Album: Metro Boomin – HEROES & VILLAINS
For as good as he is at making singles (“Bad and Boujee,” “Mask Off,” Post Malone’s “Congratulations,” and The Weeknd’s “Heartless”), Metro Boomin also knows how to put together an album. 21 Savage’s Savage Mode and SAVAGE MODE II, the Savage and Offset project Without Warning, 2018’s NOT ALL HEROES WEAR CAPES and its sequel—and the second installment in a planed trilogy—HEROES & VILLAINS: They’re all proof that rap in long form is still as dynamic as its bite-sized counterparts. “I didn't want to be doing those things where it's like, 'Okay, I just called every artist on my phone,' or 'Let me just show you and flex everybody I could get on the song,'” he tells Apple Music. “It’s like a movie, you know what I’m saying? Maybe in this scene we got these two characters, and you might not see this character until two scenes later. And now he’s in here with this guy again. And now all three of them are together. Just mixing up the bags.” Easy enough, or at least sounds it.