Meek Mill - Championships (Discussion Thread)

[GollyImGully]

that Anuel AA keep fukking up my vibe on uptown "ILLLUMINATTIIIIIII"

And wtf was Future doing on his feature THis nikka keep getting on big tracks and just spitting all types of fukkery in the booth

And is Roddy Rich thuggas song?

 

[RAW_SPK]

that "your father was a rat thats why they call you mouse" was a joe budden diss

No it wasnt. He said something similar to Game when they were beefin

 

[Long Live The Kane]

I’m fukking with it...title track probably the dopest

 

[B!tchuoffendingme]

this is dope btw. a playlist of all the samples used.

I wish Meek would stray away from the trap sound, namely the ATL esque sounding shyt. I can still rock with the grimy bangers but they gotta be his Philly street shyt like Ima Boss or Monster, not deriving from ATL like so much music already. The more soulful shyt he was on on this album was incredible, we've gotten glimpses of it throughout his career with tracks like Blue Notes, Shine, Used To, etc and they were all great tracks. I'm cool with the more trap shyt here and there but if he put out a whole tape with tracks like Championships, good fukking lord. shyt, I'm even down with the tracks like Dangerous and 24/7, they're hits.

All in all, this album is really great. In this age of streaming, it's hard for a 19 track album to be straight the whole way thru. The only song I can't really rock with on here is the one with Future and Thug which is funny cuz along with Meek, Super Slimey among my favorite rappers. I think we can say this is his best album with Wins and Losses a close second.

So happy for the dude as well, you can see he has smartened up and matured a lot since coming back from jail. The whole story is crazy honestly if you wanna put it short: Stood tall while being clowned by everyone on social media from the Drake beef, goes to prison, becomes a staple of the Eagles SB run, fresh out of prison and hops right on a chopper to the Sixers game. Then drops the best album of his career. That man grew up.

I think it's time we start having a discussion about Meek's place in the industry. Everyone always wants to mention Drake, Cole, and Kendrick together at the top because of the time they came up together... Well Meek was coming up at the same time too and should be mentioned with them. Meek's music is a lot of what people try to portray J Coal boring ass music to be. In all honesty, and this might make people a little mad but... Meek is the closest thing we'll get to Pac in my opinion. I'm only 20 so he's kind of like our generations Pac in a sense when you take into account the music and his life events.

If this album is any indication of his future music, I'm more than happy with what we will be hearing in the future.

People always put Meek in the Big Sean tier category and his beef with Drake and sales drop solidified that image. But I think this album elevates him past Sean.

 

[B!tchuoffendingme]

Im shook by how well this song was crafted. It needs to be pushed as the next single, never mind about the Drake and Cardi tracks.

 

[mvp_status]

That sax on Championships makes me almost wanna cry


Now THATS a motherfukking beat for that ass, good lord

 

[OfTheCross]

this shyt right here just made me wanna go back and run through the LP again...

that's what good publicity and good music do!

off 1 listen I didn't like the album more than Wins and Losses, and I may not change my mind, but I did thank that the music was good enough to give another chance to

 

[Kliq_Souf]

That Uptown shyt is gonna be huge this weekend, I can already tell...
Them Spanish clubs gonna be playing that shyt heavy....

Wish i was in Queens right now lol

 

[Future Hendrix]

The more I see where the rap game is going the more I appreciate a dude like Meek. He’s the equivalent of an NBA player still putting up solid numbers and impacting the game while staying on the block or mid range, playing D and refusing to shoot 3s like everyone else lol. Its just good to have a mainstream star who’s not afraid to still do east coast street rap. And being in Philly and seeing how the city rallied behind him through everything was great to see

That's one thing I always loved with dude. He's also stayed true to himself through all these years and you can tell he still puts on for the streets where he came from. A lot of dudes rap about it when they get big but you can tell Meek is really still with em.

