Speaking on fatherhood, Meek said “I grew up in a bad environment, but my son won’t have to experience that. On the album’s title track, he says: “I keep my dreams for the fame and all the spoiled lil’ (expletive), ’cause I got two sons that’s kings and they like spoiled lil bros, and they want everything - they call, I buy - I order them clothes.”ĭave Chappelle on being ‘canceled’ after Netflix special: ‘I love it’
Meek Mill, who politely requested an earlier interview so he could make the two-hour trek from New York to the South Jersey area to attend his 10-year-old’s first football game, reveals small glimpses of life as a dad. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP)īoth “Hot” with Moneybagg Yo and “Me (FWM),” which samples Lil Jon’s “Bia’ Bia'” featuring a standout verse from A$AP Ferg are club-ready bounce tracks, and “Ride for You” with Kehlani is a feel-good record showcasing the lost art of the hip-hop and R&B duet. There are plenty of tracks like “Outside (100 MPH)” and “Sharing Locations” featuring Lil Baby and Lil Durk, which has charted on the Billboard Global 200, that celebrate the pleasures that come with being one of the world’s biggest rap stars. Kkk in Philly kids killing kids ✨✨✨✨✨- Meek Mill October 9, 2021īut this fifth solo studio project is not all tales of street life - this is Meek Mill after all. And if something else happens next week in your neighborhood, it’s gonna pile up.” “You see somebody get murdered yesterday, you ain’t going to be thinking about that for a week…You’re gonna be thinking about that for like 12 years on a daily basis. “You’re living in so much trauma and buried in trauma, you never even get a chance to really develop and become the person you’re supposed to be,” said Meek Mill about his hometown Philadelphia, which had 499 murders in 2020.
(Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File) FILE – Meek Mill performs at Global Citizen Live in Central Park in New York on Sept. But I know if I go back to that corner, I’ll get shot, or get robbed, in a box to make me fade away,” he rhymes. On “Halo,” which features rising R&B singer Brent Faiyaz, Meek Mill illustrates the juxtaposition of making it out of an impoverished community while family and friends remain: “I just wanna go to my hood, wheelie a dirt bike, and post up on the block with the ones that think that I forgot, how we was standin’ on the corner with them Glocks. While Meek Mill holds his own with melodic rap, he didn’t abandon his expertise. “He can still get the respect of the older hip-hop generation - the Jays (Jay-Z), the Nas’s with his lyrical ability - but also will still relate and still appeal to these younger artists,” said Brinkley. Roc Nation executive Mike Brinkley says Meek Mill is part of a handful of current artists respected enough to bridge between older generations of rap fans who place emphasis on lyrics and writing and younger fans who tend to fixate on the overall vibe of the music. Yara Shahidi on her collaboration with Dell XPS to empower the next generation He takes a page from his younger collaborators by experimenting with melodic rap - the sound that now dominates hip-hop - on songs like “On My Soul,” “We Slide” featuring Young Thug and “Angels (RIP Lil Snupe).” While known for gritty lyrics and rapid, aggressive rhyme delivery, Meek Mill expands his repertoire this time around. Meek Mill is planning an “Expensive Pain: Meek Mill & Friends” concert Oct. Meek Mill’s 18-track “Expensive Pain,” featuring production from Boi-1da, Cardo, in-house Dream Chasers producer Nick Papz and others, boasts some of hip-hop’s brightest young stars such as Lil Baby, Lil Uzi Vert, Young Thug, Lil Durk and R&B star Kehlani. He is now an activist for justice reform. The next month, Meek Mill pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor gun charge in a deal that resolved the 2007 arrest, ending his legal limbo with the criminal justice system. On July 24, 2019, an appeals court tossed his conviction over doubts about the arresting officer’s credibility.