The man behind pretty much every big hip-hop song in the past 18-months, Metro Boomin, has revealed he is working on his debut album.
The 23-year-old college dropout is without a doubt the biggest producer in the rap world right now, and is set to release his album via his own record label this year.
Speaking on the project in a recent interview with GQ, Young Metro says “I’m heavily influenced by a lot of people like Dre, Pharrell, and Kanye. They’re all big time tastemakers and trendsetters, just for culture, period. So I strive to do that as well. I’m starting my label up, so of course I’m going to keep bringing new things to the table: new artists, new sounds, and new vibes for people to love and live with.”
If the album wasn’t already looking large enough, he also claims Michael Jackson and Green Day’s ‘American Idiot’ as influences on his work. He says “He [Michael Jackson] was always inventing shit and reinventing himself and his style. Green Day, just because, when I started making beats back then, they had that shit out, American Idiot.”
There is no set date for the album as of yet, but it will be coming in 2017.
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