A Kanye West track from The Life of Pablo that opens with Metro Boomin's producer tag, 'If Young Metro don't trust you I'm gonna shoot ya', followed by a beat drop that arrives like an entrance. Vine and meme-makers used the tag and the drop to score clips of anybody firing a gun, or of anything that could be edited to look like one. The record's entry for a producer tag that outgrew the song.
The producer tag is a short audio signature placed at the start of a track. This one is a full sentence with a threat in it, which made it unusually easy to cut to footage.
The song is credited to Kanye West but the part that went viral belongs to Metro Boomin. Most people quoting the line could not name the track it comes from and would not need to.
The standard Vine ran six seconds: the tag, a pause, the drop, and a person, animal or cartoon discharging something at the exact moment the beat lands.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
