A biography for Metro Boominhasn’t been written yet.
“I grew up in St Louis, just with my mom.”
“School is the same as producing: If you want to make it far, there are a million, trillion people trying to do the same thing. If you're not in over-grind mode, it's probably not going to work the way that you want it to.”
“Really, I just sit down, mess around, and play with sounds.”
“I like my name. If somebody wants to call me Leland, that's cool.”
“In high school, for two years, I made all my beats on earbuds. I'd just guess, so the frequencies would be all off.”
“Coming up, a lot of people I looked up to had a signature sound, but I came up, and I was always in search of one, trying to find it, trying to create one. I was never really able to have a creative signature sound, you know?”
“On Christmas, when I was 13, my mom got me my first laptop. I downloaded it, FruityLoops, cause I had heard about it, and started messing around.”
“Me and Future recorded so many songs that as soon as we did 'Honest,' I liked it a lot, but I didn't see it as a single. But he just kept talking about it after we did it like, 'Man, this is big. This is big. It's gonna be a single.'”