Metro Boomin has opened up about his mindset within the studio, providing some perception into his chemistry with frequent collaborator Future.
In a current interview with Don Cannon‘s producer-centric TmrO Network, the Heroes & Villains rapper and producer revealed that his approach to creating music starts with the goal of impressing himself, then hoping that it also speaks to other like minded individuals.
“I just try to wow myself and that’s part of retaining that child and that fan in me all the time alive, you realize what I’m saying,” he explains on the 12:08 mark. “Everybody I work with, I always been fans of. Like even before I met Future, I was always a fan in high school.
“So when I get with him it’s like that inner fan to me, that 10th grade fan, that junior year fan is like, ‘Okay, let me try to make a song with this n-gga that I would just be like, yeah, I wanna play this shit all the time.’ I feel like that’s the key.”
He continues: “And it go back to people having other motives on why they doing what they doing. Like maybe they just trying to get some money or try to just get this accolade, purely for what comes with it or whatever.
“And they just approaching it wrong bro. They feel like they gotta make something for everybody or try to appease these people; or ‘this is in now, so let me try to do this;’ or this is for that result. It’s just not pure.”
On March 8, Future and Metro Boomin collectively posted a cryptic trailer, soundtracked by an excerpt from an interview given by the late Mobb Deep rapper simply forward of his 2008 incarceration on expenses of prison possession of a firearm.
“Got a lot of fuckin’ garbage ass rappers out here running around,” P is heard sayin within the World Star Hip Hop clip. “Like, these n-ggas ain’t supposed to b rapping, son. This game was meant for a select number of fews, a select few. And that’s what it is today, man. I don’t give a fuck, ain’t nothing changed. Always remember that. You see we still here doing it. Ain’t nothin’ changed. Fuck all these n-ggas man.”
Coi Leray & Metro Boomin Share New Track ‘Enjoy Yourself’ In Unexpected Place
As Prodigy speaks, a white Bentley truck is seen driving down a abandoned freeway earlier than assembly up with an equivalent SUV. Pluto and Metro every hop out of one of many automobiles, wearing matching fits, earlier than the title We Don’t Trust You seems on display screen with two dates beneath it – March 22 and April 12.
As the clip ends, Future is heard rapping a hook that echoes the title.
According to a press launch despatched to HipHopDX, the 2 launch dates don’t point out a single and an album, however two albums, with We Don’t Trust You being slated to reach first.
The tasks additionally rejoice over ten years of collaborations between the 2 Atlanta-based creatives, an ongoing partnership which culminated within the 2x platinum single “Superhero (Heroes & Villains)” from Metro Boomin’s 2022 album Heroes & Villains.
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