Metro Boomin and Future Address Drake Beef

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Metro Boomin has revealed that a “personal issue” was the reason behind the beef between him and Drake, which resulted in several diss tracks and even the involvement of Kendrick Lamar.

TIDAL’s Elliott Wilson took to social media to share snippets of Metro and Future’s GQ cover story, where the pair addressed the feud from their own perspectives. “Me and [Drake], we had a personal issue, and for the record, not over no girl or nothing silly like that,” he told GQ’s Frazier Tharpe, but did not go into detail of the supposed issue. “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? It happens every day. It’s just regular s–t. This just happens to have an audience.”

The producer further clarified that he and Future didn’t collaborate on their WE DON’T TRUST YOU album series with the intention of starting a war with Drizzy, “People really think we sat for two years, making two albums [to be] like, Yo, f*ck this dude. What kind of s*it is that?” Young Metro continued, “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.”

However, despite the personal problems between them, Boomin expressed regret over some hurtful words about Drake that he publicly shared on X, “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. But at a certain point, it’s like, I don’t rap, bro, so you’re going to just s*it on me on all of these songs […] I’m not going to get in the booth, so I’m finna tweet at you.”

While Metro was more open about his side of the beef, Future played it cool. “There was a beef?” he said, “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 was more verbal about being left out of the “big three” line on “First Person Shooter,” where J. Cole claimed that it was only he, Drizzy and Kendrick Lamar who occupied those spots. “I’m supposed to be the one who gets mad; I’m still confused about that,” Future replied. “Nobody cares what I think. That’s what was so f*cked up about the sh*t. 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.”