Nicki Minaj Takes Jabs at Drake With Meek Mill, Brings Out Lil Wayne: Live ReviewĪt 18, in a world where Meek could “smell death in the air,” packing guns caught up with him. “For the love of hip-hop, we was taking risks like that.” That was Meek’s universe growing up in one of many YouTube clips from his mid-teens, he wears frizzy braids while spitting, “Let off and blow a motherf–er’s face off.” “You have two people standing face-to-face, saying the illest shit you could think of about the next person, and you’re doing it while you’re fully loaded and they’re fully loaded,” he recalls of carrying firearms to battles. Aside from Will Smith and The Roots, the city is known for street-oriented artists like Beanie Sigel, polysyllabic lyrics about gunplay and a competitive, often internecine, battle scene. Philadelphia’s poverty and violence are reflected in its hip-hop. “Sometimes people just turn to the closest thing to get money,” says Meek. Meek’s mother supported the family by doing hair, working in a bank and taking semi-legal odd jobs. When he was 5, his father was fatally shot. What’s wrong with it? Jay Z was a street rapper and he had a girlfriend.”īorn Robert Rahmeek Williams, Meek grew up in a North Philadelphia household where this level of success seemed unattainable. “You can’t be hard all the time, man,” he says of critics - such as rapper Joe Budden and, now, Drake - who suggest his romance is at odds with his hard-edged music.
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Drake: A Full Timeline of the Rap Beef & Who Weighed In Days later, Meek accused Drake of using ghostwriters on Twitter and onstage, prompting Drake to release “Charged Up.” (Meek didn’t respond to Billboard‘s follow-up requests for comment.) “She wasn’t my girl then, but now she wouldn’t even had did that,” he says.
Still, Meek frowns when asked about Minaj’s 2014 single “Only,” which features her Young Money labelmates Drake and Lil Wayne talking dirty about their crushes on her. When I do better than her, she still wins.” When my girl do better than me, I still win.
“She killed me on that song,” admits Meek, “but I don’t really care. “It turned into an ego argument.” But he insists her success is not a threat. “She wanted it to be my single, and I didn’t,” he says. Behind the scenes, however, the song caused their biggest dustup to date. “All Eyes on You” (which peaked at No. 28 on the Billboard Hot 100 and also features Chris Brown) is a love ballad the cover art shows Meek and Minaj, lips inches apart. On his new album, Meek occasionally softens his snarl. “But I might inspire somebody.” His most emblematic record is “Dreams and Nightmares,” the title track to his 2012 debut, in which he seethes, “My momma need that bill money and my son need some milk/These n-as try and take my life, they f- around get killed.” I can’t give you the melody,” concedes Meek.
“I’m not the best person at putting words together. His delivery is ravenous, almost shrill, and his cadences have the insistence of cranking pistons. He isn’t a confessional conversationalist like Drake, a philosopher like Kendrick Lamar or a rubbery harmonist like Fetty Wap. I can’t really tell my mom not to take that picture, that I’m not trying to have that type of look in the streets.” “I’m skinny - I got a little bird chest and a fat stomach. “Say my mom took a picture of me with no shirt on,” he says. “I would love to be able to just walk down the street by ourselves.” Even close family members could inadvertently expose him. “You want to be private with your girl once in a while,” says Meek. After ordering mussels and a pineapple-cranberry juice, he describes the hassles of his newfound celebrity. He recently released a gaming app, Bike Life, which riffs on his well-known love for racing dirt bikes.On a muggy afternoon days before the tour, Meek slouches into a leather banquette at The Park, a cavernous restaurant in New York’s Meatpacking District, wearing a baseball hat with his crew’s Dream Chasers logo, denim shorts and Timberland boots. Meek is a brand ambassador for Puma and an outspoken social media fixture, with around 9 million followers on Twitter and Instagram combined. His sophomore album, Dreams Worth More Than Money, released June 29 through Rick Ross‘ Maybach Music Group and Atlantic Records, spent two weeks at No. For Meek, 28, the high-profile attention - from both paparazzi and superstar rap foes - is new, but he is a star in his own right.
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