Metro Boomin

CTL-E-5395 · Person · musician · 1993–present

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Metro Boomin, born Leland Tyler Wayne in St. Louis on September 16, 1993, started making beats as a young teenager, persuaded his mother to drive him to Atlanta sessions while still in high school, and briefly attended Morehouse College before music took over entirely. Working through Atlanta's rap economy — Future, Young Thug, Gucci Mane, and 21 Savage among his early collaborators — he developed a dark, cinematic trap sound announced by some of the era's most imitated producer tags. His run of productions in the mid-2010s, including iLoveMakonnen's 'Tuesday,' Drake and Future's 'Jumpman,' Migos' chart-topping 'Bad and Boujee,' and Future's 'Mask Off,' made him the defining producer of trap's mainstream conquest, and he co-produced the Weeknd's Billboard Hot 100 number one 'Heartless' in 2019. As a lead artist he proved a producer could headline: Not All Heroes Wear Capes in 2018 and Heroes & Villains in 2022 both debuted atop the Billboard 200, alongside chart-topping collaborations including Savage Mode II with 21 Savage in 2020 and two 2024 albums with Future, We Don't Trust You and We Still Don't Trust You. He also curated the soundtrack to Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse in 2023, extending his widescreen instincts from records to film.

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• Also known as: Leland Tyler Wayne, Young Metro, Leland Wayne

Notes

Statistics: Born September 16, 1993, St. Louis (Leland Tyler Wayne); producing professionally from 2009, aged 16; first No. 1 production 'Bad and Boujee' (Migos, 2016); co-produced the Weeknd's Hot 100 No. 1 'Heartless' (2019); solo albums Not All Heroes Wear Capes (2018) and Heroes & Villains (2022) both debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, the latter with 185,000 first-week units (AllMusic; Billboard via Republic biography, accessed 2026-10-15). · Curator's Judgment: DRAFT — Metro Boomin is the trap era's auteur producer: a St. Louis teenager's laptop sound became the default weather of a decade's rap, then graduated to producer-led albums that headline on their own. · Photo slot: CLEARED — Wikimedia Commons File:Metro Boomin 2024.png, JD Sports, CC BY 3.0, verified via Commons API 2026-10-15; direct URL https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/Metro_Boomin_2024.png; master in packet photos/metro-boomin.png.

Relationships

• Drake — collaborated with
  Metro Boomin produced 'Jumpman' by Drake and Future (from What a Time to Be Alive, 2015), one of his signature mid-2010s productions, and later produced Drake's 'Knife Talk' (2021).
• The Weeknd — collaborated with
  Metro Boomin co-produced the Weeknd's 'Heartless,' a Billboard Hot 100 No. 1, and contributed three further tracks to After Hours (2020).

Sources

• AllMusic, "Metro Boomin: Biography" — https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0003138395 (primary source)
• BroadwayWorld, "Metro Boomin and Future Announce Two New Collaborative Albums" (Republic Records biography) — https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwmusic/article/Metro-Boomin-and-Future-Announce-Two-New-Collaborative-Albums-20240309

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