Thereâs always trouble at the top. Future and Metro Boominâs long-simmering joint album We Donât Trust You shot to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart in the week since its debut, while Kendrick Lamarâs fighting words for fellow rappers Drake and, to a slightly lesser extent, J. Cole on the track âLike Thatâ hath unleashed the very fury my colleague Frazier Tharpe predicted they would.
Last night, superproducer Metro Boomin took to X claiming heâd been subjected to a barrage of spam calls from Toronto-area phone numbersâthe implication being that they may have been deployed by the 6 God himself. But the plot thickened when Metro shared his correspondence with a Balenciaga rep named Shawn, who had sent the producer an urgent emailâsubject line: âCall me this is Shawn from BALENCIAGAââregarding a recent purchase. As it turned out, the hacker had attempted to place an eye-watering $23,000 private order of Balenciaga goods including T-shirts, bags, and a pair of heavy-duty leather biker boots ($5,600) similar to the ones Kanye used to wear in his big-Balenciaga-boot days.
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As though this were a standard buyer-seller exchange on Grailed, the hacker asked thorough questions (âOversized or true to size for the tees?â) and made selects from the inventory. They also, bafflingly, inquired if the Balenciaga rep had any Chanel bagsâseems fishy. Yet when the rep asked for Metroâs credit card credentials to finalize the five-figure order, the text trail went coldâthe blue iMessages turned green.
Per Metro, there were several red flags that should have signaled something was afoot. âI would never order these freaky ass boots ððððð,â the producer wrote. The âtexting the Balenciaga store about CHANEL bags,â though, was a pretty good bit: âI was so mad but this part made me laugh a lil bit canât lie.â
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But Balenciaga wasnât the only luxury label the hacker tried to finagle on Metro Boominâs behalf. Complicating matters, Metro got a text from his Louis Vuitton guy (listed as âPete Louis Vuitton Topangaâ in his phone) alerting him to a suspicious rerouting request for the producerâs recent order for multiple pieces of monogrammed luggage from rapper Tyler, the Creatorâs pastel-heavy collaboration with the French house. (The hacker has expensive taste: Balenciaga, Chanel, Louis Vuittonâ¦talk about the big three!)
âPlease do not tell me I shipped everything to the hackers in Houston,â LV Pete pleaded, sharing the shipping address the hacker had provided. âBroooooo. Wtfff. No way, please you didnât,â Metro texted back.
That was enough chaos for one day. âI just found out in real time that all the Tyler LV I ordered just got shipped to the hacker,â the producer wrote. âGoing to sleep now ð.â Time to log off.