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Future and Metro Boomin are finally opening up about their involvement in Drake and Kendrick Lamar's feud.
The WE DON'T TRUST YOU duo were crowned 'Hitmakers of the Year' by GQ as part of the magazine's 2024 'Men of the Year' issue. In excerpts from their cover story that Elliott Wilson shared on Wednesday, November 20, Future and Metro shared their thoughts about the glorified beef that blew up after after they dropped "Like That" earlier this year. Pluto lightheartedly brushed off the feud at first, however, he eventually vented about how he felt when he heard Lamar's scathing verse.
“There was a beef? I didn’t even know there was a beef," Future told interviewer Frazier Tharpe with a “impish smirk." "I didn’t know they had nothing going on. I ain’t never participated in rap battles, man.”
“I’m supposed to be the one who gets mad; I’m still confused about that,” he said later. “Nobody cares what I think. That’s what was so f**ked up about the s**t. To the point where I’m so player that I ain’t even said anything about how I feel about it."
Future said he's the one who should've been mad about Lamar's verse on "Like That" especially after K.Dot said, “Muthaf**k the Big Three, n***a, it’s just Big Me." Pluto said he felt a type of way when he realized he was left out of the Big Three conversation.
“Like, why is everybody mad when he was talking about me on my song?" he explained. "So y’all just forgot about me, I ain’t part of this Big Three, I’m nobody on my song, man."
“If I didn’t get mad, nobody should have gotten mad!" he added. "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.'”
Despite his gripes about K.Dot's problematic bars, Future maintained he's "got nothing to be mad about" and said he's still cool with everybody. However, that's not exactly the case for Metro Boomin. The superproducer clarified that they didn't make the album with the intention to drag Drizzy through the dirt with Lamar's bars. However, he did share more context behind his retaliation against Drake on social media. Metro said he had "a personal issue that really hurt me and disappointed me," but didn't disclose what the personal issue was. Despite their fall-out, Metro did admit he regretted the antics he pulled online and said it was "out of character" for him.
“People really think we sat for two years, making two albums [to be] like, 'Yo, f**k this dude,' Metro said. 'What kind of s**t is that? 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.”
“Now I did have my moment online, which I do regret,” he continued. “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**t on me on all of these songs… I’m not going to get in the booth, so I’m finna tweet at you.'”
See more excerpts from Future and Metro Boomin's upcoming cover story below.