As Seen on the Internet

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As Seen on the Internet
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Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 26, 2016
Recorded2016
Genre Hip hop
Length42:32
Label
  • We're The Future Records
Producer
  • Futuristic (exec.)
  • Tyler Rohn (also exec.)
  • Cook Classics
  • Joey Castellani
  • Kato
  • King!
  • Lou Koo
  • RU AreYou
  • Stitch Jones
  • Wave Cutters
Futuristic chronology
Coast 2 Coast
(2015)
As Seen on the Internet
(2016)
What More Could You Ask for?
(2017)

As Seen on the Internet is the fifth studio album by American rapper Futuristic. It was released on August 26, 2016 through We're The Future Records. [1] The album features guest appearances from Hopsin, Devvon Terrell, Karmin and Goody Grace.

Contents

Background and promotion

In an interview with Sway Calloway, about the album, Futuristic said that:

"As Seen on the Internet" is a project that I been wanting to do forever and it's basically it came from like, I popped off from doing that nerd rap and what I did was I collab with a big YouTuber and I dropped my video on the same day and we cross promoted them. So we did that and I just got hella fans from it so I was like "If I could do that one time, what would happen if I did a whole album and every song was like that where I grabbed the biggest people from the internet that they're not even in music necessarily just big people from the internet and incorporated them into the album?". [2]

After the release of the album, Futuristic released eleven music videos all directed by Jakob Owens to promote the album. [2]

Commercial performance

The album debuted at number 116 on the Billboard 200 for the chart dated September 17, 2016. [3] It also debuted on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Rap Albums charts at number ten and eight respectively and debuted at number 200 in the Belgian Albums chart. [4] [5] [6]

Track listing

Credits are adapted from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and YouTube. [7] [8]

No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Mindcraft"
2:36
2."The Time Is Now"
  • Beck
  • Rudy Reynon III
Ru AreYou2:46
3."Do It"
  • Beck
  • Bean Lobban
Cook Classics3:17
4."Anti-Social"
  • Beck
  • Sherwin Rice III
King!3:32
5."Scrollin" (featuring Hopsin)
  • Wave Cutters
  • Rohn
3:58
6."Biggest Fan"
  • Beck
  • Rice III
King!1:10
7."Nudes" (featuring Devvon Terrell)
Joey Castellani3:15
8."No Service"
  • Beck
  • Reynon
  • Rohn
  • Ru AreYou
  • Rohn
4:04
9."Alone in the City"
  • Beck
  • Louis Bartolini
Lou Koo3:45
10."Flex" (featuring Karmin)
Cook Classics3:05
11."Next Level"
  • Beck
  • Rohn
  • Stitch Jones
  • Rohn
2:06
12."See Me Mad"
  • Beck
  • Rohn
Rohn3:06
13."Can't Go Back" (featuring Goody Grace)
  • Beck
  • Lobban
Cook Classics3:52
14."Hashtag"
  • Beck
  • Reynon
Ru AreYou2:00
Total length:42:32
Notes

Charts

Chart (2016)Peak
position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [9] 200
New Zealand Heatseekers Albums (RMNZ) [10] 10
US Billboard 200 [11] 116
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard) [12] 10

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