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“I was on the couch kind of tired and I woke up when he said that,” recalls Metro, smiling. last year, while recording “Right Now” with Uncle Murda. Metro, who has released just one mixtape himself, is now hard at work on a solo debut which, if it charts well, will be an easy way to boost his income.Īs for the origins of his trust issues, Future freestyled that drop in a studio in L.A. Producers of Metro’s standing typically make money in four ways: earning advances (upwards of $75,000 per song for big-time producers) receiving 3-4% of royalties per track (about 5 cents a song) half the $0.091 publishing royalties per copy, which are split between songwriter and producer (around $0.045 for each single sold) and performing live. Metro Boomin and DJ Esco onstage at The Fader Fort presented by Converse (Photo credit: Ryan. Into The Future: Raps Space Cadet On Coming Down To Earth

“We’ll mix a whole album and he won’t even hear it but he knows we’ll have it in the right place.” That precision has earned him the confidence of many: “Future trusts our ears like they were his,” says Metro, who works with an audio engineer to prune Future’s raspy verses into melodic punctuations.

Rather than outsourcing a track’s final stages, Metro also mixes every single song himself to ensure the level of each snare and sample is exactly right. His mom gifted him an MPC when he was a teenager, says Metro, though he rarely uses it. He still uses a keyboard and FL Studio, or Fruity Loops, the program he made his first beat on. “I love that young ear-nothing is boxed in because you’re hearing everything.”Īs Metro seeks fresh influences, his tools remain stable. “I love young energy, that drive,” says Organized Noize producer Sleepy Brown who helped shape the sounds of Outkast. “It’s up to the producers to really keep pushing the sound,” he says. But as one of a young generation of Atlanta-based beatmakers dominating hip-hop including Southside, Sonny Digital and Mike Will Made It, Metro feels a pressure to constantly seek something new. Dressed in a Balmain camouflage shirt, a custom diamond chain emblazoned with his loud moniker and his trademark bandana, Metro looks every inch the rising star. “There’s always something in Atlanta that’s so far from people’s comfort zone,” says Metro, speaking backstage at The Fader Fort presented by Converse following his headlining set during SXSW. His big break came with his first major label placement on Future’s 2014 single “Karate Chop,” which broke the Billboard Hot 100. Metro took an extended break from academics to focus on a career that had bloomed producing mixtape tracks for the likes of local heavyweights OJ da Juiceman, native, who made his first beat aged 13 and moved to Atlanta to study business management at Morehouse College. “I plan on making my mark on the legacy of hip-hop, period, but also in Atlanta production because there’s a lot of history there,” says the St.