"Trance" is a song by American record producerMetro Boomin and American rappersTravis Scott andYoung Thug, from Metro's second studio albumHeroes & Villains (2022). It was produced by Metro Boomin andAllen Ritter, with violin performances from Peter Lee Johnson.
The song was met with a generally mixed to negative reception. Its production has been criticized; Charles Lyons-Burt ofSlant Magazine wrote, "Metro is often just going about recycling what's worked on tracks that he's produced in the past, as with the sad-sack fiddle that he layers over the top of 'Trance'—the exact same one that he used onSavage Mode II's "Rich Nigga Shit," which similarly featured Young Thug."[1] Similarly, Hamza Riaz ofMic Cheque described the production inHeroes & Villains as "the most skeletal we've ever heard Metro, excessively subdued in songs like 'Trance'".[2]Uproxx's Wongo Okon commented that the gloom in the song "foreshadows the danger that lurks between the drums and hi-hats ofHeroes & Villains."[3] Writing forComplex, Peter A. Berry considered it among the songs which although "can suffer from lyrical blandness, their melodies make them compelling anyways."[4]
In January 2023, an alternative version of the song featuring a verse from Canadian rapperDrake surfaced online.[5] In an interview withDJ Drama on theStreetz Is Watchin Radio, Metro Boomin revealed that when they were in the studio once, Drake wanted to hear songs fromHeroes & Villains and heard "Trance", which by then had been finished. Though Metro already liked the way it sounded and did not intend to alter it, Drake still recorded a verse for the song. Boomin explained, "a couple parts was cool but like I just felt like just even with like Slime verse and Trav verse and the outro, it wasn't just no room. It wasn't nothing personal... I just ended up using the original and I guess the other one just leaked or something."[6][7]
