Metro Boomin has been on a whirlwind press run of late and has now landed the quilt of Italian style journal Icon‘s newest concern.
Hitting newsstands on Tuesday (January 9), the quilt photograph sees the acclaimed producer carrying an LV Lovers aviator hat by Louis Vuitton, black coat and white costume shirt.
“He’s one of many world’s most influential producers, and there’s hardly an artist at the moment who hasn’t collaborated with him,” the journal captioned their Instagram submit revealing the quilt. “After two albums beneath his personal title – Not All Heroes Put on Capes and Heroes & Villains – Metro Boomin additionally curated the soundtrack of the animated movie Spider-Man: Throughout the Spider-Verse.”
“For me, music and pictures go hand in hand,” Metro advised the publication. “A music is sort of a movie, the place the listener creates the photographs. And the richer the music is, and the extra particulars you add, the extra vivid these pictures grow to be.”
Metro Boomin has been on a profitable streak as of late and doesn’t appear to have any plans on stopping. After the aforementioned Heroes & Villains, which turned probably the most streamed rap album of 2023 with 3.3 billion streams on Spotify, the producer is planning at the very least three extra albums in 2024.
Throughout a Twitter/X Q&A over the vacation break, he advised a fan he’d be dropping “3 on the very least” when requested what number of initiatives he’d be releasing in 2024.
It’s unclear precisely which albums Metro is referring to, however he has teased highly-anticipated joint albums with Future and J.I.D, in addition to one other solo album.
“I’ve already bought my subsequent 5 albums deliberate out so that you simply gotta wait and see,” Metro teased. “2023 was nice however simply watch what I do 2024!!!!! #itsgongetgreaterlater.”
Whereas there isn’t a agency launch date for the Future/Metro joint album, Pluto confirmed final month that the eagerly anticipated collaborative mission is certainly “on the best way.”
The duo have an extended and profitable artistic partnership going again over a decade to the discharge of “Karate Chop” in 2013.
Since then, Metro has produced a few of Hendrix’s greatest hits together with “Masks Off,” “Low Life” and “Depraved,” in addition to Drake collaborations “The place Ya At” and “Jumpman.”
Nevertheless, Metro dubbed his favourite collabs with Future to be a pair of HNDRXX cuts in “Sorry” and “My Assortment.”
“‘Sorry’ and ‘My Assortment’ 2 of my prime private favorites that me and @1future ever carried out. Love after we get on the Hndrxx wave,” he wrote to Twitter.