Leland Tyler Wayne was born on September 16, 1993, in St. Louis, Missouri,[3] where he attended Parkway North High School. He has four siblings.[4] After a brief stint playing bass guitar in his middle school band, he turned to making beats in the seventh grade at age 13, when his mother bought him a laptop and he got a copy of the music production software FruityLoops.[5] In high school, Metro churned out five beats a day.[6] Initially, Metro wanted to rap, and started making beats so that he could have music to rap over, he made the beats himself because the beats cost more back in the days, he turned his full attention into hip hop production.[7] As he continued to hone his production skills, while still in high school, he began to utilize online social media platforms such as Twitter to network with more established rap artists as well as beat submissions for potential music placements.[8]