Cole, Lana Del Rey, Migos, Post Malone and The Weeknd. Yet its platinum-selling singles "X" and "No Heart" also established both artists as unflinching arbiters of cool, as they went on to collaborate with Cardi B, J. It's a lot of gangsta s*** going on in Atlanta," he said to XXL in 2015. "It ain't all money and drugs like the picture is painted. It was smirking, introverted stickup rap, exposing the gun violence affecting 21 Savage's life in a Black mecca. And while 21 Savage had released mixtapes prior to that, and he had even worked with Metro on one-off songs, Savage Mode was where a star was born. The original, an independent EP released in 2016, was part of a winning streak for Metro Boomin as executive producer and auteur, following Future's DS2 and a collaborative project with Drake, What a Time to Be Alive. Unless Wonder Woman 1984 premieres as scheduled this Christmas Day, Savage Mode II will stand as the rare blockbuster sequel in the COVID-19 era, complete with the Hollywood treatment. But on Friday, the same day Savage Mode II dropped, the James Bond film No Time to Die became the latest splashy sequel pushed back to 2021, which could tank Hollywood's bottom line once and for all this year. Typically Hollywood is guiltier than even hip-hop for cashing in on nostalgia by way of sequels. Hollywood might shrug at the first question, though it has certainly answered the second loud and clear. "Are things better or worse the second time around? Can we really do anything more than once?" the actor Morgan Freeman asks in 21 Savage and Metro Boomin's new collaborative album, Savage Mode II.
The duo recently released Savage Mode II, which feels like a big-budget revenge thriller. 21 Savage and Metro Boomin in Atlanta in 2019.
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