Posts tagged Meek Mill
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Str8 Like That - Meek Mill (feat. 2 Chainz & Louie V)
Let’s get this out the way: Meek Mill can write hooks. “I’m A Boss” might have had some Rick Ross adlibs, but Meek’s yelping “Yeah, I’m the king where’s my mothafucking crown” made it the perfect drunken sing-a-long rap song of 2011. And on Dreamchasers 2 it would be hard to call the hooks of “Amen”, “Flexing”, or “Lean Wit It” weak, when each song could easily run rap radio stations/DJ mixes for the summer.
So, why exactly did I choose “Str8 Like That”, which lacks Meek Mill on the hook, to be my highlight from Dreamchasers 2? Uumm, the song is just kind of perfect. The hook by Louie V is pure Swag Rap, a Roscoe Dashesque auto-tune soaring chorus on top of a steroided variation of “Show Out”. Louie V’s style is pretty different from Meek’s usual hard-nosed rap hooks that eschew any traces of sing-songy hooks.
Relieved of hook carrying duty allows Meek to attack the beat for two strong verses and sandwiched between Meek is rap star of the moment 2 Chainz, who makes the most of his materialistic boast by ending his verse saying “to tell a friend, to tell a friend, to tell a friend” about how much he spent on his paint job and rims. Right now, rap music is almost at parody levels of bizarre collaborations, as if rapper’s careers were controlled by an 18-year-old Complex reader. And as much as I like Swizz Beatz rapping over Araabmuzik’s production; Meek Mill and Swag Rap is a left field combination that makes more sense heard rather than on paper.*
*In Phily, Meek also has a history on some “Swag Rap” classics. Locally, he had two popular freestyles on “Swag Surfin” and “Ain’t I” So while this may seem like a departure from the harder MMG/Ross styled anthemic ish, there is a precedent. - A great note/correction of history from Crossfadedbacon
Same Damn Time (Remix) - Future (feat. Rick Ross, Wale, Gunplay, & Meek Mill)
Gunplay’s verse on “Same Damn Time”
All black Khaki jumper,
Acting a donkey,
Act the same damn time,
Got these bitches popping a monkey,
Metro Zu in here,
Where my crew in here,
With all these hogs in the game,
No room for you here,
Limo tents on my shades,
Skinnys on my blades,
Crocodile kicks,
Like my hood the Everglades,
Rich Forever paid,
Do it with no effort,
Now, let’s effing celebrate,
Toaster spilling grapes,
Hoes catching vapes,
Toe-touching freaks,
She jumped on my pole,
and did a pole trick for me,
Slipping on your pimpin that means more grip for me,
Grown lips on the Forgi damn near shallowing the street,
You own me homie (had at now???),
Imma pull that gat out now,
Must be out your rabbit mind,
I be thugging and rapping, same damn time.
The most joyful Meek.
Jahlil Beats - Ima Boss (Instrumental)
The first single for Meek Mill as part of the Maybach Music Group was the Lex Luger derivative “Tupac’s Back”, produced by Mike Will Made It, which for a first single was fine and provided great freestyle cannon fodder, but being derivative of the biggest rap producer and evoking Tupac is not a good way to get people to remember you after one single. Luckily, Jahlil Beats’ offered up a beat while not as dark as the usually street rap shit that is popular right now is triumphantful enough that you’d be to recognize a block away. The blaring horns that open the song are a more inviting sound compared to the Halloween inspired work of Lex Luger, yet if you remove the horns, the drums and bass aren’t too far away from the Lex Luger produced, Rick Ross’ rap game changing hit, “B.M.F.”. That might be why the song became Meek Mill’s biggest hit, as it isn’t a retread of current street rap, but a variation that fit the energetic style of Meek Mill better than a plodder, more bass filled production.
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Meek Mill (feat. Young Chris) - House Party [Prod. Tone Beats]
So, me and Soft Money finally started a blog highlighting rap songs produced by beat makers with such unique names as “Tone Beats”, “Beat Billionaires”, or “Hit Boy”. The name is http://producedatracks.tumblr.com/. Should be a fun little blog to do, and if you have any suggestions please do submit.
