It just got a video and become a weird summer hit in Baltimore and then DC (apparently not even in Philly!), so I thought it was a single. It was never even a single, it wasn’t released in 2013, it shouldn’t be here because this isn’t The Intros Jukebox. Y’ALL THOUGHT I WAS FINISHED? Okay look, the joke is that it’s an intro. “Dreams and Nightmares” is about compromise (it’s a burbling, festering hell-broth of compromise), stop forgetting that. Then I bought that new Ferrari hater rest in peace. Is there room to talk about how he’s basically rapping over “Tonight” by Elton John? I’d like to find a compromise. When I bought the Rolls-Royce they thought it was leased. Okay but how the fuck are you not gonna mention the beaming? It’s right there in the script. I did shit with Mariah! Meek Mill did it without an album, wherein “it” refers to “achieving success within the rap game” and “without an album” refers to “not having an album out at the time.” The subject uses Mariah Carey (born Main Long Island, New York), a popular and respected singer of “rhythm and blues” (“R&B”) as a yardstick for his own success. To fire a gun, more specifically a handgun. N- please, before them triggers squeeze. “Dreams and Nightmares” is about a dichotomy, about two lives lived, but Meek is only interested in the ways those lives create each other. Who the fuck hears this and reads that as “married to the rap game” without any caveats? Did you listen? Get over it: this isn’t about congratulations or sentiment. It was time to marry the game and I said yeah I DO. See, but these fucking RapGenius nerds always stretch these lines to fit their own projections of the romance of uncouth, unbackpack rap, which conveniently throws away half the song. Success is what makes him a hater’s Nightmare. Zach Lyon: I used to pray for times like this, to rhyme like this so I had to grind like that to shine like this. He used to Dream of achieving the success he currently has, and he needed to work hard to get to where he is today.

It’s the most amazing way of showing that the climb had too much of an effect to only talk about the destination. He talks about the present but he also runs through downsides past with exactly the same heightened force as if still experiencing them all right at that moment. The nightmare hits in a vertiginous rush, in the suddenly eerie sounds and in the startling mid-song drop of the Maybach Music ident, but most of all in Meek Mill’s intensity. He acknowledges the difficulties along the way and the haters, but he got what he deserved. First, Meek Mill is triumphant over dreamy piano. Iain Mew: A narrative of nightmares that turn into seeming dreams, played out in a song that turns from a seeming dream into a nightmare. Meek’s verbal images blankly stare, confront a listener and are gonna start a conversation even if you don’t want to have it. Passion is what makes Meek Mill one of the most impressive rappers of 2013, because where other rappers duck and weave these emotions into their music, Meek leaves it all on the table and doesn’t let one look away.

It’s that every word feels like it could and should change the listener’s life. It isn’t the aggression in Meek’s delivery that makes the song so compelling. MEEK MILL RAP LIKE he knows he’s one of the best rappers around, and he’s not afraid to show it off.ĭavid Turner: This is how you grab one’s attention.

MEEK MILL RAP LIKE he can alter things with just his voice, like when he decided to pick up the intensity in his voice the music has to shapeshift along with him, no other choice. MEEK MILL RAP LIKE he’s been gifted a gorgeous piano line and swelling string section, as good as anything on the Drake album, and knows he has to take advantage of the emotional complexity it implies. MEEK MILL RAP LIKE he’s keenly aware that a Maybach Music drop and major-label debut guarantee absolutely nothing going forward, that everything can change in 2014 so he better turn the title track into his autobiography just in case this is his one chance. Michel: MEEK MILL RAP LIKE he’s been waiting for this moment. Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment.I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES.Email (song suggestions/writer enquiries).

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