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It’s a good song, but it reads like old news here.Ī better calling card is “Tony’s Story, Pt. Kirko Bangz hijacks “Young & Gettin’ It” with his second-rate Drake imitation “Amen,” wherein Meek uncharacteristically lowers his tone a few octaves over Key Wane and Jahlil Beats’ mock-gospel piano, came out in the spring.
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And despite plenty of practice as a contributor to Rick Ross’ Maybach Music Group compilation series Self Made, Meek’s label debut lacks viable singles, at least until radio or MTV Jams jams one of them into our brains via relentless airplay. Frankly, listening to someone yell for an hour can get really fucking annoying. He also happens to be a competent lyricist, and it’s that talent, not his loudmouth voice or would-be rap hits, that proves his saving grace on Dreams & Nightmares. And on past singles like “Tupac Back,” “Ima Boss,” and more recently, “Actin’ Up” (with its guilty-pleasure chorus “These bitches be actin’ up / And these niggas be lettin’ ’em”), those shouted raps are aggressively uninhibited, the vocal equivalent of throwing bows. He’s not the first MC with a high-octane delivery - the underrated Ace Hood comes to mind, as well as Freeway, another Philadelphia rapper. Meek Mill raps as if he is typing in all caps: “I’M BRINGING TUPAC BACK! TUPAC BACK!” He tends to, if not necessarily screech at the top of his lungs, then at least yell loud enough to project an appealing bellicosity.