Metro Boomin and Future Look to Marry Their Respective Styles, With Mixed Results, in ‘We Don’t Trust You’: Album Review

variety.com:

A.D. Amorosi Mixing the business of trap and the pleasure of friendship is what unites mumble-rapper Future with cinematic producer Metro Boomin.

With “We Don’t Trust You” marking the marquee collaborators’ official full-album debut, the two have produced a work of chilly, melancholy, deep-beat-booming hip-hop that rocks and rages.

But while their signature strengths are here, and clear, it’s not always an easy marriage; there is a give-and-take to who has the upper hand with every track.

Dropped Friday as the prospective first half of a two-album coaction (the follow-up is scheduled to be released April 12), “We Don’t Trust You” comes 11 years after their far briefer initial collab (2013’s “Karate Chop” track) and nine years after Metro Boomin produced Future’s bittersweet “DS2” album (2015 also marked Metro exec-producing the “What a Time to Be Alive” mixtape between Future and Drake).What’s fascinating about the dynamic is that, between the producer’s 2022 solo album “Heroes & Villains” (co-starring Future on “Too Many Nights” and “Superhero”) and his 2023 soundtrack to “Spider-Man: Across the Spider Verse,” Metro Boomin’s stock rose exponentially.