrics to all of Too $hort’s songs.