Metro Boomin on Drake & Future Creating “What A Time To Be Alive”.
Metro Boomin made a name for himself in the recent years by working with a vast array of notable Atlanta acts including the likes of Future, Gucci Mane, Young Thug, Migos, Travi$ Scott, iLoveMakonnen, and many more. He played a truly important role in shaping Drake and Future’s collaborative mixtape What A Time To Be Alive as he coined 7 out of the 11 instrumentals featured in the project.
Appearing on Rap Radar’s podcast, Young Metro spoke on WATTBA and recalled how the record came together. He claimed Drake had been asking him to do a mixtape together for a long time, but the beatmaker wasn’t sure whether the Canadian was serious. “We shot the ‘Where Ya At’ video a few months ago. That same year, it was two times before that that I seen Drake. Like, we’d be in the studio and he’d be like, ‘Yo, we gotta do that tape.’ But he’d be laughing. I don’t know he’d be serious. Like, he would just be talking about me and him. I don’t know what he was talking about.”
Metro then explained how Drizzy initiated WATTBA. “Then we got to the ‘Where Ya At’ video, and the conversation came up again. He was telling Future and Esco, ‘Yeah, I’ve been telling Metro let’s do the tape.’ I was like, ‘Oh s***. Alright, this ni*** is pretty serious.’ He was like, ‘F*** it, we gonna come to Atlanta.’ And two weeks later, we had the studio [Tree Sound] rented out for like six days.”
Further, the producer shared his thoughts on the general opinion it was Drizzy who jumped on Fewtch’s wave. “People will always say whatever about anything. Nothing can be perfect and really appease to everybody,” he said. “Mostly everybody? Like, I’m cool with the majority. I feel like it is just their own world. I feel like this one project, this is their own world, their own planet. It’s not really Drake jumping into Future’s world, Future jumping into Drake’s world.”
Listen to the complete interview below.
