What a Time to Be Alive and Future premiered the album on Beats 1 on OVO Sound's "OVO Sound Radio" show on September 20, 2015, and weeks after it was released on the iTunes Store and Apple Music. The Summer Sixteen Tour by Drake was made to support this mixtape. "What a Time to Be Alive" received generally positive reviews from music critics. The album received a normalized metascore of 70 out of 100 on the review aggregate website Metacritic based on 24 critics. "Billboard" described Drake and Future's chemistry as expected and said "Future deals with personal demons that he tries, and fails, to drown
Right to silence swore to truthfully answer the questions to be put before them without knowing of what they were being accused. This created what has been termed the cruel trilemma whereby these accused were forced to choose between committing the mortal sin of perjury (if they lied under oath to protect themselves), harsh punishment for contempt of court (if they refused to answer), or betraying their "natural" duty of self-preservation (if they told the truth to honour their oath). Sir Edward Coke’s challenge to the ecclesiastical courts and their "ex officio" oath is seen as the origin of the right to silence.