The dream part is me living as an artist making money touring across the world, and nightmares touches on everything that it took for me to make it from the streets." "A lot of the songs are about my life, my pain, and you can tell I've been through these things," says Meek, whose father was killed when he was 5. He gets plenty of help with guest appearances by Ross, Wale, Nas, John Legend, Mary J.Blige and Trey Songz. 2 in Columbus, Ohio.Ī two-sided story: On Dreams and Nightmares, 25-year-old Meek (aka Robert Williams) talks about avoiding the pitfalls of urban streets, while also exalting the success he now enjoys. He'll join Ross and the rest of the Maybach crew on a 30-date college tour that starts Nov. The Maybach Music signee has also had several high-profile showcases, including performing with label boss Rick Ross and Mariah Carey on the NFL Kickoff concert in New York.
He scored a top 10 urban hit over the summer with Amen, featuring Drake and Jeremih, and a second hit, the Kirko Bangz-assisted Young and Gettin It, is on its way up.
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His time has come: Just six months after he crashed several file-sharing sites with more than 3 million downloads of his free mixtape, Dreamchasers 2, Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill's long-anticipated debut album, Dreams and Nightmares, arrives Tuesday. Hit single 'Amen' featuring Drake called blasphemous by Philadelphia minister.He's signed to Rick Ross' Maybach Music Group.His 'Dreamchasers 2' mixtape crashed several file-sharing sites in May.more? Discuss this article and others on RedEye's Facebook page. Kyle Kramer is a RedEye special contributor. Although it's unlikely that "Dreams and Nightmares" will end up as one of the most memorable parts of Meek Mill's career, plenty of what it has to say should leave an unforgettable imprint. His evocative portrayals of violence and jail time on songs like "Polo and Shell Tops" or "In God We Trust" give life and humanity to rarely discussed realities. Despite Ross's efforts to make Meek in his own image, Meek Mill is, at heart, a fairly classic rapper, a gifted storyteller with an eye for detail in the vein of Ghostface Killah or Beanie Sigel. Nonetheless, while little on "Dreams and Nightmares" makes an effort to distinguish itself conceptually as a landmark work – it goes so far as to include the sequel to a story rap from "Dreamchasers" – Meek Mill's talent is singular. In a year that's already seen, in addition to "Dreamchasers 2," a group album from Meek Mill's label, the Rick Ross-helmed Maybach Music Group, as well as two Rick Ross mixtapes and one Rick Ross album, one might question the need for "Dreams and Nightmares." Songs like the lush, feature-heavy "Maybach Curtains" and "Lay Up," while good, are MMG boilerplate by now there have probably been two dozen tracks this year that convey the same basic mood and message with a similar cast of performers. Millions of free downloads notwithstanding, the bottom line is "Dreams and Nightmares" will reach fewer people and arguably deliver less hit material (its great lead single, "Amen," was already on "Dreamchasers 2"), making it potentially easy to overlook. By all traditional metrics, Meek Mill is a pure genre artist with relatively little crossover appeal. *** (out of four) In the first verse on his debut album "Dreams and Nightmares," Meek Mill notes that he "did it without an album." Indeed, by one measurement Meek Mill is the most successful rapper currently working: His "Dreamchasers 2" mixtape, released earlier this year, holds the record for the most downloads ever from free mixtape site Datpiff at well over 3 million.
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