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\n\tYou might recall that Future<\/a> and Metro Boomin<\/a>\u2018s hit two-fer We Don\u2019t Trust You<\/em> and it\u2019s sequel album, We Still Don\u2019t Trust You<\/em>, were larded with shots at Drake<\/a>. Not only from the two stars whose names were on the cover, but also from The Weeknd, A$AP Rocky and Kendrick Lamar. At the time, the barrage of disses were a head-scratcher to some, since Drizzy had worked with all parties in the past, even if some of those relationships had sometimes run hot and cold.<\/p>\n \n\tNow, according to a series of tweets<\/a> from hip-hop journalist Elliott Wilson of pages from the new Men of the Year issue of GQ<\/em> in which Hitmakers of the Year Future and Metro Boomin dig into the origins of their beef with Drake, the heart of the matter was personal, not professional.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cMe and [Drake], we had a personal issue, and for the record, not over no girl or nothing silly like that,\u201d Metro told\u00a0GQ<\/em>\u00a0senior editor Frazier Tharpe about the war of words sparked by the Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 Kendrick Lamar-featuring song he produced for the first Trust You<\/em> volume, \u201cLike That\u201d; that track was a response to the 2023 Drake\/J. Cole song \u201cFirst Person Shooter.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cIt was a personal issue that really hurt me and disappointed me,\u201d Boomin\u2019 said, without specifying what he was referring to. \u201cBut if you take all the rap entertainment out of it, it\u2019s like, have you ever been real cool with somebody, and y\u2019all fell out over something? It happens every day. It\u2019s just regular s\u2013t. This just happens to have an audience.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tAs for chatter that Boomin\u2019 cooked up his two-album set with Future with the explicit aim of dumping on Drake, the producer\/songwriter said that was \u201cfor sure\u201d nonsense. \u201cPeople really think we sat for two years, making two albums [to be] like,\u00a0Yo, f\u2013k this dude<\/em>. What kind of s-t is that?,\u201d Boomin, 31, said. \u201cYou 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\u2014going\u00a0over<\/em>\u00a0budget? That\u2019s some serious hate. Neither one of us rock like that.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThough the albums kicked up a lot of dust and attention, Boomin told the magazine that he did have some regrets about how he handled the issue online in a series of tweets attacking Drake in response to Drizzy firing back with his own Metro\/Lamar diss tracks, \u201cPush Ups\u201d and \u201cFamily Matters<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cNow I did have my moment online, which I do regret. I should have been stronger than that. That was out of character for me,\u201d Boomin said. \u201cBut at a certain point, it\u2019s like, I don\u2019t rap, bro, so you\u2019re going to just s\u2013t on me on all of these songs [\u2026] I\u2019m not going to get in the booth, so I\u2019m finna tweet at you.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tWhile Boomin was willing to open up about his feelings about the feud, Future was more circumspect, saying, \u201cThere was a beef?\u2026 I didn\u2019t even know there was a beef. I didn\u2019t even know they had nothing going on. I ain\u2019t never participated in rap battles, man.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tDespite his seemingly joking response, Future did wonder why no one asked him if he was upset at being left out of the \u201cBig Three\u201d list on \u201cFirst Person Shooter,\u201d on which Cole claimed he, Drake and Lamar are the undisputed top tier of modern hip-hip.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI\u2019m supposed to be the one who gets mad; I\u2019m still confused about that,\u201d Future told GQ<\/em>, according to Wilson\u2019s posts<\/a>. \u201cNobody cares what I think. That\u2019s what was so f\u2013ked up about the s\u2013t. To the point where I\u2019m so player that I ain\u2019t even said anything to the public about how I feel about it. Like, why is everybody mad when he was talking about\u00a0me<\/em>\u00a0on\u00a0my<\/em>\u00a0song? So y\u2019all just forgot about me, I ain\u2019t part of this Big Three, I\u2019m nobody on my song, man.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tAt press time a spokesperson for GQ<\/em> had not responded to Billboard<\/em>\u2018s request for confirmation of the quotes posted by Wilson.<\/p>\n \n\tLast month, in a tweet from jail, Young Thug called for peace<\/a> between Drake, Future and Metro. \u201c@Drake @1future @MetroBoomin we all bruddas. Music aint the same without us collabin,\u201d wrote the MC who was released from jail after cutting a plea deal in his long running YSL RICO case<\/a> in Georgia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n