Digital Dash

Featuring Future

'Digital Dash' opens What a Time to Be Alive, the 2015 collaborative project between Drake and Future, produced by Metro Boomin. The song is widely read as a statement of intent: a dark, propulsive opener that signals Drake fully adopting the Atlanta trap idiom of Future and Metro Boomin rather than the other way around. Future leads much of the energy here, and the track functions as a tone-setter, fast, aggressive, and minimal, establishing the tape's collision of two distinct styles. As the first thing listeners hear on a project recorded quickly during a creatively explosive moment, it reads as a deliberate signal that the collaboration would lean into Future and Metro's sonic world.