I like meek, son can rap, last of a generation of street spitters...but idk about him over tracks like trauma

He has a habit of only catching the beat in the last verse or later into the beat, and it gives you a glimpse of what could have been.

Dont get me wrong i dont even think mobb did it complete justice cos that was the start of the lean years (p made up for it later)


The dead pres sample doesnt work either and is nowhere near the utter perfection of the og. Its diluted

If these youngens feel it then great, but im obviously biased and off past glories


Ross and jay showed how its done


And just in general hip hop is affected by pandering to women

I understand what you're saying if you came up off that Mobb Deep shyt and Reasonable Doubt for sure. For me, only being 20, I didn't grow up with that shyt essentially. Once I got into my early teens (13-14 or so) and really got into music, I was all over the place in what I was listening to and didn't get a chance to go back and listen to the Reasonable Doubts, the Illmatics, and all the other 90's classics right away. So yeah I know what you mean because that's what you grew up hearing, Dead Presidents and Get Away. A lot of times you see dudes get mad at someone sampling their shyt or someone sampling a classic and ruining it. With Meek, that wasn't the case in my opinion, maybe the songs weren't as good as the originals but they were still good tracks. Plus, at least to me, it's pretty cool hearing someone in this era of music and of Meek's status and caliber going back and sampling some of these songs cuz it's you don't see it much.

That sax on Championships makes me almost wanna cry


Now THATS a motherfukking beat for that ass, good lord

Man shyttttttt I haven't stopped listening to that track since it dropped. That shyt could have very well been the outro tbh.

I’d say Meek is more Jigga than Drake is (for a while nikkas tried to say Cole was Nas, Drake was Jay and Kendrick was Pac). I feel like Meek is a modern version of all the 90s New York rappers and he has the authenticity to talk about the street shyt the others can’t. He’s influenced by a lot of people. I hear Beanie in there, Pac in there and some DMX too. And Jay-Z the most. I know Jay was smirking listening to this album because in a lot of songs he was sounding like a 2018 version of Jay.

Yeah I agree with that. You can hear all those dudes in his music for sure. The Pac comparison to me comes down to how his life has played out in certain ways that is kinda similar to Pac and how Meek has reacted to it all. You can see Meek has calmed down a little and matured some after prison but before he had that same outlandish and very reactionary behavior that Pac displayed a lot.

Stay Woke honestly sounded like some Nas shyt too, when he performed that at the BET awards, I automatically got a good feeling about what was coming. I feel like Jay played a huge role in the making of this album for Meek.

 

[Future Hendrix]

So did ross go at tictac69 cos he made a track with 50 or what, whats the deal here? Caught me off guard when i woke up and heard it like 6 this morning lol

I was wondering about this too. I ain't mad at it cuz fukk that pedophile but it seemed out of nowhere lol, Ross must have just wrote that verse in the last 2 weeks or penned it in at the end last second. But I don't remember seeing anything that would indicate the two had problems. Maybe Ross just don't like him lol. Meek was in the studio with him at one point a few months ago, had me looking at Meek like

 

[And you]

Uptown coulda been left off, but one more solid project like this meek will be Pac status

 

[HDiron]

Loving this album.

SideNote:
Anyone know how the Meek & Anuel AA colab came about? I’m a fan of both their music.

 

[Screwtape]

I was wondering about this too. I ain't mad at it cuz fukk that pedophile but it seemed out of nowhere lol, Ross must have just wrote that verse in the last 2 weeks or penned it in at the end last second. But I don't remember seeing anything that would indicate the two had problems. Maybe Ross just don't like him lol. Meek was in the studio with him at one point a few months ago, had me looking at Meek like

I was wondering why it wasnt questioned more tbh, seems the 50 link is obvious

And free promo of course


Ross aint stupid, he knows theres a simmering resentment towards 69. Hes got in early.

 

[Future Hendrix]

i need to hear the full version of this though

 

[sidenikkagawd]

i need to hear the full version of this though

Oh em gee he got Tha Mobb sample



Top 5 track by Tune.