Metro Boomin has enlisted Don Toliver for a collaboration that will be part of the Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse soundtrack he’s helming.
A snippet of Metro and Don’s woozy “Link Up” debuted as part of a Hyundai and Spider-Verse animated commercial on Monday (May 15).
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“New @SpiderVerse Hyundai commercial dropped today featuring “Link Up” feat @DonToliver. Soundtrack dropping June 2nd featuring all original songs inspired by the film. #Metroverse,” Metro wrote to Twitter alongside the clip.
The hitmaker will serve as the executive producer of the project and he’s predicting it will be the “soundtrack of the year” on the film side.
Fans can expect the Spider-Verse soundtrack to arrive in full on June 2, which is the same release date for the anticipated animated Spider-Man film hitting theaters.
The film is a sequel to 2018’s award-winning Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse and continues the story of Miles Morales, the half-Black, half-Latino teenager who’s taken up the mantle of the famous web-slinger.
With the soundtrack finished, Metro endured the toughest Mother’s Day of his life over the weekend as it was the first since his mom Leslie Wayne was shot and killed by her husband in June 2022.
This occurred just weeks after they’d spent Mother’s Day 2022 together, and in reflection this year, Metro shared a photo he took of her on that day.
“I remember Mothers Day last year we rode together to go pick up some pizza and you really admired the inside of this truck,” the producer wrote. “I had told you I hadn’t really drove it in years and I felt your antennas go up. You went on about the truck some more and I told you that you could have it. You got real excited and wanted to take a picture with it when we got back. You were the QUEEN of posing for pictures and I’m sure that’s where my youngest brother gets it from.”
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He continued: “You had so much personality and charisma as well as hustle and drive as well as humility and compassion and I know that’s where I get all of that from. If I only knew You would be taken from me a few weeks later. I miss everything about You and it hurts so much as I cry so much typing this. Everyday I’ve woke up for the past year is like a nightmare that’s never gon end. I Love and miss You with all my heart and every piece of my being.
“Gonna continue to do great things and dedicate it all back to You,” Metro added. “I can’t stress enough for everybody to love your parents while they are here because they are the only ones we get. Happy Mothers Day to all the Queens out there and to everyone going through this day without their Queen just know you are not alone.”
