(“Metro Boomin want some more, n-a!”) So far, he has produced 115 Billboard Hot 100 songs, including 10 top 10 hits, among them Post Malone’s Quavo-featuring “Congratulations” and Future’s “Mask Off,” and two No. 1s, Migos’ “Bad and Boujee” (featuring Lil Uzi Vert) and The Weeknd’s “Heartless.”īut Metro’s latest solo album, Heroes & Villains - which he released Dec. 2, 2022, on Republic Records and his own label, Boominati Worldwide - continued his ascent into rarefied air: the producer-turned-successful artist. He has managed to take over pop music, too, and without compromising his signature sound, which is characterized by eerie synth loops, 808s, soulful samples and orchestral finishes and branded by his notorious producer tags. Over the last decade, Metro, 30, has transformed from a behind-the-scenes trap beat-maker to one of rap’s most in-demand producers. He has gotten more comfortable in the spotlight lately. One of the studio’s ceiling lights floods him in the same blue as the bandanna wrapped around his tri-colored dreads. He isn’t cloaked in his luxe costume instead, he’s wearing a black Barriers hoodie with the image of Michael Jackson’s moonwalking silhouette highlighted by a baby blue spotlight. Metro Boomin: Photos From the Billboard Cover Shootįuture’s description of our hero’s usual alter-ego is true today as Metro sits at his own Boominati Studios in North Hollywood. “ ‘I ain’t know you could do that! You be in a room and just be so quiet.’ ” “When we was done, Future kept telling me, ‘Bro, I ain’t know who the f–k was talking!’ ” Metro recalls. But regardless of the Academy Award-winning actor’s resounding introduction, it was the usually soft-spoken producer’s booming voice that caught festivalgoers - and one of his many guest performers - by surprise when he greeted the crowd. Wearing a custom black Chrome Hearts suit, a masked Metro Boomin emerged from beneath the stage, his purple cross-embroidered cape fluttering in the desert wind. And comic book animations projected on either side of the stage illustrated there was only one man for the job. The perilous tone of his monologue, paired with producer Mike Dean’s sinister synths, stressed the festival’s need for a hero. The familiarity of Morgan Freeman’s commanding voice couldn’t calm down the fans - 80,000 of them, reportedly - standing around Coachella’s Sahara Tent. “We all must make a choice - to be a hero or a villain.”
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