- Meek Mill Calls Out Drake on Twitter
Billboard- “Stop comparing drake to me too…. He don’t write his own raps! That’s why he ain’t tweet my album because we found out!” Mill alleged after firing off a few tweets. “The whole game know forreal they scared to tell the truth! I can’t wait tok these guys and sit back and act like they don’t know!”
Choo Choo, everyone aboard the beef train! It looks like we have something brewing here between Meek Mill and Drake. Meek went on a twitter rant this week alleging that Drake uses ghost writers to write his rhymes, including Drake’s verse on RICO. It’ll be interesting to see how Drake responds (if he bothers responding) and to see if Nicki gets involved. -KP
Alright, the first major beef of the year! Let’s get this started. Drake has long been regarded as the softest rapper in the game, as years and years of Internet memes and bejeweled ski masks will prove. Meek Mill on the other hand is an aggressive, battle rapper from the streets of Philly who has served jail time within the past calendar year. This doesn’t even seem fair. -Doc
I’d say Meek goes into this with a 1 point lead. CURRENT SCORE: MEEK 1, DRAKE 0
- WE HAVE A DISS TRACK
Well this is…something. Drake decided to hit Meek back today with his first ever diss track. I don’t really know where to go with this. I love that Drake dropped a track, I really do but this does not sound like a diss track. I wouldn’t have batted an eye if this followed Houstalantavegas on So Far Gone but someone needs to explain how beef works with Drake. Sure there were some lines about how rich Drake is and a couple vague insults but on the whole this shit sucks. Drake deserves some credit for taking this beef off twitter but he did it in the absolute softest way possible. -KP
KP summed this up pretty well. This feels sloppy, like if instead of writing and recording “Who Shot Ya” Biggie had just fucked around in a home studio for an afternoon and said “yeah, good enough” -Doc
Drake loses a point for not taking this beef seriously CURRENT SCORE: MEEK 1, DRAKE -1
III. HOLY SHIT DRAKE WENT BACK TO BACK
I debated skipping writing this blog and just posting a page of fire emojis but 1) that’s not why you come here and 2) I have no fucking clue how to post a full page of fire emojis. This shit is really really fucking good. Let’s start at the top, the cover art. For those who don’t know that’s a picture of Joe Carter in game 6 of the 1993 World Series. The Toronto Blue Jays were up 3 games to 2 in the bottom of the 9th losing to the Philadelphia Phillies (there’s levels to this shit young boy) when Carter blasted a ball into the right field seats making Toronto the first team to win back to back (!!!) World Series’ since the ‘78 Yankees. -KP
Truuuuu. All my criticism of the last track not being thought out goes right out the window on this one. Starting right off with some ’07 Weezy level wordplay (“back to back like I’m on the cover of Lethal Weapon”) and then going right on in. Let’s not go into every quality line here (there are too many) but just skip to the death blow:
“You love her then ha gotta get a world tour
Is that a world tour or ya girl’s tour?
I know that you gotta be a thug for her
But this ain’t what she meant when she told you to open up more
Trigger finger turn to Twitter fingers
You gettin’ bodied by a singin nigga
I’m not the type of nigga that’ll type at niggas
AND SHOUT TO ALL MY BOSS BITCHES WIFIN’ NIGGAS”
I GOT EXCITED JUST TYPING THAT
Adding to Drake’s win here is the fact that it’s been days and Meek hasn’t even responded to the first track. Drake gets 2 points for the best diss since “Ether” and another point for going back to back before Meek could even get off a shot.
-Doc
CURRENT SCORE: Meek 1, Drake 3
- Meek Releases “Want to Know”
I listened to this track yesterday and I’ll be honest, I already forgot what it sounded like. This track was like when you’re really nervous and you have too much time to write something and you wind up editing and editing until it doesn’t make any sense anymore. The biggest news about this track was Funk Flex jerking us off for 3 days saying he was gonna drop it without dropping it. The whole thing was a goddamn debacle. -KP
I’m sorry, I just can’t get excited about this one. I’m a big fan of Meek but this is weak. Sampling the Quentin Miller track the allegedly proves he ghost wrote for Drake is a nice touch, but this track really doesn’t go anywhere. It’s full of references that are either so generic they’re not hard hitting or so obscure that Rick Ross probably would probably have to look them up on Rap Genius. -Doc
Yo the line:
I just wanna know
If you ain’t write that running through the 6 shit
Tell us who the fuck was Quentin running through the 6 with
would have been a DEATH BLOW if it came right after Charged Up and Drake didn’t drop B2B. -KP
The most interesting part is at the end when Meek claims that someone pissed on Drake in a movie theatre, but then doesn’t elaborate on it at all. Weak track, days late. Meek loses a point overall -Doc
I forgot about that piss line too, did someone piss on Drake? Was it R Kelly? Did drake like it? What rhymes with yellow shower? -KP
CURRENT SCORE: Meek 0, Drake 3
So Drake obviously won that one, I’m dropping Meek 125 because the way the internet is banging with Drake now I’m not sure he’ll ever recover. -KP
