Meek Mill and Drake Going Bad

Meek Manufactory and Drake has since bury their beef but it's clear that feud was taxing for both artists.

Information technology's been three years that hip-hop fans have been waiting for Meek Mill to drop an album. Their patience was rewarded with the release of Expensive Pain, today, October 1. Shortly after its release, the rapper took the opportunity to break downwardly his thoughts well-nigh the anthology with Apple Music's Zane Lowe.

As well the album, Meek Mill also revealed his thoughts on his at present-infamous beef with Drake back in 2015. The two started feuding after the Philly rapper defendant Drake of using a ghostwriter on their collaboration "R.I.C.O." As it goes when rappers beef, a series of diss tracks were released from both artists. In September 2019, the pair ended their quarrel after Meek Mill joined the Toronto star onstage in Boston.

Meek recalled that 2019 was an extremely challenging year for him, especially since he and Drake were going at it.

"I was at a disadvantage. He was winning, in the eyes of the people. I still walked my mode through that, went through prison house, I had to go through something. In one case I bounced back out, Championships," he said.

Meek Manufacturing plant as well admitted that times are notwithstanding challenging since the onset of the pandemic. The "Going Bad" rapper said that in spite of the circumstances, he believes that his latest anthology is some of his all-time piece of work, and he stands by it.

"I'm going to stand on my talent, and I'k going to remain confident and hope that people pay attention to what's going on because they got a long manner to go. I'm trying to continue pushing," he added.

The Philly rhymer continued on to say that Expensive Pain is one of his favorite albums right now because he took the risk to actually express himself. Meek revealed that the title came from his in-studio feel with Lil Uzi Vert and Brent Faiyaz. Both artists have features on the album.

"I really said expensive hurting on a song with Uzi when nosotros was in a berth rapping. I said, 'You lot ain't rich, your stash can't pay my drug bill.' Basically we fume a lot of weed and stuff similar that, and I was playing information technology for Brent Faiyaz i day in the studio, he heard me say that, he was like, 'That bar hot.' He was like, 'That's a fire word, expensive hurting.' He was like, 'That should exist an album title.' And I start thinking about it and then I stuck with it," he added.

The rapper too spoke about how rap mogul Jay-Z influenced his thinking as both a businessman and an artist. Meek is currently managed by Roc Nation. He explained how much The Blueprint influenced his thought process because of how of import music was to him and others growing up. Something he believes was besides influenced by the fact that he had no begetter effectually to teach him.

"We were immature, we ain't actually know well-nigh the level of stuff JAY-Z was talking about, only when I got older, I got The Blueprint, I was rapping, I was making music. And then that was the beginning of me falling in love with how JAY move and how he handle business," he revealed.

What continues to impress the "All Optics on You" rapper is the fact that Jay Z is always finding ways to give dorsum to the blackness community. He also shared that sometimes he texts Jay-Z to allow him know how appreciative he is of the job that he is doing for young blacks.

"Sometimes I even text him and exist similar, 'Yo, you're making a faster lane for all of us. I want you to know that,' because that'due south a large deal when y'all break barriers like the ones he pause," he said.

For Meek to be truly successful, he also wants to have a good human relationship with his sons and not echo the mistakes of his father. One of them is 10-years-quondam, while the other is just a yr one-time.

The side by side stride for the rapper is to perform the entire new anthology at his upcoming "Expensive Pain: Meek Mill & Friends" playback concert on October 23 at Madison Square Garden in New York City.