Drake appears to have responded to Metro Boomin after the producer threw some shade at the rap superstar.
In a since-deleted post on X, formerly Twitter, on Saturday (December 2), Metro weighed in on a debate about the streaming figures of his Heroes & Villains album versus those of Drake and 21 Savage‘s Her Loss.
After an account reported that Heroes & Villains has amassed more streams in a single year (3.7 billion) than any other rap album since 2018 and is currently generating more than twice the amount of daily streams as Her Loss, Metro wrote: “Yet Her Loss keeps winning rap album of the year over H&V.
“Proof that award shows are just politics and not for me. Idc about awards honestly, the true award and REWARD is knowing that the music I spend so much time on brings joy to people’s everyday lives.”
Drake appeared to fire back at Metro on his Instagram Stories by quoting the JAY-Z song “Heart of the City (Ain’t No Love)”: “Damn. little mans, I’m just tryin’ to do me/ If the record’s two mil, I’m just tryin’ to move three.”
Check out the exchange below.
Metro stay subbin Drake but when they ask why he got a problem he act like people makin the shit up. 🌽 🌽 pic.twitter.com/ybCYJFk68G
— . (@frostedtakes_) December 3, 2023
Though appearing to take a shot at Drake over the album, Metro Boomin is a credited producer on one song on Her Loss (“More M’s”) and has produced various records for him in the past including “Jumpman” and “Knife Talk.”
The St. Louis native previously revealed that he made the decision to leave a Drizzy feature off his Heroes & Villains album.
The 6 God had recorded a verse for “Trance,” which also featured Travis Scott and Young Thug, but Metro felt the song was strong enough without the Toronto hitmaker.
“Really, it was a song I had did with Travis and Thug, originally for my album,” Metro said in an interview with DJ Drama. “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.
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“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.”
A version of the song featuring Drake’s verse later leaked online.
