Like That (Future and Metro Boomin song)

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"Like That"
Single by Future, Metro Boomin and Kendrick Lamar
from the album We Don't Trust You
Released March 26, 2024 (2024-03-26)
Genre
Length 4:27
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Metro Boomin
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"Like That" is a song by American rapper Future, American producer Metro Boomin, with fellow American rapper Kendrick Lamar, from Future and Metro's collaborative studio album We Don't Trust You (2024). Originally released in tandem as a track from the album through Wilburn Holding Co., Boominati Worldwide, Epic Records and Republic Records, it was released to US rhythmic radio on March 26, 2024, as the album's third single.[1]

Written by the three artists with Kobe Hood, and solely produced by Metro, "Like That" is a trap and hardcore hip hop track predominantly composed of lively percussions. Its trembling basses were taken from a sample of Rodney-O & Joe Cooley's 1986 song "Everlasting Bass", while additional elements contain samples of Eazy-E's 1989 song "Eazy-Duz-It". "Like That" received positive reviews from music critics, who primarily praised Lamar's performance. His verse, which attracted significant media coverage, is a diss aimed at Drake and J. Cole; some outlets consider it to be his response to their single "First Person Shooter" (2023).

"Like That" became a commercial success, debuting atop the Billboard Hot 100, Global 200, and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts simultaneously. It was Future and Lamar's third number-one single on the Hot 100, and Metro's first as a lead artist. The song also reached number one in Canada and peaked in the top 10 in countries across Europe and Oceania.

Background

On October 6, 2023, Drake released the song "First Person Shooter" as part of his album For All the Dogs, with rapper J. Cole, in which the latter shouts out the two rappers and Kendrick Lamar as the "big three" of rap music.[2] Additionally, Drake indirectly called out Metro Boomin in December 2023 for being a "tweet and deleter" after the latter posted a tweet on Twitter aimed at him.[3]

Composition and lyrics

"Like That" is a "bouncy" trap and hardcore hip hop track driven by "rapid" and "uniquely southern" percussions, as well as a "menacing" bassline.[4] It samples two songs: Rodney-O & Joe Cooley's "Everlasting Bass" (1988) and Eazy-E's "Eazy-Duz-It" (1989).[4] Metro Boomin, who has greatly admired the former group, contacted Rodney-O through his record companies and asked for his permission to use the sped-up sample on "Like That". He approved after listening to a version of the song that cut off before Lamar's verse started.[5]

Lyrically, Lamar uses his surprise appearance to directly respond to "First Person Shooter", rapping: "Yeah, get up with me, fuck sneak dissing / "First Person Shooter", I hope they came with three switches". He also rejected J. Cole's idea of the three rappers representing hip hop as its "big three" and claims that he alone takes the top spot: "Motherfuck the big three, nigga it's just big me".[6] Throughout his verse, Lamar compares his rivalry with Drake to Prince's reported feud with Michael Jackson ("What? I'm really like that / And your best work is a light pack / Nigga, Prince outlived Mike Jack").[7] Drake has notably compared himself to Michael Jackson on numerous occasions, including during the final verse of "First Person Shooter", and Lamar has similarly compared himself to Prince. Lamar also makes references to the Click ("Niggas clickin' up, but K.Dot be legit / No 40 Water") and Stephen King's 1983 novel Pet Sematary ("'Fore all your dogs gettin' buried / That's a K with all these nines / He gon' see Pet Sematary").[8]

Critical reception

Angel Diaz of Billboard ranked "Like That" as the third best song on We Don't Trust You. Diaz wrote that the track is "Hip-Hop in its purest form" and described it as "the album’s thesis".[9]

Andrew Sacher of BrooklynVegan argued that the Lamar appearance feels "like an event" and "another great one" at that, as he shows up in a "chest-out, no-bullshit mode" on the track.[10] Carl Lamarre at Billboard thought that Lamar appeared on the track with "vitriol" while delivering "an explosive verse".[6] HotNewHipHop's Alexander Cole called the beat a perfect fit for Future, "who glides over the track at the beginning and end".[11] Dylan Green of Pitchfork thought, "It's guest Kendrick Lamar who provides the song's showstopping moment, dropping the therapeutic malaise of 2022's Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers in favor of coming directly at contemporaries J. Cole and Drake after years of subliminals." [12]

Commercial performance

Upon the release of We Don't Trust You, "Like That" earned 10.26 million on-demand streams in the United States, and 25.62 million streams within its first three days of availability.[13] 3.73 million of its first-day plays came from Spotify, where it bested its closest competitor by nearly 400,000 streams.[14] Several of Drake's previous songs, including "First Person Shooter" and "What Would Pluto Do", received small to moderate streaming bumps either due to it being directly referenced in Lamar's verse and/or fan speculation over which of Drake's songs inspired his diss.[13] "Like That" debuted atop the Billboard Global 200 with 91 million streams and 10,000 copies sold worldwide, becoming Future, Lamar, and Metro's first number-one single on the chart.[15] It also marked the artist's second top 10 single on the Global Excl. US chart, where it debuted at number six with 31.9 million streams.[15]

"Like That" debuted at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 for the chart issue dated April 6, 2024, with 59.6 million streams, 9,000 digital downloads sold, and an airplay audience of 5.6 million.[16] It marked Future and Lamar's third number-one single in the country and Metro's first as a billed recording artist, having co-written and co-produced previous chart-toppers "Heartless" by the Weeknd (2019) and "Bad and Boujee" by Migos featuring Lil Uzi Vert (2016).[16] "Like That" also premiered atop Billboard's Streaming Songs chart as Lamar's fourth, Future's third and Metro's first chart leader, and at number two on the Digital Songs Sales chart.[16] The song earned the highest US streaming debut of any song since Taylor Swift's 2022 single "Anti-Hero" (59.7 million), while also accruing the most streams for any song in over one year, after Miley Cyrus' "Flowers" (2023) also tallied 59.7 million streams during its second week of charting.[16]

Charts

Chart performance for "Like That"
Chart (2024) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[17] 8
Australia Hip Hop/R&B (ARIA)[18] 1
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)[19] 1
Croatia (Billboard)[20] 23
Czech Republic (Singles Digitál Top 100)[21] 23
Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)[22] 37
1
Iceland (Plötutíðindi)[23] 3
10
Italy (FIMI)[24] 76
Lithuania (AGATA)[25] 8
Luxembourg (Billboard)[26] 5
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[27] 31
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[28] 2
Norway (VG-lista)[29] 17
Romania (Billboard)[30] 6
Slovakia (Singles Digitál Top 100)[31] 13
South Africa (Billboard)[32] 2
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[33] 46
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[34] 6
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[35] 6
UK R&B (Official Charts Company)[36] 1
US Billboard Hot 100[37] 1
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[38] 1
US Rhythmic (Billboard)[39] 32

References

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  35. ↑ "Archive Chart: 20240329" UK Singles Chart.
  36. ↑ "Archive Chart: 20240329" UK R&B Chart.
  37. ↑ "Future – Chart history" Billboard Hot 100 for Future.
  38. ↑ "Future – Chart history" Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs for Future.
  39. ↑ "Future – Chart history" Billboard Rhythmic Songs for Future.
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