Russ answered Metro Boomin dissecting him more than three years ago in a recent interview with The Breakfast Club.
“The fact that I was able to be as successful as I am with – f * ck a co-sign – the opposite of co-sign … a lot of people in the industry, there was a time when it was like, ‘We don’t f *ck with you.’ There’s a sign we all have in common, “we don’t like you, we’re not f*ck with you, you’re weird,” he said.
“You have Metro Boomin, one of the biggest producers I’ve never even met posted something that said, ‘Russ is great’. “I’m not even talking about the music, just his spirit… 80,000 retweets. It was like, dawg, what? That added. [the “F*ck Russ” campaign] and, you know, Lil Pump said, ‘Me and J. Cole are great now, it’s F*ck Russ.’ It was like, what the hell did I do to you guys? Shut up. You’re too big – not Lil Pump – but, like, Metro, you’re too big to do weird things like that. “
He continued, “I’ve never met him, never talked. So I just looked at sh*t like that and I was like, ‘You’re a freak’ because at the end of the day, as an adult man is in this field and understands that we are all up against even, like, lack of confidence and trying to tackle this industry and we have deal with bullshit from the outside.”
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