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Future's "Use Me," the Most Beautiful Song Ever Recorded, Now Has a Video

This is what it looks—and sounds—like to grapple with your demons.

"From this point on you don't have to deal with your past," Future sings, almost as an afterthought, in "Use Me," the most beautiful song on the resolutely beautiful HENDRXX, the now-number one album he released on February 24. In the context of the lyrics, it's romantic—Future is offering to take away his partner's stress of dealing with her kids' father. But it's also Future's ideal fantasy (after all, he's literally named for the opposite of the past): that painful memories might lose their power over the present.

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It's that fantasy that dictates the story of the video for "Use Me," which shows Future alone in a run-down diner, seemingly grappling with his demons. A young boy who looks suspiciously like a young Future shows up in a luxury car and joins Future at the table, eventually getting the rapper to leave and taking him for a drive. The kid drives Future to the scene of a stick-up, and we hear what sounds like an interview clip of Future playing in the background: "When I was young, like, I was in one of those houses, a drug house, where you'd kind of always get busted, police run in there. It was my grandma's house," he says, as the camera pans to a shot of the same kid sitting on the couch and witnessing the robbery.

You can draw your own conclusions about what this means, but one obvious interpretation is that it is a tidy visual metaphor for Future reckoning with his own past. The kid is there in some shots and not there in others, suggesting everything is happening in Future's head. And if you know anything about Future, you know that "inside of his head" is a dark place full of plenty of tortured memories. "Use Me" is a song that sounds like a spiritual cleansing, with a beat built around airy vocals reverberating like some memory of a choir in a cathedral. Now it has a suitably resonant video to match. Watch it below:

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