Metro Boomin has opened up about his mindset in the studio, offering some insight into his chemistry with frequent collaborator Future.
In a recent 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.
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“I just try to wow myself and that’s a part of keeping that kid and that fan in me always alive, you know what I’m saying,” he explains at 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.”
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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 jointly posted a cryptic trailer, soundtracked by an excerpt from an interview given by the late Mobb Deep rapper just ahead of his 2008 incarceration on charges of criminal possession of a firearm.
“Got a lot of fuckin’ garbage ass rappers out here running around,” P is heard sayin in 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.”
As Prodigy speaks, a white Bentley truck is seen driving down a deserted highway before meeting up with an identical SUV. Pluto and Metro each hop out of one of the vehicles, dressed in matching suits, before the title We Don’t Trust You appears on screen with two dates underneath it – March 22 and April 12.
As the clip ends, Future is heard rapping a hook that echoes the title.
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According to a press release sent to HipHopDX, the two release dates don’t indicate a single and an album, but two albums, with We Don’t Trust You being slated to arrive first.
The projects also celebrate over ten years of collaborations between the two Atlanta-based creatives, an ongoing partnership which culminated in the 2x platinum single “Superhero (Heroes & Villains)” from Metro Boomin’s 2022 album Heroes & Villains.
