Jumpman

Featuring Future

Jumpman is the breakout single from What a Time to Be Alive, the surprise Drake-Future collaborative mixtape released in September 2015. Produced by Metro Boomin, the track is built around a simple, springy synth motif and the kind of negative-space drum programming that came to define mid-2010s Atlanta rap. Drake and Future trade staccato verses and shout-rapped ad-libs over the beat's ascending lead line, with the chorus — built around hyperventilated repetitions of 'jumpman, jumpman, jumpman' — turning the song into a chant before anyone's verse begins. Released without traditional radio push, Jumpman became one of the biggest hip-hop songs of 2015 and peaked at number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100. It also helped establish Metro Boomin's stadium-scaling production sound and reframed Future, post-DS2, as a peer rather than a feature for Drake. The song's success was central to the larger commercial argument WATTBA was making: that two superstars could deliver a no-rollout joint project that outsold most artists' actual albums.