Metro Boomin and Future Have Different POVs on Drake Beef

Taylor Swift is allegedly featured on Kendrick Lamar’s new album. In other news:  

• Song streams & revenue 💰️

• Future and Metro Boomin talk about Drake with GQ 👀

• Lil Baby has collabs in the works for his new project 🎤

• New Music Friday releases 💿️

• Industry Insights 📈

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Songs Streams & Revenue

It’s a new week and a new song revenue chart. As reported by Hits Daily Double, which tracks streaming revenue week over week, the above chart reflects the streaming period from November 8 to 14.

Tracks from Tyler, the Creator’s CHROMAKOPIA are still performing well. Other songs like “Not Like Us” and Big Glo and Sexyy Red’s collab “Whatchu Kno About Me” are joining “Timeless” in making a comeback on the chart this week.

Future and Metro Boomin Have Different POVs on Drake

When Pharrell was named “Designer of the Year” in this year’s GQ’s Men of the Year, he talked about how he was unbothered by Drake’s “MELTDOWN” antics. It seems that Metro Boomin and Future are taking the same approach in their Hitmakers of the Year profile with GQ, pretending as if the WE DON’T TRUST YOU era attacks against Drake were not that serious. 

Metro Boomin admits there was a personal issue

The Metro and Future quotes from the unreleased piece were shared online by Elliott Wilson on November 20.  

In the article quotes, Metro adamantly rejects the idea that his recent albums with Future were part of a detailed attack against Champagne Papi. 

“People really think we sat for two years, making two albums [to be] like, ‘Yo, fuck this dude.’ What kind of shit 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,” the producer told GQ. 

It turns out that Metro had a personal issue with Drake “that really hurt me and disappointed me. But if you take all of 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 shit. This just happens to have an audience."

With any friendship, there can be ups and downs — but airing out a full-on hate crusade on X is another level of anger. Nevertheless, Metro took accountability for his past actions. 

“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," he said. “But at a certain point, it’s like, I don’t rap, bro, so you’re going to just shit on me on all of these songs [...] I’m not going to get in the booth, so I’m finna tweet at you,” he said. 

Future “attempts” to be oblivious

Future took a different approach than Metro, leveraging the D of defense—deny, deny, deny.

“There was a beef?" he apparently answered with a smirk. "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 said.

Although he’s gotten criticism online for “backpedaling,” Future arguably gave the most on-brand response for his rap persona. What’s a toxic king without masterful gaslighting?

Future insists that if he wasn’t pressed by Kendrick’s feature, which arguably dissed him as well, he doesn’t know why it became the catalyst for a rap civil war. 

"I'm supposed to be the one who gets mad; I'm still confused about that," he said. "Nobody cares what I think. That's what was so fucked up about the shit. 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."

He further added, "If I didn't get mad, nobody should have gotten mad. 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."

Drake has not responded to the newest quotes from the two rap heavyweights. However, those online have had plenty of critiques for both Metro and Future. 

Lil Baby Reveals Features on New ‘WHAM’ Album

It’s been over two years since Lil Baby dropped his last album, It’s Only Me. Recently, he took a break from doing features and focused on his own music again, releasing two singles (“Insecurities” and “5AM”) and dropping his new album title like an Avatar with locs.

WHAM: Who Hard As Me doesn’t have an official release date yet, but the Atlanta rapper has dropped some teasers to hold fans over.

Lil Baby taps Young Thug, Travis Scott, and more

In a new post online on November 20, the rapper leaked his upcoming tracklist written out on a whiteboard. With seemingly fifteen tracks and then five more on a deluxe version, the rapper wrote the featured artists who will be hopping on the new beats with him. 

Included so far are Glorilla on “RedBone,” Young Thug and Future on “Intro” (Future will also be on “99”), and Rod Wave on “By Myself.”

Lil Baby earlier this week revealed that he got the "hardest verse ever” from 21 Savage. Although Savage’s name was missing from the photo above, an updated whiteboard saw his inclusion along with Travis Scott (featured on a song called “Stuff”). Pair that with Lil Baby’s recent graduation from Harvard Business School, and it seems the rapper has plenty to celebrate.

New Music Friday

Here’s all the music you can listen to now—categorized by 💿️ for albums and 🎶 for singles:

• 💿️ Art of War by Finesse2tymes

• 💿️ Man Down by Ice Cube

• 💿️ Proud of Myself by Sheff G

• 💿️ I’ll Always Come Find You (Deluxe) by Blxst

• 💿️ Angel Eyes by Kenny Mason

• 💿️ Crack Music 3 by Skilla Baby

• 🎶 “Play This” by Playboi Carti

• 🎶 “Hello Miss Johnson” by Jack Harlow

• 🎶 “Moving Day” by André 3000

• 🎶 “Outta Da Blue” by Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Alus

• 🎶 “s2wik/wingz” by Aminé

• 🎶 “Need Dat Boy” by Lil Nas X

• 🎶 “The Biggest Pt. 2” by BossMan Dlow

• 🎶 “Let It Go Baby” by Lil Tjay

• 🎶 “Go” by EST Gee

• Jay-Z and Team Roc have filed a lawsuit against Kansas City. They are claiming that Kansas City failed to timely produce law enforcement records related to misconduct and police abuse allegations. 

• Diddy continues to stay in hot water. Two new sexual assault lawsuits have been filed against him on November 19 with help from Tony Buzbee. 

• Travis Scott will “design the desert” at 2025 Coachella. La Flame is featured as a special guest at the iconic festival.

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