During an interview with Power 105.1’s Angie Martinez, Meek Mill discussed two of rap’s most acclaimed artists.
“I don’t listen to J. Cole and I don’t listen to Kendrick” Lamar, the Philadelphia rapper says. “I think that they’re dope lyricists and they’re like great rappers, but they don’t inspire me. It don’t seem like they be talking to me.
“That ain’t no hate at all,” Meek Mill adds.
The MMG rapper also tells Angie that he’s not a fan of today’s music.
“I don’t be liking the music that be out, though,” he says, “I won’t ever play it in my car.”
Meek says that he listens to Future, Dej Loaf, Young Thug and OGs such as Jay Z.
“Who music out right now that would touch me or inspire me or a person like me?” Meek Mill says. “Nobody really except like Future.”
Meek also talks about how he predicted that he and Nicki Minaj would end up together.
“Me and my homies still talk about it when I was sitting on the couch,'” he says. “We was watching Nicki on the ‘Bed Rock’ video and I was like, ‘I’m going to get her, on my life’ and you see I tweeted it like five years ago. I’m going to get Nicki Minaj.”
Meek Mill also says that she was around for him when he was in jail and that he’s in love with her.
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LOL well that explains a lot.
No shit right. Meek makes relatable music while the other 2 make elevator music. They cheated their way to go platinum unlike meek.
Lmaoooo you can’t be serious. Have you ever written music before? To do what Kendrick did with TPAB is fucking highly difficult. You call it elevator music because your scope is maybe limited. If you really listened you’d know that both of those artists make music that most people can relate to. Meek is rather one note. Most of his music is about his excess or such
Meek can make moving songs like the songs he did with nicki minaj.
There’s nothing moving or relatable about Meek Mill’s music. In fact, Kendrick and Cole’s music are more relatable than Meek’s boring screaming shit. Plus, they didn’t cheat at all to sell platinum, they have dedicated fans who actually buys their stuff unlike Meek, who’s last album flopped hard.
You sound dumb Dan. Cole had no features, how’d he cheat? Lol
yea, it shows through them wack ass lyrics.
Haha just cause they don’t rap about guns and drugs and the trap. very shallow minded you are meek
No, because they are mediocre, dumbed down, versions of other artists, you fucking idiot. He said he liked Lupe’s album, so kill that bullshit about guns and drugs you little teenage f*ggot. Only little kids and people with low standards think Kendrick and J Cole are dope.
@Phuck up beotch
YEAH, AND YOUNG THUG AND FUTURE ARE BETTER THAN KENDRICK AND COLE. #SARCASM
YOU ARE AN IDIOT
Interesting he like listening to Young Thug!!! But hey everybody got their own opinions. I will listen to Future music before I listen to young thug music…. FUTURE is NICE. But according to what he said… about who he listen to…. seem like he don’t listen to Rick Ross or anybody on his team music though.
thats funny bc meek mill inspires noone
What a clown. speaking to the brain dead zombies
There is nothing wrong with what meek said. Not everyone has to be all friendly in the sport of hip-hop. All of Michael jordans peers probably hated him, and no one has any problem with it. Probs to Meek for being honest and not so politically correct.
exactly what i think about him dope mc but i aint feeling him even though my nephew would kill me right now cos he fucks with him hard.
“Meek says that he listens to Future, Dej Loaf, Young Thug and OGs such as Jay Z”……………All the people on the radio
Lmfao!!!! Fuckin epic!! Thought no one caught that
Meek Mill you crazy..K-Dot and J Cole are the dopest rappers ever..don’t forget K-Dot changed the rap game with one verse
“I don’t listen to J. Cole and I don’t listen to Kendrick” Lamar, the Philadelphia rapper says. “I think that they’re dope lyricists and they’re like great rappers, but they don’t inspire me. It don’t seem like they be talking to me.
Meek says that he listens to Future, Dej Loaf, Young Thug.
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YOU’RE AN IDIOT, MEEK!
Nobody should be suprised Meek isnt inspired by Kenrick Lamar or the likes of a J. Cole being the weak wack ass watered down heard it all before lyrics dude be spitting.
Meek reminds me of Papa Doc in “8 Mile” spitting nothing but yakety tak.
Meek ain’t going nowhere with his ryhmes, like you said his ryhmes have been heard before. I won’t even sell 300k copies. He’s washed already
I don’t listen to them either.I’d rather listen to Meek Mills all day.Their lyrics don’t inspire me,and I live in Raleigh N.C.
he be like them boys use too many big school words for me..
Meek sounds like a complete hater here.Few months back he was hating on wale a member of his own team.Now he is hating J Cole and Kendrick Lamar am not surprised.Does he ever think about how many people his music has inspired?Stop crying Meek if all you listen is gabbage only Jay z and Dej Loaf are better.
