Teflon Don (song)

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"Teflon Don"
Song by Future
from the album Mixtape Pluto
ReleasedSeptember 20, 2024
Genre Trap
Length2:39
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"Teflon Don" is a song by American rapper Future from his seventeenth mixtape Mixtape Pluto (2024). It was produced by Southside, London on da Track, AyoPeeb, Topp, FBG Goat, Desro and MoXart Beatz. The song samples "Love Theme from The Godfather".

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Composition

The song opens with the theme from the 1972 film The Godfather , preceding a trap instrumental. [1] Future also references his line on "Bugatti" by Ace Hood. [2]

Critical reception

Gabriel Bras Nevares of HotNewHipHop remarked that the song "stuns with its in-and-out operatic samples (plus a dynamic vocal delivery)". [3] Paul A. Thompson of Pitchfork wrote that the song's "stretches" have "fine-watch precision" and "are meant to be purely percussive". [4]

Charts

Chart performance for "Teflon Don"
Chart (2024)Peak
position
Canada (Canadian Hot 100) [5] 53
New Zealand Hot Singles (RMNZ) [6] 2
Global 200 ( Billboard ) [7] 39
UK Singles (OCC) [8] 54
US Billboard Hot 100 [9] 21
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs ( Billboard ) [10] 3

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