And what was Future, the older, veteran artist, doing when he collabed on a tape with Thug, Juice, and Uzi?

Not hopping on their waves?

In the case of the last two he was working with two younger artists that looked up to him.

Thug and him are from the same City.

Weird way to put wave riding

He wanted to maintain relevancy with a popping young artist so bad he made whole tapes

Yeah bro those Uzi and Juice albums really helped Future out

Yeah they were just pity projects for some artist that looked up to him 🥹

No potential benefit for Future

Metro got hot with Weeknd, Spiderman tape, his own album and now Future and Metro tapes finally finished after all these years

The benefit was making some good music. Drake begged. It’s a difference

They have two albums plus their own solo s***

Pluto still hot what are you talking about

Sure, he's garnered that with his resume
Doesn't make him not an opportunist tho

Drake knew what he was doing hopping on wattba, this feels right , metro is done with his spidey stuff and future is hot off inly, this feels right

If Beast Mode counts as a collab tape with Zaytoven

I know it isn’t what OP meant but wanted to mention it anyway

And Future knew doing a tape with Thug after he finally broke through with casual listeners, after Juice had hits and Uzi dropped Eternal Atake