Terrace Martin is a multi-instrumental jazz wizard, a Grammy-winning rap producer, an inspiration to Barack Obama, and, apparently, an unstoppable workaholic. If you haven't heard his work with modern jazz heroes Christian Scott and Robert Glasper, you've felt his presence on YG's Still Brazy and, most notably, Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly. With one foot in hip-hop and one in jazz—the lines between the two would not have been so completely blurred over the past couple years if it weren't for him—it's no surprise that Martin has jumped in to remix Future's "Mask Off." He overlays the flutes with saxophone, then heavily synthesized vocals, retaining Metro Boomin's beat intact beneath his flourishes. Future's voice is gone completely from Martin's take, so the dastardly nonchalance of the original is replaced by the sound of your innocence disappearing.Listen to it below.
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