Metro credited his mother for his success and for being his biggest supporter.
“My name is Leland Tyler Wayne,” he told The FADER in 2016. “My mom wanted to give me a name where, no matter what I wanted to do, I’d be able to do it. An astronaut. President. Whatever. Leland Wayne.”
“I knew that he was hurting so much,” his mother Leslie said in the same interview, “which is part of what made me support him so much in the music.”
