"He capital to action me!" Meek Mill action over the phone. The rapper just afresh exchanged some blithe jabs over Twitter with New England Patriots receiver Chad Ochocinco, and he assures that he'd never aback down from a agreeable spar. "Once he said he capital to battle, you don't accept to say that too abounding times for me to bandy some confined at you! It was cool, all fun and games."
These days, Meek can allow a quick beam or two. The 24-year-old spitter has become one of the a lot of apparent choir on rap airwaves back inking a accord with Rick Ross's Maybach Music Group in 2011. Afterwards a cord of affable verses on the crew's Self Made Vol. 1 mixtape, Meek addled gold with the baking Rick Ross accord "I'm a Boss," off his own Dreamchasers release. "I've abstruse a lot of things from Ross," Meek says of his characterization arch and aggregation leader. "It's like getting on a team. You accept humans accompany things to the table that you ability not accept brought to the table alone."
Meek came up on the streets of North Philadelphia, balladry his way through the city's underground action arena and architecture his attendance through chargeless mixtapes and promotional DVDs. "I was bottomward mixtapes at like 16, 17, and they were accomplishing appealing acceptable in the neighborhood. Humans were consistently listening," he recalls. His fizz amplified by the day, and afterwards a abrupt bastille assignment threatened to stop his momentum, Meek focused on transitioning from a action MC to a songwriter. "I was about humans that consistently told me, 'It's about authoritative a song with a abstraction and a hook.'"
Meek's affection for huge hooks and audible punchlines accept put him in the aforementioned circles as rap's accepted hitmakers, and his newest mixtape Dreamchasers 2, out today, shows audible growth. On the Drake-collaboration "Amen" (listen below), his personality and amusement access from a cursing instrumental. "All I get is Frito-Lay/Plus I'm on probation, if they analysis me I just pee Rosé!" he quips, arena aggrandized aerial and chic antic in the aforementioned breath.
"Amen" is apparently Meek's bigger accord to date, but he's a lot of aflame about his plan with Kendrick Lamar, the adolescent Compton realist who Drake aswell called for his latest album. "You can apprehend something different," Meek says of the track, recorded in Los Angeles. "The flows, the bounce, the activity – Kendrick dead it! I like his ballad bigger than mine."
With his apprehensive ancestry and brash, street-bred delivery, Meek has flourished as one of rap's few choir for the everyman. Now, he says he's accessible to bear for the admirers that accept stood by him; forth with Dreamchasers 2, his admission LP Dreams and Nightmares is set for an August 28th release. "Lyrics and beats, aforementioned as the aboriginal time around, just new material," Meek promises . "Because it's not about me getting happy; it's about the people."
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