Future and Metro Boomin announce joint album We Don't Trust You 3
Future and Metro Boomin have spent the last two years setting the trap-rap world on fire, and the rumour mills in Australia have been working overtime. The Atlanta duo confirmed during a livestream from a Tokyo hotel suite that a third instalment, titled We Don't Trust You 3, is in the final mixing stages. The pair promised a release window before the southern hemisphere summer wraps, which lines up nicely with festival season down under.
The announcement instantly lit up group chats in Parramatta and Fitzroy, with fans already swapping predictions about which feature verses will land on the record. For an Australian audience that has watched this saga through late-night Triple J rotation and the occasional ARIA chart appearance, the third chapter feels like the moment the local scene gets to ride shotgun on a global moment.
The announcement that shook the internet
Metro Boomin posted a 17-second teaser on X that opened with the recurring piano stab from "Like That" before cutting to a manipulated voicemail from Future. The auto-tuned voice repeated the new album title over a slowed, bass-heavy rework of the original beat. Within an hour, the post had racked up more than nine million views, and We Don't Trust You 3 was trending on Australian Twitter alongside hashtags for the Laneway lineup.
What made the reveal land harder than a typical Friday night drop was the timing. Future and Metro broke the news just hours after Rick Ross hinted at unfinished business with the duo on a podcast recorded in Miami. That thread of tension, layered on top of a long-running cold war with Kendrick Lamar's camp, has kept Australian hip hop forums running hot, with users in Melbourne and Brisbane dissecting every bar Ross has spat in the past fortnight.
How the trilogy started
The original We Don't Trust You landed in March 2024 and arrived with the kind of shock value the genre rarely sees anymore. Metro's production felt cinematic, almost orchestral, while Future delivered some of his sharpest writing in years, taking aim at unnamed peers with the cold precision of a diss track disguised as a mixtape. The deluxe edition, We Still Don't Trust You, followed four weeks later and stretched the concept into a full-blown event.
That first record shifted more than 320,000 album-equivalent units in its opening week in the United States and charted in the top five in Australia despite zero local promo. Triple J unearthed the Kendrick verse during a late-night Hip Hop Show segment, and the station's text line blew up with Sydney listeners trying to figure out who was being dragged. The second instalment pushed the storyline further, deepening the mythology around the two main characters and giving producers like Boi-1da and Allen Ritter room to experiment.
What we know about the tracklist
The duo have been careful with tracklist leaks, which is rare in a streaming era where snippets usually hit SoundCloud a month early. Future hinted during a recent Atlanta stop that the new record will lean harder on the soul-sampling palette Metro first explored on Heroes and Villains. The pair also confirmed that long-time collaborators Southside, TM88 and DJ ESCO have contributed beats, while a handful of newer names from the St. Louis underground are credited as co-producers.
Fan theories about features have already turned into a sport on Reddit and Discord, with Australian listeners in Perth and Adelaide weighing in on who should land the album's centrepiece hook. Names like Travis Scott, The Weeknd and even a returning Kendrick have been floated, though both Future and Metro have stayed coy. What is locked in is a closing track that bookends the trilogy with a reference to the opening voicemail from the original 2024 press run.
Production credits and Boominatti magic
Metro Boomin's reputation as the era's most reliable hitmaker has only grown since the first instalment dropped. He has balanced blockbuster credits on records by Beyoncé, Future himself and a surprise feature on a Hilltop Hoods remix that surprised Australian fans last year. For We Don't Trust You 3, insiders point to a return of the cinematic string work that defined the second record, paired with harder 808 patterns inspired by the Memphis tape scene that raised both artists.
Future has reportedly re-recorded several verses to tighten the storytelling. The Pluto rapper has spent the past six months performing arena shows across North America and Europe, and the energy from those nights reportedly bled into the booth sessions. Australian fans who caught his recent Sydney show at Qudos Bank Arena say the live arrangements foreshadow the album's moodier direction, with several songs from the setlist sounding like prototypes for the third record.
The cultural ripple across Australian hip hop
The ripple effect of any Future and Metro drop reaches Australian hip hop in ways that go beyond streaming numbers. Local acts from OneFour to Masked Wolf have cited the duo's collaborative model as proof that two artists can build a shared universe without a label's permission. Producers in Brisbane's Fortitude Valley scene have built entire EPs around the trap-tempo, half-time bounce that Metro popularised, and those same producers are reportedly losing sleep trying to reverse-engineer the new project's drum kits.
Independent outlets covering the culture, including a community-run street culture archive, have started building dedicated timelines that document every leak, snippet and beat switch from the trilogy. The original We Don't Trust You helped push Future's Australian streaming past 60 million plays, and the deluxe edition added another 18 million in the months that followed. For a market where physical sales still matter and where local hip hop holds roughly a fifth of ARIA's urban charts, the third instalment is being treated by local distributors as a guaranteed playlist anchor for the holiday window.
| Project | Release Window | Lead Producers | Standout Moment | Australian Streaming Reach |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| We Don't Trust You | March 2024 | Metro Boomin, Southside, Allen Ritter | "Like That" feat. Kendrick Lamar | 60M+ plays |
| We Still Don't Trust You | April 2024 | Metro Boomin, Boi-1da, DJ ESCO | The Weeknd collaboration | 18M+ additional plays |
| We Don't Trust You 3 | Late 2025 | Metro Boomin, TM88, St. Louis newcomers | TBA closing track | 40M+ projected in Q1 |
Why the timing matters for the game
Hip hop's commercial centre of gravity has shifted since the first instalment. Streaming royalties have tightened, radio formats have opened up to hybrid sounds, and festival bookers from Field Day to Rolling Loud Australia are programming more trap-leaning lineups than ever. Dropping a third volume now, rather than waiting for a fourth anniversary cycle, lets Future and Metro capitalise on an audience that has already been primed by the beef cycle and the reunion-era nostalgia around other Atlanta duos.
There is also a long-game argument. The pair have been quietly building a visual universe through short films and limited merch drops, and a third album gives them a fresh excuse to extend the franchise into a tour. Australian promoters will be watching closely, since any global run typically includes a Sydney and Melbourne leg. Pre-sale registration is expected to open weeks after the album drops, and local ticketing platforms are already flagging the date range.
Subscribe to the newsletter and we will send every chapter of the We Don't Trust You saga straight to your inbox, along with weekly Australian hip hop picks you will not find on the mainstream charts. Lock in early for access to our members-only Discord, where local producers break down Metro's drum kits in real time.