đŸŽ” Future Is Stuck in a Familiar Loop

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9 min readSep 23, 2024

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“If Young Metro don’t trust you, I’m gon’ shoot you,” is a prelude to one of the best collaborations in music. That was proven in March when Metro Boomin and Future released WE DON’T TRUST YOU, igniting a war between hip-hop’s superpowers, particularly Kendrick Lamar and Drake. The long-simmering feud came to a head after disses were put on wax for the world to see, with Future and Metro Boomin’s collaboration essentially opening Pandora’s box of hip-hop horrors. The second installment, WE STILL DON’T TRUST YOU, released the following month, only poured fuel on the flames.

The duo, along with other superstars like The Weeknd and A$AP Rocky, got in their slights, but the battle soon became personal, as we all know. While the party has largely died down, as Lamar has declared, the air is anything but quiet on Planet Pluto. On the heels of what some might consider the most destructive duo


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