Metro Boomin Explains Why Drake Was Left Off 'Heroes & Villains' Album

Metro Boomin has revealed why Drake’srecently-surfaced “Trance” verse was left off his Heroes & Villains album.

Metro appeared on DJ Drama’sStreetz Is Watchin Radio, where he explained the 6 God heard the Travis Scott and Young Thug-assisted song during a studio session and was eager to jump on it.

The Boominati beatmaker felt strongly that the track was finished to his liking, though, and despite being clear about his feelings with Drake, that didn’t deter the OVO boss from recording to the beat in hopes of making the cut.

Ultimately, Metro rejected the Drake feature and decided the song was good enough without him — a move few artists would dare or even be able to afford to make.

“Really, it was a song I had did with Travis and Thug, originally for my album,” Metro began. “I was in the studio with Drake one time because we were gonna do some stuff for my album. He just wanted to hear some songs from my album, and then he heard that one.

“He really wanted to get on it but I was letting him know that it was really just done for real. I was really just set on how it was. I was like, ‘Bro, I ain’t trying to sell you no dream. I’m locked in where it was.’ He had hit me and was just like, ‘Let me see if there’s anything you could add to it.’ He was like, ‘If you don’t like it, then whatever.'”

The super producer continued: “He did some stuff, a couple parts was cool but like I just felt like just even with like Slime verse and Trav verse and the outro, it wasn’t just no room. It wasn’t nothing personal… I just ended up using the original and I guess the other one just leaked or something.”

DJ Drama then chimed in and asked if Metro was the first person to ever tell Drake there was no room for him on a song.

“Do y’all think anyone’s told Drake, ‘I think the song’s done?’ in the history of music,” he wondered, to which Metro replied with a laugh: “There had to be somebody else. Come on, don’t make me the first.”

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While they didn’t connect for “Trance,” Metro and Drizzy have teamed up on many tracks before including “Jumpman,” “Knife Talk,” “No Complaints,” Future’s “Where Ya At,” Gucci Mane’s “Both” and more.

Metro Boomin most recently notched a production credit on Drake and 21 Savage’s joint album Her Loss as the Atlanta beat maestro teamed up with DAVID x ELI to craft the menacing beat for “More M’s.”

The 29-year-old’s Heroes & Villains LP arrived in December and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 185,000 album-equivalent units in its first week.

Additionally, all 15 of the project’s songs charted on the Billboard Hot 100, including two in the top 10: “Creepin” featuring The Weeknd (No. 5) and the Future and Chris Brown-assisted “Superhero (Heroes & Villains)” (No. 8).