Metro Boomin Shows You How Mixtapes Should Be Released

As technology and social media continues to improve and become more accessible, production quantity will increase. This will likely cause an oversaturation in the market, and Metro Boomin has taken notice of these trends. Taking to Twitter, the successful Atlanta producer shares that not everyone can release music like Future (quantity and quantity) and that most artists should focus on putting out one mixtape with good quality rather than dropping multiple tapes of all their songs. He compares the mixtape game to a marathon rather than a sprint, and advises that the artist should take all the “hardest” songs from his “five tapes” and make one high-quality tape instead. Read his tweets below.

Everyday I wake up, new mixtapes are falling out of the sky.. I think we all know where the trend came from lol ?☕️ pic.twitter.com/dytHN7fubs

— Metro Boomin (@MetroBoomin) November 9, 2015

And for all you internet niggas who like to tweet like you know everything, I'm not saying he's the first to do it.

— Metro Boomin (@MetroBoomin) November 9, 2015

But artists have not put this much music out in years, now artists are dropping tapes every month. Everyone was holding their music b4

— Metro Boomin (@MetroBoomin) November 9, 2015

These niggas crazy tryna tweet me like I don't know who Lil Wayne is and like those weren't my main years growing up ??

— Metro Boomin (@MetroBoomin) November 9, 2015

Niggas tweet more than they read these days lol

— Metro Boomin (@MetroBoomin) November 9, 2015

Don't tweet me about anything before 2014 because that's not what I'm talking about. Talk to me about the CURRENT state of rap music.

— Metro Boomin (@MetroBoomin) November 9, 2015

Niggas know Guwop and Weezy legends. What's understood doesn't have to be explained.

— Metro Boomin (@MetroBoomin) November 9, 2015

All I'm saying is, I wish that everyone would put out more quality music over the quantity. It's a marathon, not a sprint.

— Metro Boomin (@MetroBoomin) November 9, 2015

Moral of the story is, putting out 5 tapes in a year won't make you heat up like Future. That was just his path. It's not for everyone

— Metro Boomin (@MetroBoomin) November 9, 2015

Just take all the hardest songs from the 5 tapes you plan on dropping, and make 1 tape full of fire. #qualityovereverything

— Metro Boomin (@MetroBoomin) November 9, 2015