He’s washed already, he doesn’t know any better. He listens to future and young thug, that says it all
this nigga meek doesn’t even have one hit record, while cole and Lamar keep dropping hit after hit.
This nigga pussy whipped and he talking reckless about Kendrick and Cole.
I grew up in the stuy in brooklyn and what meek said is something i’ve heard repeatedly from hood niggas. When cats like J.cole, kendrick,lupe and wale rap they go over the heads of these niggas. They cant grasp or comprehend what is being said, the words they use cant be understood or basically they cant relate, so they either say the niggas wack or they just dont listen to it.
I read through the rest of the comments, you’re like the only nigga with a brain here lol. The rest of the niggas here “can’t grasp or comprehend what is being said”.
Couldn’t have said it any better
Damn meek! I lik ur music but on cole and K.dot??? U must b sippin on nicki’s pussy juice…
So you don’t listen to Lamar and cole, but you listen to young thug and dej loaf? To each is own I guess
What you talking about, bro? Young Thug and Dej Loaf are the shit.
????…Young Thug & Dej Loaf are horrible lol!!! Dej Loaf couldn’t even rap that well in her XXL Freshman freestyle.
Meek MIll and similar rappers (Rick Ross, Waka Flocka, Young Thug, etc.) etc. wouldn’t be able to relate to J.Cole, Kendrick, Lupe Fiasco or Wale (Meeks label mate who he recently beefed with) because they can’t comprehend complexity in the lyricism of certain artists.
I like Meek as workout music but his songs are repetitive: money, hoes, guns, dirt bikes, & drugs. There’s nothing wrong with that entertainment wise but artistically there is no growth from these rappers. Let’s look at it like this: people who constantly make or can only relate to trap music have a certain level of consciousness.
I guarantee you that the rappers that don’t inspire Meek think on a higher level than your average trap rapper. Anyone can write a song that Rick Ross or Meek Mills writes. It takes a mind of higher consciousness to write songs like “For Free?”(Kendrick) or “Dumb it Down”(Lupe).
It’s similar to a kid that only knows a ghetto life of poverty & violence that can’t see beyond his current circumstances. Meek doesn’t have to dig to deep in his brains because 1. ) He’s very successful with the music he makes and 2. ) His fans probably aren’t deep thinkers.
“I hate today’s music. I won’t ever play in my car…but I be bumpin’ that Future, Dej Loaf and Young Thug, though.” What?..
LOL thought the same
You don’t listen to Kendrick lamar but you heard control though? Oh cool…
Control is a song on a Big Sean album, so yes, it makes sense.
What I don’t get is the continual mixing, both by Meek and the Press, of Cole and Lamar as if they are piers. Kendrick Lamar is dope, but Cole is the most mediocrest motherfucker in history. He’d be acceptable if he were in your friends cypher but beyond that dude weak as fuck.
haha tell that asshole,whether he goez to hell n comes back,KENDRICK is above him,Meek mill is jus a cheap meal for em dudes with grillz
I dont think you have to be from a certain background or demographic to appreciate different types of artists. i know docotrs who listen to gucci religously, when i get my weed, the dope man is always blasting j.cole at his trap. I think the problem with meek and alot of you is that you dont actually listen. The things alot of these artists say transcends the ‘norms’ of what their ‘audience’ because in reality it all is relatable in some capacity.
This dude meek got all these stories about cops doin shit in his hood harassing him and somehow cant relate to kendrick and j cole??? Thats crazy…. i guess all a nigga gotta do is say they sold drugs then he would be like yea they his favorite lol
nigga signed to a cop!
This dude is just hating!
It wasn’t a prediction! It was a fantasy! He got lucky… luck don’t last a long time!
The fact that this nigga fucks with Young Thug and thinks of Future as “inspiring” should tell you what kind of idiot he is.
future dope
“I won’t be playing them in my car.” What cornball ass fuckboy even decided all you can play is bass whipping music when driving? You can play more than trap music in your car, it’s not illegal. Second, these dudes been talking about cops combing the streets and knocking down successful and disenfranchised black men. A nigga that went to jail over some social media posts can’t relate to that? Jesus.
I’m neither from Compton nor Fayetville, but there are a lot (fuck nearly ALL of your audience) that doesn’t relate to YOU; most people buying trap music are suburban white kids that have never seen a lick of the lifestyle you live or have lived. Thinking you need to “relate” or live a certain lifestyle to enjoy someone’s music is ridiculous and absent minded.
but you inspired by the biggest fraud in the game, a lying ass correctional offiicer who never did shit in the streets but pretends he was some drug lord LOLOL simple ass nicca. thank nicki cause you wasnt even gonna get a release date without her.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASEEEEEE WATCH HIS 5 FINGERS OF DEATH ON THIS SITE….HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAAHAAA
this nigga is salty as hell.
