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Metro Boomin, Quavo at 2025 Summer Smash, Lil Baby at Rolling Loud Miami

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Key Takeaways:

• The 24-track mixtape blends nostalgic ATL lure with trendy power and options.
• Collaborations embody Quavo, Lil Baby, Young Thug and different main Southern rap voices.
• DJ Spinz and Zaytoven assist Metro Boomin recapture the uncooked, party-ready sound of the 2010s.

The wait is formally over. Metro Boomin dropped his eagerly awaited mixtape, Metro Boomin Presents: A Futuristic Summa, on Friday (Aug. 1) at midnight.

As beforehand promised, the Grammy Award-winning beatmaker got down to transport listeners again to Atlanta’s mixtape golden period of the 2010s, one thing he does properly over two discs and 24 tracks. Everything from the manufacturing to the lyrics attracts straight from an easier time in rap.

On tracks like “They Wanna Have Fun,” Travis Porter reminds us that “girls just wanna have fun.” Elsewhere, Quavo delivers the closest factor we’ve heard to early Migos on “Drip BBQ,” as he raps concerning the bando and diamond baguettes alongside J Money and Waka Flocka Flame.

“Put the phones down, too! Dance again! Party again! Have fun again!” Metro Boomin wrote in a tweet forward of the discharge. In a separate publish, he added, “This tape [is] really bringing me back to high school.”

Although he produced each track on the tape, followers can be happy to see he didn’t overlook the pioneers who formed that period. Zaytoven, Bobby Kritical, and DJ Plugg have their fingerprints throughout a couple of information, along with Honorable C.N.O.T.E. and London Jae.

The main complaint followers had main as much as A Futuristic Summa — and it’s a small one, all issues thought of — was that Metro Boomin didn’t totally ship on the “all-new cast” of options he initially teased. Most notably, Future, 21 Savage and Young Thug all seem on the mixtape. To be truthful, although, every of them solely reveals up as soon as. On the opposite hand, acquainted faces like Quavo and Lil Baby pop up quite a lot of instances.

Other artists who contributed embody Gucci Mane, 2 Chainz, Young Dro, Shad da God and Skooly, to call a couple of. Give A Futuristic Summa a spin beneath.