Drake appears to have unfollowed Metro Boomin on Instagram after the producer threw some shade at the rapper over the success of Her Loss.
Metro had previously expressed annoyance that Her Loss, Drake’s collaborative album with 21 Savage, keeps winning awards over his own album Heroes & Villains.
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Now, Drake has severed Metro from his social media, with the Boominati boss no longer appearing in the list of accounts he follows on Instagram.
Metro, however, is still following Drake on the platform as of this writing.
Drake has unfollowed Metro Boomin on Instagram after his deleted tweet about how Drake’s “Her Loss” keeps winning Rap Album of The Year over his album “Heroes & Villains” 👀 pic.twitter.com/JejqFQ7xxp
— DailyRapFacts (@DailyRapFacts) December 6, 2023
The apparent rift started after it was pointed out to Metro Boomin that Heroes & Villains had amassed more streams in a single year (3.7 billion) than any other rap album since 2018 and is currently generating more than twice the amount of daily streams as Her Loss.
Commenting on the statistic, Metro took aim at the success of Her Loss by tweeting: “Yet Her Loss keeps winning rap album of the year over H&V. Proof that award shows are just politics and not for me.
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“Idc about awards honestly, the true award and REWARD is knowing that the music I spend so much time on brings joy to people’s everyday lives.”
Drake appeared to fire back at Metro on his Instagram Stories by quoting the JAY-Z song “Heart of the City (Ain’t No Love)”: “Damn, little mans, I’m just tryin’ to do me/ If the record’s two mil, I’m just tryin’ to move three.”
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Metro’s issues with the success of Her Loss are somewhat odd considering he is credited producer on the album cut “More M’s” and has produced several hits for Drake in the past, including the Future collaboration “Jumpman” and “Knife Talk.”
He also has a close relationship with 21 Savage having released two collaborative albums with the Atlanta rap star.
The alleged falling-out may stem from Metro cutting Drake from his Heroes & Villains track “Trance,” which ended up featuring Travis Scott and Young Thug.
Durin an interview with DJ Drama last year, the Grammy nominee explained that he believed the song was strong enough with the 6 God’s contribution.
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“Really, it was a song I had did with Travis and Thug, originally for my album,” he said. “I was in the studio with Drake one time because we were gonna do some stuff for my album. He just wanted to hear some songs from my album, and then he heard that one.
“He really wanted to get on it but I was letting him know that it was really just done for real. I was really just set on how it was. I was like, ‘Bro, I ain’t trying to sell you no dream. I’m locked in where it was.’ He had hit me and was just like, ‘Let me see if there’s anything you could add to it.’ He was like, ‘If you don’t like it, then whatever.’”
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The super-producer continued: “He did some stuff, a couple parts was cool but like I just felt like just even with like Slime verse and Trav verse and the outro, it wasn’t just no room. It wasn’t nothing personal… I just ended up using the original and I guess the other one just leaked or something.”
A version of the song featuring Drake’s verse later leaked online.
