Heroes & Villains serves as Diamond-certified Grammy Award-nominated producer and trailblazer Metro Boomin's first solo LP in four years and the follow-up to his 2018 full-length debut, Not All Heroes Wear Capes. The latter bowed at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, picked up a platinum certification, and housed the triple-platinum "Space Cadet" featuring Gunna, platinum "No Complaints" featuring Drake and Offset, platinum "Don't Come Out The House" featuring 21 Savage, triple-platinum "10 Freaky Girls" featuring 21 Savage, and the platinum "Overdue" featuring Travis Scott, among others.

Assembling an Avengers-level guest list, Heroes & Villains boasts collaborations with the likes of Future, Chris Brown, John Legend, Don Toliver, Travis Scott, 21 Savage, Young Nudy, Young Thug, Mustafa, A$AP Rocky, Gunna, and the late Takeoff. Heroes & Villains captured No. 1 on the Billboard 200, Top Rap Albums Chart, and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Chart, registering his third straight top bow on each of the respective charts.

Heroes & Villains attracted some of the most enthusiastic tastemaker praise of his career thus far. Pitchfork proclaimed, "The hitmaking producer's latest album brandishes his ardent ambition, attention to detail, and gift for curation," while Complex summed it up succinctly as "the ultimate rap blockbuster." GQ noted, "Heroes & Villains is the result of Metro challenging himself to push his music even further. The project is full of intriguing little sonic experiments."