“She wasn’t my girl then, but now she wouldn’t even had did that,” he says. Still, Meek frowns when asked about Minaj’s 2014 single “Only,” which features her Young Money labelmates Drake and Lil Wayne talking dirty about their crushes on her. When I do better than her, she still wins.” When my girl do better than me, I still win. “She killed me on that song,” admits Meek, “but I don’t really care. “It turned into an ego argument.” But he insists her success is not a threat. “She wanted it to be my single, and I didn’t,” he says.
Behind the scenes, however, the song caused their biggest dustup to date.
“All Eyes on You” (which peaked at No. 28 on the Billboard Hot 100 and also features Chris Brown) is a love ballad the cover art shows Meek and Minaj, lips inches apart. On his new album, Meek occasionally softens his snarl. “But I might inspire somebody.” His most emblematic record is “Dreams and Nightmares,” the title track to his 2012 debut, in which he seethes, “My momma need that bill money and my son need some milk/These n-as try and take my life, they f- around get killed.” I can’t give you the melody,” concedes Meek. “I’m not the best person at putting words together. His delivery is ravenous, almost shrill, and his cadences have the insistence of cranking pistons. He isn’t a confessional conversationalist like Drake, a philosopher like Kendrick Lamar or a rubbery harmonist like Fetty Wap.
I can’t really tell my mom not to take that picture, that I’m not trying to have that type of look in the streets.” “I’m skinny - I got a little bird chest and a fat stomach. “Say my mom took a picture of me with no shirt on,” he says. “I would love to be able to just walk down the street by ourselves.” Even close family members could inadvertently expose him. “You want to be private with your girl once in a while,” says Meek. After ordering mussels and a pineapple-cranberry juice, he describes the hassles of his newfound celebrity. He recently released a gaming app, Bike Life, which riffs on his well-known love for racing dirt bikes.On a muggy afternoon days before the tour, Meek slouches into a leather banquette at The Park, a cavernous restaurant in New York’s Meatpacking District, wearing a baseball hat with his crew’s Dream Chasers logo, denim shorts and Timberland boots. Meek is a brand ambassador for Puma and an outspoken social media fixture, with around 9 million followers on Twitter and Instagram combined. His sophomore album, Dreams Worth More Than Money, released June 29 through Rick Ross‘ Maybach Music Group and Atlantic Records, spent two weeks at No. For Meek, 28, the high-profile attention - from both paparazzi and superstar rap foes - is new, but he is a star in his own right.
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