20 Interesting Facts You Might Not Have Known About Future

20 Interesting Facts You Might Not Have Known About Future  was originally published on ioneglobalgrind.staging.go.ione.nyc

1. His full government name is Nayvadius DeMun Wilburn.

2. “I’ll come looking for you with Haitians.” Yup, Future, 31, is actually of Haitian descent.

3. His stage name was born when members of the hip-hop musical collective, The Dungeon Family, called him “The Future.”

4. Before he was Future, he was known as Meathead of Da Connect.

5. He was shot in the right hand at the age of 14 or 15.

6. Future wrote the hook for Ludacris’ “Blueberry Yum Yum.”

7. 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.”

8. As a kid, he learned the lyrics to all of Too $hort’s songs.