Hold up!!! He says he don’t listen to Cole or Kendrick, which is fine by me, but then says he listens to Future, Dej Loaf, and Young Thug?? Wow!
Exactly. He just said that he doesn’t like what people are outting oyt these days but he then lists 3 mainstream artist that he listens to. I despise 90% of this generation’s music. There’s nothing to like about it but underground nad backpack rappers.
Thugga is better than J. Cole, maybe not Kendrick though.
Young Thug is the worse whatever he is ever! Future is a fraud and Idk wtf Dej Loaf is.Now I know why I don’t like Meek I live in the hood guns and dope everywhere and I don’t like nor listen to Meek Mills. I think Nicki Minaj must be sippin that sh!t to leave her man of over 10 years for this bogus dude!
ALL these new era twitting texting sissy ass so called rappers is wack as fuck, homie. Nothing but a bunch putos. Real talk for all you fruitcakes.
Said the n1gga that raps like his hearing aid needs new batteries
YAW meek mill,respect kendrick and jay cole,they are above you by far…i mean by far, n what do you mean when you say that you dont listen to new school n you are new school……………..you are whackkkkk bro………..
Good for meek for being honest. Music is always gonna be about what you feel. If he ain’t feeling Kendrick or j Cole then he entitled to say that. People hating on him for that is just foolish.
To each his own….but Kendrick and J Cole are artist who have been through the type of struggles that most people can relate to. The biggest thing is they put in the hard work before they amounted to anything. Cole especially went through all the struggles and still completed college. Their music clearly shows that they are trying to help other young people make it out of the hood mentality and be able to do whatever they dream of doing. To say that is not inspiring…. I beg to differ. When meek mill gets invited to speak to Harvard students, and also graduate from a university let me know. To each his own.
Meek lost all credibility with me when he talked about uninspired music but turn around and say young thug…Nicki got more bars than thuggy..
Meek better stay in his lane and hope Nicki dont leave him.
Wayne gonna hear about this…
LOOOOL The Officer Ricky’s disciple is really a wak ass nigga
Flop Milk is jealous because Kendrick whoop this clown ass in is own song (A1 Everything) Lmboooo
Wasn’t listenin to Weak Milly,he’s been irrelevant since his 1st song.Was just thinkin I would fuck Angie Martinez up her ass
He the last one to throw shade–This fool is wack.
This guy is a fool.and wack as fuck .both rapper he said do inspire him are better then his
Wack ass.but he name a bunch of garbage ass rapper he likes .I see why. They are all on the same level as him
This guy is a joke. If Kendrick and JCole would nfluence you…. you would actually put out good music. Weak Mill music is for the mentally challenged people, for people that don’t understand English very well and only can count to 5.
now that’s just Bullshit, the guy is a dreamchaser u just too jealous to listen to him.
Since when did it become a law that if you’re “in the streets” you can only listen to trap shit? Being from the hood doesn’t have to synonymous with being ignorant and simple. It’s like motherfuckers are embarrassed to be caught listening to anything other than the same 5 songs. When cars roll by, all you hear is the SAME shit. Some of these songs, it’s hard for me to believe that people actually like them, they’re just trying to be like everyone else. One major thing that has changed in the hood since I was young is individuality. You can drive through the hood now, any hood, and see the same 5 nigguz walking around, wearing the same clothes, listening to the same music, having the same conversation, with the same breed of dog (a pitbull, invariably, ’cause God forbid a mufucka in the hood have a dog that’s not a killing machine), reinforcing each other’s ignorance. If someone in the hood now has ANY kind of originality they must be ‘gay’ or ‘a funny nigga’. It’s wack. Black people have been simplified and broken down to their weakest form, and they couldn’t be more proud of it. Basking in their ignorance.
He is going to be living in Nicki’s shadow as long as they are together.. Look at the pic.. Smh.. The streets are gonna turn on you Meek.
Wait….u listen to young thug??? U wack for that bruh
He doesn’t listen to J.cole nor K.dot buh he listens to Young thug? And he is talking about delivering message in a song…what an irony
Future isn’t that lyrical but he makes good music. Meek is just ok. There is never going to be any artistic growth from him with each new album. It’s always going to same ol shit over new beats. He’s just a rapper not an artist.
Street niggaz can be lyrical and make music that inspire, and isn’t just braggadocios and materialistic ie Scarface, Nas, Mobb Deep, Goodie Mob, Big Krit, and Kendrick. What the fuck is Meek talkin bout. All these niggas grew up in the hood just like him.
This nigga stupid. That’s why J. Cole and K Dot music don’t speak to him, but Future and Young Thug music does. Sometimes you cant break ignorance. Maybe Drake can get him.