Before Metro became a top-end producer, he was a 17-year-old beatmaker with hopes one of his beats would fall into the hands of a mainstream artist. One faithful email to Brick Squad rapper OJ da Juiceman got him an invite to his Atlanta studio. With permission from his late mother Le...
Universal Pictures X Yeat Twenty-two-year-old rapper Yeat was paid $1 million to write a song for Minions: The Rise of Gru. It was money well spent since the song, “Rich Minion” made the film go viral, leading to a record-breaking box-office release of $125.1 million. Upon the re...
both of whom had died in the past two months; the kinetic energy from one of the openers, a young street rapper namedKing Von; and appearances from A Boogie wit da Hoodie and Fabolous, the two patron saints of regional New York City rap. But the lasting image I have—the...