Drake & Metro Boomin's Alleged Feud Just Got Worse

Playboi Carti is 3/3 with new releases—we getting that new album before GTA 6. In other news today:

• Billboard’s Hot 100 📈 

• New Playboi Carti song 👿 

• Metro Boomin & Drake’s feud just got worse 😳 

• 5 things you didn’t know about 21 Savage 🗡️ 

• Discover new music with The Rap Index 🎵 

• Industry Insights 🔎 

Playboi Carti beating the liar allegations before the end of 2023 like:

Billboard’s Hot 100

The above chart shows Billboard’s Hot 100 ranking for this week. The Hot 100 ranks songs based on streaming activity, radio airplay audience impressions, and sales data—all measured by Luminate.

It’s a Young Money affair as Nicki Minaj and Drake have the most songs in the Top 50 of the Hot 100. Jack Harlow’s “Lovin On Me” only drops by one spot to #6 as the only rap song in the Top 10.

Nicki Minaj’s Pink Friday 2 breaks records

Debuting at #1 on the Billboard 200 with 228K in first-week sales, Pink Friday 2 marks Nicki Minaj’s third #1 album—the most for any female rapper. She also became the first female rapper to go #1 on the Billboard 200 in two different decades.

Playboi Carti Drops New Song “H00DBYAIR”

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It’s been three long years since Whole Lotta Red and Playboi Carti fans have been defeated, devastated, and distressed ever since. After going lie-for-lie all year about dropping an album, Carti’s stepped into his black leather Santa boots to deliver gifts in the form of new music. “Ur the moon,” was first, followed by “2024", and now the latest “H00DBYAIR.”

Metro Boomin & Drake’s Feud Just Got Worse

All 21 Savage wants for Christmas is a truce between Drake and Metro Boomin. During a live stream with Stake over the weekend, Drake took a moment to thank his fans for their support in 2023 before taking shots at the “tweeters and deleters” who make him “sick to my stomach, fam.”

Before diving into the details of this feud, Drake’s dropping the music video for “You Broke My Heart” tomorrow. Take a moment to envision the “Rich Flex” memes. Now swap 21 for Metro and add the lyrics, “You broke my heart, I had my doubts about you from the start.” It feels like the natural progression of zesty Drake memes.

The alleged beef between Drake and Metro has been more passive than Pusha T or Kanye, but it started with a now-deleted tweet by Metro that threw shade at Her Loss. Drake ended his unserious threat by saying, “Look in my eyes—you guys wanna do something? That’s what I thought.”

Metro seemingly responded by posting (and not deleting) the viral “Woah calm down Jamal, don’t pull out the 9” clip on X (formerly Twitter) with no other context.

Multiple subtweets, one unfollow (Drake doesn’t follow Metro), and one “tweeters and deleters” comment later, it doesn’t take the detective skills or jumping ability of your ex to conclude that there won’t be a “Knife Talk” pt. 2 anytime soon—prayers up for 21 Savage.

5 Things You Didn’t Know About 21 Savage

“If I’m serious, but you think it’s funny, am I funny?” 21 Savage asks in a new cover story with Rolling Stone. His deadpan delivery, audacious statements, and slaughter gang stoicism are the allure in his raps and what makes his seriousness easily mistaken for humor.

Was he trying to be funny when he said, “I feel like describing male friendships is zesty as hell”? Probably not, but the contrast between what he says and how he says it is hilarious. Aside from his ability to murder a Metro Boomin beat and lower the zest on a Drake song, what do you really know about 21 Savage?

Here are 5 truths about his relationship with Metro Boomin, the meaning behind his name, why he thinks his birthday is cursed, and his “fiction as hell” lyrics.

#1) How his friendship with Metro Boomin began

 “Before we got close, I’d just be like, ‘Hey, that’s just the n***a that smoke cigarettes and look mean all the time and don’t talk,” says Metro on his first impressions of 21 Savage in 2013.

A year later, 21 decided to take music seriously and asked Metro for some beats; the rest is history. “I always loved making dark and ominous beats. So it was like a match made in heaven, with how cold and eerie the beats I was giving him, on top of how he would rap, the shit he was saying, how crazy it would be,” says Metro.

#2) He worked on his new album, Heroes & Villains, and Her Loss simultaneously

At Metro’s studio in LA, he and 21 worked on three albums together. “We would work on the verses for [Heroes & Villains], and at the same time, I feed him beats when we work on the stuff for his album, and he was working on Her Loss in the front room at that time, too,” says Metro.

#3) His music is “fiction as hell”

“I just think of it in my head. Some of it be based off of real life, but a lot of it be creative stories,” 21 Savage tells Rolling Stone. Coming from the artist who said, “No capper, street n***a, not a rapper,” on “Knife Talk,” his seriousness once again comes off as unserious.

He’s the latest in a wave of rappers to admit his lyrics are for entertainment. The admission, which used to be a career death sentence, has become the new defense to make rap lyrics useless as evidence in court.

#4) His name stands for…

“21” pays homage to the 2100 street gang in Atlanta that he was affiliated with when he was younger, and “Savage” represents his inclination to rob and shoot around that same time.

But for legal purposes, it may also mean 21 Sincere Acts Vibrantly Affirm God’s Embrace.

#5) He thinks his birthday is cursed

21 Savage lost his close friend and chosen brother, Johnny B, on Oct 22, 2013—the day of his 21st birthday. They were together when they were shot at. 21 took six bullets and survived but had to watch Johnny die before the ambulance got there. On another birthday. he got into a car accident with his mom, leading him to believe the day was cursed. 

The Rap Index ft. Bas, J. Cole, Playboi Carti, Rich The Kid & More

The Rap Index is a way to follow and discover new music. Divided into 4 categories describing rap subgenres, songs are placed according to their style and sound—giving you a better idea of what songs will appeal to your musical taste. Only releases from the previous New Music Friday are included to help keep you up to date.

RapTV’s Ranking of NMF Songs Featured in the Rap Index

1. “Home Alone” by Bas, J. Cole (Listen on Apple Music & Spotify)

2. “Big Dawg” by Rich The Kid, Jay Critch, Famous Dex (Listen on Apple Music & Spotify)

3. “Crazy” by Lil Baby (Listen on Apple Music & Spotify)

4. “Get Deady” by Fivio Foreign, 41, Kyle Richh, Jenn Carter, TaTa (Listen on Apple Music & Spotify)

5. “Self Love” by Mylo Waiters (Listen on Apple Music & Spotify)

6. “2024” by Playboi Carti (Watch on YouTube)

7. “Night We Met” by Portion, Veronica Elizabeth (Listen on Apple Music & Spotify)

8. “The Grinch Freestyle” by Luh Tyler, Latto (Listen on Apple Music & Spotify)

• Kid Cudi shares details of his upcoming memoir CUDI. Noting that it will include a global book tour, he says it will “inspire you to live your life to the fullest every chance you get.”

• Ice Spice’s debut album is coming in 2024 ft. “New classics,” says RIOT USA. The producer revealed that he’s currently working on her debut album in a live Q&A.

• Lil Baby and Saweetie are joining the cast of Black Mafia Family for the series’ third season. Lil Baby will play a foot soldier while Saweetie plays a former college athlete.

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