Metro Boomin Says 'Personal Issue' With Drake That 'Really Hurt' Led To Their Beef

You might remember that Future and Metro Boomin hit two-fer We Don't Trust You and it's the follow up album, We Still Don't Trust Youshots were fired at Drake. Not only from the two stars whose names were on the cover, but also from The Weeknd, A$AP Rocky and Kendrick Lamar. At the time, the flurry of disagreements came as a surprise to some, since Drizzy had worked with all parties in the past, even if some of those relationships were sometimes hot and cold.

Now, according to a series of tweets from hip-hop journalist Elliott Wilson of the pages from his new Men of the Year issue GQ in which Hitmakers of the Year Future and Metro Boomin dig into the origins of their beef with Drake, the heart of the matter was personal, not professional.

“Me too [Drake]we had a personal thing, and for the record, not about any girl or anything silly like that,” Metro said GQ editor Frazier Tharpe on the war of words that sparked the Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 featuring a Kendrick Lamar song he produced for the former Trust you volume, “Like That”; this track was a response to Drake/J's 2023. Cole's song “First Person Shooter”.

“It was a personal matter that really hurt and disappointed me,” Boomin' said, without elaborating on what he was referring to. “But if you take away all the rap entertainment, it's like, have you ever been really cool with somebody and got into a fight over something? It happens every day. It's just regular s–t. This happens to have an audience.”

As for chatter that Boomin' crafted his two-album set with Future with the express purpose of dissing Drake, the producer/songwriter said that was “definitely” nonsense. “People really think we sat for two years, making two albums [to be] like, Well, that's it, man. What kind of st is this?” Boomin, 31, said. “Do you really think we're going to spend this much time, effort, resources to just try to reach someone on an album? Explosive budgets on two albums — they continue ultra budget; This is serious hate. None of us rock like that.”

Although the albums kicked up a lot of dust and attention, Boomin told the magazine he regretted how he handled the issue online in a series of tweets attacking Drake in response to Drizzy firing back with his own Metro/Lamar diss pieces. , “Push Ups” and “Family Matters”.

“Now I've had my moment on the internet, which I regret. I should have been stronger than that. That was out of character for me,” Boomin said. “But at a certain point, it's like, bro, I don't rap, so you're just gonna put me on all these songs […] I'm not going to go into the booth, so I'll tweet you.'

While Boomin was willing to talk about his feelings about the feud, Future was more circumspect, saying, “Was there a beef?… I didn't even know there was a beef. I didn't even know anything was happening. I've never been in rap battles, man.”

Despite his seemingly joking response, Future wondered why no one asked him if he was upset about being left off the “Big Three” list in “First Person Shooter,” in which Cole claimed he, Drake and Lamar are the undisputed top class. of the modern hip.

“I'm supposed to be the one getting angry. I'm still confused about it,” Future said GQaccording to Wilson's posts. “No one cares what I think. That was what he was so excited about st. To the point that I'm such a player that I haven't said anything to the public about how I feel about it. For example, why are they all mad when he was talking about him my on my song; So you just forgot about me, I'm not part of that Big Three, I'm nobody in my song, man.”

At press time a spokesman for GQ he had not responded Bulletin boardhis request for confirmation of the quotations published by Wilson.

Last month, in a tweet from prison, Young Thug called for peace between Drake, Future and Metro. “@Drake @1future @MetroBoomin we're all bruddas. Music ain't the same without us working together,” wrote the MC who was released from prison after cutting a deal in the long-running YSL RICO case in Georgia.