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Metro Boomin has announced details of his new album, ‘Heroes & Villains’, his first full-length solo record in four years.The St. Louis rapper – real name Leland Tyler Wayne – last released a solo album in 2018 with ‘Not All Heroes Wear Capes’. Since then, he has worked with 21 Savage on the collaborative record ‘Savage Mode II’, which arrived in 2020.Now, Metro Boomin has confirmed his second solo release will land in November.

21 Savage has surprised fans at a recent Toronto concert by bringing out Drake despite the rapper’s feud with his friend, Metro Boomin.The London-born rapper is currently on his ‘American Dream’ tour, which supports his latest album of the same name. Earlier this week, he performed at the Budweiser Stage in Drake’s hometown, where he invited the 6God to join him on stage.

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer Just when the heated battle that dominated hip-hop the past few months seemed to be over, Drake has kicked a little dust back up with his appearance on Sexyy Red’s “U My Everything,” a cut included on her new release “In Sexyy We Trust.” Drake, who was locked in a contentious back-and-forth with Kendrick Lamar, also had public issues with Metro Boomin, who featured Lamar on the Drake diss track “Like That” back in March.

21 Savage has commented on the feud between Drake and Metro Boomin, saying that the two will “figure their shit out eventually”The Atlanta-based rapper has famously worked with both Metro Boomin and Drake. At the beginning of his career, he and Boomin created the collaborative musical series ‘Savage Mode’.The first instalment came in 2016, where songs like ‘X’ and ‘No Heart’ catapulted the two to mainstream rap stardom, and the long-awaited sequel ‘Savage Mode II’ arrived in 2020.Then, in 2022, Savage and Drake released their joint album ‘Her Loss’, which was nominated for many awards including multiple Grammys.During an Instagram Live last Sunday (May 12), 21 Savage remained neutral in the feud, saying: “Don’t keep coming on to my muthafuckin’ live talking about no muthafuckin’ beef.

Soulja Boy has issued an apology to Metro Boomin after a recent tirade where he disrespected his late mother.The ‘Crank That’ rapper lashed out at the producer over the weekend, seemingly after a 12-year-old tweet from Metro resurfaced online, where he made a jibe at the former.In the now-deleted tweet stemming back to 2012, the producer wrote (via VIBE): “My phone rings to come to the studio with Jeezy. Yours rings to send Soulja Boy a pack of beats.

Kanye West has gotten involved in the ongoing rap beef between Drake, J. Cole, Future and Kendrick Lamar.The controversial rapper – who now goes by Ye – continued his longtime drama with Drake over the weekend (April 20), when he made an appearance on Justin Laboy’s radio show The Download, and premiered his remix of ‘Like That’.Originally, the song was shared by Future and Metro Boomin with help from Kendrick Lamar, and was seen as a response to Drake and J.

Future and Metro Boomin have announced their joint tour, ‘We Trust You’ – check out the full list of North American dates below.Last night (April 16), the duo took to social media to announce the tour, which is named after their pair of collaborative albums – March’s ‘We Don’t Trust You’ and April’s ‘We Still Don’t Trust You’. The tour will see the two musicians perform 27 dates across North America, including stops in Detroit, Atlanta, Las Vegas, Boston, Toronto and many more.They are due to kick off their trek on July 30 at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City before wrapping up north of the border on September 9 in Vancouver, B.C., at Rogers Arena.Tickets will be available to Cash App Card customers starting today (April 17), while the general public can cop their tickets on Friday (April 19) via the Live Nation website at 10am local time.JULY30 – Kansas City, MO – T-Mobile Center31 – Saint Paul, MN – Xcel Energy CenterAUGUST02 – Milwaukee, WI – Fiserv Forum03 – Chicago, IL – Lollapalooza (Grant Park)04 – Detroit, MI – Little Caesars Arena06 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena08 – Atlanta, GA – State Farm Arena10 – Columbus, OH – Schottenstein Center11 – Toronto, Ontario – Scotiabank Arena13 – Boston, MA – TD Garden14 – Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center15 – Brooklyn, NY – Barclays Center17 – Washington, D.C. – Capital One Arena20 – New Orleans, LA – Smoothie King Center22 – Houston, TX – Toyota Center23 – San Antonio, TX – Frost Bank Center24 – Dallas, TX – American Airlines Center25 – Tulsa, OK – BOK Center27 – Denver, CO – Ball Arena28 – Salt Lake City, UT – Delta Center30 – Las Vegas, NV – T-Mobile Arena31 – Inglewood, CA – Intuit DomeSEPTEMBER03 – Sacramento, CA – Golden 1 Center04 – Oakland, CA – Oakland Arena0

Kendrick Lamar has dissed Drake and J. Cole while appearing on Future and Metro Boomin‘s new track ‘Like That’.The track is featured on Metro Boomin’s latest joint album ‘We Don’t Trust You’.

