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It was also funny hearing Meek talk about how stupid he knew Philly rappers have looked over the past year or so with all the beef ? over petty reasons....the interview shows Meek is clearly smarter than he can come across at times, especially with the slave master comparison he used for Drake and Arab...just be better if he put more of that side into his music. It's cool the Rolex and cars are trophies...but people already know you got them. Time to expand that conversation in your music beyond the trophies because majority of people who listen to his music aren't or won't be in a RR or have watches like his. He also needs to decide just how much the street ? matters because he can't keep saying in one breathe how toxic it is yet in another come off as bragging about how much time he spends in them and how many guns he's around, like when he talked about chilling with 21 Savage right before the interview started, it's gotta be one or the other. Either he's with that ? or he's not. Some things you can't straddle the fence on

mike06 wrote: »

blackrain wrote: »

It was also funny hearing Meek talk about how stupid he knew Philly rappers have looked over the past year or so with all the beef ? over petty reasons....the interview shows Meek is clearly smarter than he can come across at times, especially with the slave master comparison he used for Drake and Arab...just be better if he put more of that side into his music. It's cool the Rolex and cars are trophies...but people already know you got them. Time to expand that conversation in your music beyond the trophies because majority of people who listen to his music aren't or won't be in a RR or have watches like his. He also needs to decide just how much the street ? matters because he can't keep saying in one breathe how toxic it is yet in another come off as bragging about how much time he spends in them and how many guns he's around, like when he talked about chilling with 21 Savage right before the interview started, it's gotta be one or the other. Either he's with that ? or he's not. Some things you can't straddle the fence on

*STEPHEN A SMITH*

You're right.....but you're incomplete....and here's why.....lmaooo

IMO i think at the end of the day it's simple motivation for the youngins that ain't got ? ...yeah a majority of his fans may not obtain it one way or another but that's not the point....he gives them something to strive for and hope that thru hard work and dedication they too can get to where he is at....it's almost similiar to Obama getting elected in '04....no he wasn't gonna change the world much less the black community in 4 or 8 years but what he truely accomplished was igniting the spark for the youth behind us to now dream with no limitations.....Meek is sending dreams of hope to the hopeless......and on top of that why does he have to expand his subject matter so fast?...this is only ablum #2 and he said himself he's still learning and growing....if by album #5(if he makes it that far) he's still on the same ? then you have a point but for now he's not that much in the wrong with his reasoning IMO

Album #2 and numerous mixtapes too...he's had enough writing experience to expand more often than he does...but listening to the podcast and just how much he mentioned it shows mentally he's still in that mind frame so it's no wonder why they find a way into his bars so often. I'm not saying it makes him wack but it does make his music less interesting