Metro Boomin & Future Confirm Collab Double Album ‘We Don’t Trust You’

Will we get Vultures 2 or Metro x Future’s album first? A bit of a shorter edition today, but we’ll be back on Friday with everything you need to know about Kanye and the Vultures 2 release. In other news today:

• Billboard Hot 100 📈 

• North West is dropping an album—inspired by this Kanye project 🔥 

• New Playboi Carti song & video dropped ❗️ 

• Metro Boomin & Future confirm We Don’t Trust You double-album

• Industry Insights 🔎 

Billboard 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.

Kanye and Ty Dolla $ign’s “Carnivals” is back at #1, making Kanye the first rapper to have #1 hits in three decades. It’s also a milestone first #1 song for Rich The Kid and Playboi Carti. 21 Savage’s “Redrum” moves up by 1 spot to #12 and Bryson Tiller’s “Whatever She Wants” moves up by 3 spots to #19.

North West Is Dropping an Album Inspired by This Kanye Classic

North West is not doing much for celebrity offsprings trying to beat the nepo baby allegations. At the Vultures listening party in Phoenix on March 10, she stole the show by announcing her debut album, Elementary School Dropout, a nod to her father’s first project, The College Dropout.

North’s siblings, Psalm and Chicago, joined her onstage for a hallmark moment, dancing to her Vultures song “Talking.”

Your bestie, Miss Miss Westie, recently became one of the youngest artists to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, one of many accolades 99.99% of children will never achieve. It’s right above gracing the cover of i-D magazine and making TikToks with Ice Spice.

A debut album was the natural progression in her budding career, making Adonis’ “My Man Freestyle” look like child’s play. After all, rapping and a rivalry with a Graham are literally in her blood.

According to Justin LaBoy, who chatted with TMZ this week, North is doing the creative direction, from the beats she chooses to the engineer she wants to work with, and Kanye is there for guidance.

North has also had friends in the studio (what’s a rapper without an entourage), and they may appear on the album.

Playboi Carti Drops New Song & Video “Ketamine”

Soon after Playboi Carti earned his first #1 song on the Hot 100 for “Carnival,” he announced the drop of his sixth single from his upcoming(?) album I Am Music. Back to our regularly scheduled Carti programming, the new song “Ketamine” arrived on Opium’s IG account last night. 

Although shorter than other Carti releases like “H00DBYAIR,” the single has the same desolate, goth-influenced trap vibes as its predecessors. It’s Playboi Carti—of course, there’s an unsettling music video to accompany it.

The rawness of the video’s editing, paired with the single-mattress dingy setting, communicates Carti’s dark aesthetic.

The punk guitarist in the video is one-half of Ojivolta, a production duo that’s a longtime Carti collaborator who contributed to the “Ketamine” beat along with CardoGotWings and Twisco. Find the standout lyrics below.

Metro Boomin & Future Confirm Collab Double Album ‘We Don’t Trust You’

After a year of teasing, Future and Metro Boomin have set a date for their highly anticipated collaboration. The dynamic duo captioned the album trailer, “Great things come to those who wait,” knowing that the March 22 and April 12 release dates would send fans, who used to pray 4 times like this, rejoicing—suggesting it’s a double album.

The title, We Don’t Trust You, is a clever play on the iconic “If young Metro don’t trust you, I’m gon’ shoot you” tag from the book of Future, chapter 9, verse 1.

The trailer shows Deacon Metro and Father Future suited up in twin holy white Rolls Royce Cullinans for a middle-of-the-desert link-up.

The narration, “Got a lot of garbage ass rappers out here, running around like—these n***as ain’t supposed to be rapping son. This game is meant for a select circle of few,” echos like a sermon, warning against impostors in the rap game.

The Tupac sound bite, “I don’t trust no-motherfucking-body,” from the 1996 Bullet movie is the past meets present part of Pluto x Metro service. Future recites the title, and a shot’s fired, driving home the parallel of the young Metro tag.

• 4batz signs EP deal with Drake’s OVO after label bidding war. The deal is reportedly a short-term license for one EP, which will be the R&B singer’s first project.

• Biggie, A$AP Rocky, Jay-Z & more will have jewelry featured in the Natural History Museum Exhibit. Starting May 9, the jewels will be displayed for Ice Cold: An Exhibition of Hip-Hop Jewelry in NYC.

• Drake’s attorneys want him removed from all Astroworld lawsuits. Filing a new motion that argues he was merely performing when the tragedy occurred but has no liability.

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