Future & Metro Boomin Cover GQ As ‘Hitmakers Of The Year’, Future Alleges Kendrick Dissed Him On ‘Like That’

Rapper Future & Super Producer Metro Boomin cover GQ’s “Hitmakers Of The Year” Issue and deny igniting beef or feuding with peers.

GQ is ending 2024 with the magazine’s highly anticipated “Men of the Year” lists. Future and Metro Boomin were crowned “Hitmakers of the Year” after back-to-back chart-topping albums. A collaboration project between the two Atlanta natives was long overdue and over-delivered, yet it still was overshadowed by hip-hop beef.

Following We Don’t Trust You and We Still Don’t Trust You we received the long-awaited feud between Drake and Kendrick Lamar. While the beef started on “Like That” from the first collaborative album, how Future and Metro view the situation might surprise you.

The duo covered GQ to discuss their joint albums, the fallout from both albums and their stance on everything that followed.

“People really think we sat for two years, making two albums [to be] like, Yo, f**k this dude. What kind of sh*t is that?” Metro said rejecting the idea Drake was targeted. “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.”

Many insist this was backtracking on Metro’s part after creating the “BBL Drizzy” beat and sharing memes during the beef. Metro eventually addressed the elephant in the room and shared the backstory of his issues with Drizzy, kinda.

“Me and [Drake], we had a personal issue, and for the record, not over no girl or nothing silly like that,” Metro told GQ senior editor Frazier Tharpe, courtesy of Elliott Wilson. “It was a personal issue that really hurt me and disappointed me. But if you take all the rap entertainment out of it, it’s like, have you ever been real cool with somebody, and y’all fell out over something?,” he continued. “It happens every day. It’s just regular sh*t. This just happens to have an audience.”

Future Finally Addresses “Like That” & The Drake Vs. Kendrick Lamar Beef

Future also addressed the feud between Drake and Kendrick playfully suggesting he wasn’t aware of any beef. Pluto alleges if no one cared about him or thought he was good enough for the “big three” why should he care about them?

“There was a beef?” he asks.”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.” The Wizard joked in the GQ interview before asking why he should care if no one involved cared about him.

At this point in the interview, Future drops a bombshell alleging Kendrick dissed him on his song and essentially treated him like an afterthought.

“He said ‘Big Three’ on my song,” Future said recalling Kendrick’s “Like That” Verse. “Nobody cares about what I think,” Future continues, breaking into a laugh. “That’s what was so f**ked up about the sh*t. 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 says with faux self-deprecation. “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.”

When asked by GQ if he’s cool with all the parties involved Future firmly believes he has no reason to have any issues with his peers.

“Yeah. Who I’m not cool with? Because I ain’t got nothing to be mad about. Find something I should be mad at them about, then I guess I’ll get mad.” Future told GQ. “Got no reason to be mad at nobody,” Future says, shrugging again. “I just told you, I’m chilling. Do I sound like I’m mad at anybody?”

We hate to be the ones to disagree with Future, but it sounds like he’s seemingly mad at Kendrick Lamar. What seemed like a 20 vs. 1 against Drake is slowly morphing into something entirely different. Drake and Future kept the subliminal jabs light toward one another, and reconciliation seems to be imminent. Young Thug previously called for everyone to make amends and repair their relationships.

You can read Future’s full interview from GQ courtesy of Elliott Wilson below.