Metro Boomin has shed light on the conflict between himself and Drake in a new interview with GQ Magazine. Metro and Future appear on the cover of the magazine’s ‘Men of the Year’ issue, and the quotes from the unreleased piece were shared by Elliott Wilson on social media Wednesday. “Me and [Drake], we had a personal issue, and for the record, not over no girl or nothing silly like that,” Metro told GQ senior editor Frazier Tharpe, courtesy of Wilson. “It was a personal issue that really hurt me and disappointed me.”
“But if you take all the rap entertainment out of it, it’s like, have you ever been real cool with somebody, and y’all fell out over something?,” he continued. “It happens every day. It’s just regular shit. This just happens to have an audience.” Metro also emphatically rejected the theory that he concocted this plan to collaborate with Future, and others, for the sole purpose of attacking Drizzy on his two collab albums, We Don’t Trust You and We Still Don’t Trust You. “People really think we sat for two years, making two albums [to be] like, Yo, fuck this dude. What kind of shit is that?,” the 31-year-old producer stated. “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.”
Metro also admitted he regrets posting malicious tweets about Drake, calling it a “moment online” and acknowledging that he should have shown better restraint on social media. “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 sh*t on me on all of these songs […] I’m not going to get in the booth, so I’m finna tweet at you.”
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— Elliott Wilson (@ElliottWilson) November 21, 2024
Meanwhile, Future appeared to act completely oblivious to the existence of a feud. “There was a beef?,” he asked with a smirk, according to GQ. “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.” Fewtch also questioned why no one wondered if he felt a certain way about being excluded from the Big Three discussion, especially with Kendrick Lamar declaring himself the best while calling out both Drake and J. Cole on Future and Metro’s song “Like That.”
“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.” Future 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.”
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— Elliott Wilson (@ElliottWilson) November 21, 2024