When Pharrell was named “Designer of the Year” in this year’s GQ’s Men of the Year, he talked about how he was unbothered by Drake’s “MELTDOWN” antics. It seems that Metro Boomin and Future are also taking the same approach in their Hitmakers of the Year profile with GQ, pretending as if the WE DON’T TRUST YOU era attacks against Drake were not that serious.
Metro Boomin had a personal issue
The Metro and Future quotes from the unreleased piece were shared online by Elliott Wilson on November 20.
In the article quotes, Metro adamantly rejects the idea that his recent albums with Future were part of a detailed attack against Champagne Papi.
“People really think we sat for two years, making two albums [to be] like, ‘Yo, fuck this dude.’ What kind of shit is that? … You really think we are going to spend that much time, effort, resources on just trying to get at somebody on an album? Blowing budgets on two albums—going over budget? That’s some serious hate. Neither one of us rock like that,” the producer told GQ.
It turns out that Metro had a personal issue with Drake “that really hurt me and disappointed me. But if you take all of the rap entertainment out of it, it’s like, have you ever been real cool with somebody, and y’all fell out over something? It happens every day. It’s just regular shit. This just happens to have an audience.”
With any friendship, there can be ups and downs — but airing out a full-on hate crusade on X is another level of anger. Nevertheless, Metro has taken accountability for his past actions.
“Now I did have my moment online, which I do regret. I should have been stronger than that. That was out of character for me,” he said. “But at a certain point, it’s like, I don’t rap, bro, so you’re going to just shit on me on all of these songs […] I’m not going to get in the booth, so I’m finna tweet at you,” he said.
When it comes to his collaboration partner Future, though, he was acting as “Clueless” as the movie.
Future “attempts” to be oblivious
Even though Future never explicitly dissed the Toronto rapper, listeners assumed he approved the lyrical shots featured artists fired on his albums because of an underlying beef. Pluto, however, claims he never knew about any issues.
“There was a beef?” he apparently answered with a smirk. “I didn’t even know there was a beef. I didn’t even know they had nothing going on. I ain’t never participated in rap battles, man,” he said.
Wilson earlier this month reported that Drake and Future were back in each other’s good graces before OVO Mark and Drizzy’s henchman DJ Akademiks said, “Ain’t no way.”
However, Future insists that if he wasn’t pressed by Kendrick’s feature, which arguably dissed him as well, he doesn’t know why it became the catalyst for a rap civil war.
“I’m supposed to be the one who gets mad; I’m still confused about that,” he said. “Nobody cares what I think. That’s what was so fucked up about the shit. To the point where I’m so player that I ain’t even said anything to the public about how I feel about it. Like, why is everybody mad when he was talking about me on my song? So y’all just forgot about me, I ain’t part of this Big Three, I’m nobody on my song, man.”
He further added, “If I didn’t get mad, nobody should have gotten mad. If I would have been really mad about it and I made something out of it, then someone else could be like, Oh, I can make something else about it.”
Drake has not responded to the newest quotes from the two rap heavyweights. However, those online have had plenty of critiques for both Metro and Future.