Metro Boomin and Future have announced that they will be releasing two collaborative albums in the next month.The two rappers confirmed the news in a trailer released to social media on March 8, which features the voice of the late Mobb Deep rapper Prodigy.The clip sees the pair pull up in a pair of luxury cars in a remote setting, which then cuts to the title ‘We Don’t Trust You’, and the dates “3 22 24” and “4 12 24”.Great things come to those who wait #LLProdigy #WDTY @1future

Fall Out Boy and Metro Boomin have been added to the list of performers for next week’s 2023 MTV Video Music Awards.The ceremony will take place at the Prudential Centre in Newark, New Jersey on September 12, and will also feature the recently-announced Olivia Rodrigo.Others to perform at the 2023 VMAs will be Måneskin, Doja Cat and more, alongside the newly announced Peso Pluma. It will be Fall Out Boy’s first performance on the show since 2007.Taylor Swift, Doja Cat and SZA lead the list of nominations, which was revealed last month.Swift is leading the way with eight nominations, SZA earned six and Doja Cat, Kim Petras, Miley Cyrus, Nicki Minaj and Sam Smith have all earned five each.

The Weeknd has shared some new studio photos with Metro Boomin and Mike Dean, fuelling rumours that a new album release could be imminent.The singer – who recently announced his plan to retire his moniker and record under birth name Abel Tesfaye – has long teased a trilogy of albums, having so far released ‘After Hours’ and ‘Dawn FM’.Back in June, he then confirmed in an interview with Variety that he was “finishing the third part of this saga, of this trilogy”.New pictures posted to Instagram this weekend have now teased that the final LP could be coming soon. “i hear the fire in the sky.

One of the big movies due for release this summer is Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse. The animated movie is the sequel to 2018's Into the Spider-Verse, one of the best animated movies of the past few years.

Sony Pictures Animation has announced that Metro Boomin will act as Executive Producer on the soundtrack album of new movie ‘Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse’. It’ll be one of those ‘music from and inspired by’ deals, with the producer overseeing the whole shebang.Actually, while I may have made it sound like this is something he’s going to do, presumably the work is already done, because that soundtrack album is out on 2 Jun. Which is quite soon.

Coachella 2023 Weekend 2 kicks off today (April 21), with Bad Bunny headlining and many more FADER favorites filling out the undercard: Gorillaz, Burna Boy, Kaytranada, Pusha T, Metro Boomin, Karol G, and others. Where last Friday’s schedule featured a short-notice set from a newly reunited Blink-182, Weekend 2 will see them taking the headlining role on Sunday, replacing Frank Ocean after he bowed out of Coachella 2023’s closing set following leg injuries he sustained on festival grounds before Weekend 1 (per his publicist).

Metro Boomin was joined by a star-studded support cast at his Coachella set on Friday night (April 14) – watch him perform with The Weeknd, Diddy, Future, John Legend and more below.During the set, the producer and rapper also welcomed the likes of 21 Savage, Mike Dean and Don Toliver to the stage.Opening with ‘On Time’ (featuring John Legend), he then went straight into introducing ‘Future’ for ‘Superhero (Heroes & Villains)‘ and three Future covers with the rapper.Elsewhere in the 23-song set, he covered three Weeknd songs alongside Abel Tesfaye, closing with an all-star performance of ‘Creepin’‘ featuring The Weeknd, 21 Savage and Diddy.See footage from the performance, which also featured a preview of a new track from The Weeknd, below.XOCHELLA

This weekend the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival will take place at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. This year's lineup is a stacked one.

Metro Boomin‘s mother, Leslie Joanne Wayne, was killed in a murder-suicide, Billboard reports (via TMZ). It is alleged that Wayne was killed by her husband on Friday night, June 3, in the Atlanta area. The husband, who is not the biological father of Metro Boomin, is then believed to have taken his own life.

Metro Boomin’s mother has reportedly been killed by her husband in murder-suicide.TMZ reports that Leslie Joanne Wayne is suspected to have been murdered by her spouse – who isn’t Boomin’s father – on Friday (June 3). Her husband is believed to have killed himself afterwards.Boomin’s representatives confirmed that his mother died at the weekend, adding that the hip-hop producer and his family request privacy during this difficult time.The DJ is known for producing hits including Future’s ‘Mask Off’, Migos’ ‘Bad And Boujee’ and Kanye West’s ‘Father Stretch My Hands Part 1’.

21 Savage and Metro Boomin's chart-topping Savage Mode II got the chopped and screwed treatment by legendary Houston collective OG Ron C & The Chopstars on Monday. After debuting at the top of the Billboard 200 chart back in September, each song on the original album also landed on the Hot 100 chart.

21 Savage and producer Metro Boomin have the No.1 album in the country with Savage Mode II. The duo's second collaborative project debuted in the top spot of this week's Billboard 200, replacing last week's leader Machine Gun Kelly and his pop-punk album Tickets To My Downfall.

For the better part of four years, 21 Savage and Metro Boomin have been teasing Savage Mode 2, the sequel to their beloved 2016 mixtape Savage Mode. In The FADER’s 2016 cover story on Savage, the rapper revealed that the pair had recorded 20 to 30 new songs for the project.