Pre-Drake and even more after the beef, Meek's oration has been widely reduced to frantic screaming by the online rap community instead of a highly-skilled rapper's impassioned, unfiltered delivery.
' Quavo, "Offended," with Young Thug and 21 Savage, and sure-fire single "Froze" featuring budding superstar He only uses it as a launching pad to set the project's tone as he raps "remember they thought I was done done," in its opener, "On The Regular." Tory Lanez makes the lone indirect Drake reference on one of the project's strongest songs, "Litty Again," rapping "I just counted up a Quentin Miller / A QM, that's a quarter milli." Among tracks where Meek raps high-octane, triple-time verses boasting about driving Rolls-Royce Wraiths, flooded Rolex watches, and cashing out on his mom's insurance, "The Difference" with None of the mess Meek's found himself in over the past fifteen months gets any airtime in his newest project, And even with the mainstream hold he already has, Drake surely benefitted from having an enemy-someone who could be used to prove that, while being more openly vulnerable than most, he could handle himself in rap's most drooled over element, beef.
Beanie Sigel had long been an afterthought. The Game's previous swarm of press came after taking mirror selfies in his underwear. Before Meek expressed his disapproval for Drake not writing his own rhymes, very few people were aware of Quentin Miller's existence. And while most of these encounters have been viewed as negatives for Meek, it's done nothing but keep he, and his adversaries, relevant. The subsequent diss songs and negative sound bites directed at Meek put him back in focus as the rap world's favorite punching bag, over a year after his standoff with Drake was initiated. When that impulse to be altruistic goes left, you get incidents like Meek's recent fallouts with The Game and Beanie Sigel, which stemmed from an alleged phone call to Sean Kingston tying The Game to a robbery of the singer's money and jewelry in an LA nightclub back in June. These are the beautiful results of Meek Mill's impulsive approach to good karma. In 2013, he signed the now-deceased, 17-year-old Lil Snupe 20 minutes after the Baton Rouge rapper walked up and handed him a demo. In 2012, after watching clips of his acrobatics on YouTube, Meek took Chino Braxton, then a supremely talented 15-year-old street dirt bike rider from Baltimore, and helped him become the first street rider to receive major endorsements. 3 on the Billboard 200 in its opening week, giving the rapper his fifth consecutive Top 5 debut.That specific effort may have been, at minimum, tone deaf as hell, but it wasn't uncharacteristic of Meek's quick-to-action, Robin Hood-like persona. Meek Mill’s latest studio album, Expensive Pain, dropped on Oct. The previous installment in the Dreamchasers series, DC4, was released in 2014 and included features from Nicki Minaj, Lil Uzi Vert, Tory Lanez, 21 Savage, Young Thung, Quavo, Don Q, YFN Lucci, French Montana, Pusha T, Guordan Banks, Tracy T, Snowy White, and Lil Snupe. “Ima get my next record deal paid in bit coin behind he wrote in an Instagram Story posted in October with a screenshot of Money Man’s 15 Bitcoin advance which roughly equated to $1,002,912 or $68,000 per digital token. A post shared by Meek Mill plans to unveil Dreamchasers 5 as an NFT comes weeks after the rapper publicly expressed his interest to follow the lead of Atlanta rapper Money Man-who opted to receive the album advance for his last album in the form of Bitcoin through Cash App-whenever he inks his next record deal.
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