“Everybody in this now see the beef only helped Kendrick” — Internet reacts as Metro Boomin says he regrets dissing Drake on Twitter

Record producer Metro Boomin recently shared his thoughts about dissing rapper Drake. The GQ magazine has selected Boomin and singer Future as the ‘2024 Men of the Year.’ Journalist and TV producer Elliott Wilson shared a few snippets of the interview with the personalities published in the magazine on his Instagram page on November 21, 2024.

The interview surrounded the rivalry between Drake and Kendrick Lamar in which the men of the year were also involved. However, while speaking to GQ, Metro Boomin said he regretted his actions as he was upset about how the One Dance singer took a dig at him. He said,

“Now I did have my moment online, which I do regret. I should have been stronger than that. That was out of character for me.”

After these revelations went viral, social media users quickly reacted to them with one X user writing,

“Everybody in this now see the beef only helped Kendrick this shit hilarious.”

Social media users pointed out that Metro Boomin was trying to make everyone forget what he did.

“Metro, all you had to do was play some drums,” a social media user pointed out.

“He tryna gaslight us into forgetting they tried to pull a red wedding on Drake, the north remembers,” a netizen commented.

Others noted that the episode was ‘cringe’ while netizens called it clownish.

“This is so cringe it literally was marketed as a drake diss. 5 different artists dissed Drake on the albums. You not re writing history buddy,” an online user remarked.

“They literally centered their whole marketing for both albums around hating Drake lol,” a person shared.

“im in tears bro what are they doing they look like clowns rn i cant even lie,” an X user wrote.

Metro Boomin said the issue he had with Drake was personal and not over any girl

Another snippet shared by Elliott Wilson showed Metro Boomin explaining that he and Drake experienced a personal conflict and did not involve any woman or anything trivial. He described that the issue disappointed him.

He also noted that close friendships could sometimes face challenges, but in their case, the situation was magnified due to public scrutiny. Metro Boomin also said,

“People really think we sat for two years, making two albums [to be] like, Yo, f*ck this dude. What kind of sh*t is that? You 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-going over budget? That’s some serious hate. Neither one of us rock like that.”

Future initially downplayed the “beef” but later questioned why he should care when others seemed indifferent. Referring to Kendrick Lamar’s “Big Three” line on Like That, a response to J. Cole’s diss track, he said he was frustrated at being excluded from the conversation.

Nonetheless, he viewed the situation as frustrating, feeling sidelined in his song by not being part of the ‘Big Three’ group. While his perspective differed from Metro Boomin’s, their insights offered a clear picture of the conflict.

Edited by Yesha Srivastava