In the days following the release of Meek Mill’s Wins & Losses, it seemed like the Dreamchasers founder had finally moved forward in his career. The Philly rapper was able to put all of the BS behind him and delivered a project that was well-received by those willing to give it a chance.
After being consumed by multiple feuds and the tabloid fodder of his relationship with Nicki Minaj for much of the last two years, Meek looked like he’d started a new chapter in his life. But just as he began this proverbial winning streak, he managed to shoot himself in the foot once again.
Amid an overwhelmingly positive reaction to Wins & Losses, news emerged of Meek having a hidden Drake diss on the album. The Maybach Music Group artist either hid or mistakenly left some bars about Drizzy on the clean version of the LP. On the song “1942 Flows,” Meek delivers an extended third verse with the following rhymes:
Heard they say I talk about my Rollies too much
But them flows you be using sounding stolen too much
500 on my neck, they say I’m glowing too much
Had to block that little bitch because she blowing me up
You be doing too much, you only looking for attention
Swagger jacking, jacking niggas’ swag, that’s extentious
Came in the culture like a vulture, now you winning
But this is just the beginning, Double M the emblem for real
For whatever reason, these lines didn’t appear on the explicit version of the project — the one most people will hear. As a result, Meek comes across like a rapper who’s fearful of how this diss will be received. If he actually meant to cut these bars, it’s a terrible look to have them go public via a mishap behind the scenes. And if he did it on purpose, then he tried to bury his barbs on an edition of the LP that the majority of his listeners won’t consume. Meek can’t win for losing.
Essentially, Meek had a 3-1 lead in the playoffs and managed to let in slip away.
He put together a brilliant rollout for Wins & Losses, dropping a series of creative short films inspired by the album. He gave insightful interviews that made him seem like an artist who truly understood his position in rap’s crowded landscape. Then, he delivered quality music that managed to silence some of his loudest critics. But still, he somehow managed to fumble on the goal line with his handling of this Drake diss.
The “Whatever You Need” MC had every reason to diss Drizzy. Their storied beef has become a predominant aspect of his entire career and his rival continues to throw shots him, as heard on the More Life playlist. So why the subterfuge?
The bars are good. The criticism is valid. Meek actually had the perfect opportunity to assert himself in a battle that turned him into a laughing stock. Instead, he seemingly shied away from the conflict. One can only assume he’s worried about the reaction.
Perhaps he doesn’t want to be in the mega star’s crossfire again. Maybe he’s ready to move on to another chapter in his career. But this backhanded release of a diss indicates his issues with Drake are still messing with his psyche.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t appear to be something he wants to either truly confront or move past.
Until Meek does, he can’t really win.
This fucking guy is a walking, talking L.
Lol I know drake pay y’all now…
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Yall lame as fuck for this… u that thirsty for attention.. hes taking nothing buy W’s. Major L for your lame ass platform Justin u a drake dick rider
Yall riding drake nuts with this article smh
“Meek had a 3-1 lead in the finals” what game you watching hhdx? Meek got sweeped by a singing ni**a
Smh not everybody has to like your favorite pop singer. Understand it, you lil groupie.
Meek’s problem is the label he is signed to. I know Ross said he has no problem with his artist being bigger than him, but let’s be honest, MMG is a death camp. that’s where artists go to die…..look at the entire roster, none of them can get over the hump. At some point, you have to look at the common denominator, and no matter how hot a record they drop, all MMG artists never (and will never) ascertain greatness.
So true, kind of like Jay Z with Roc A Fella. None of them dudes that signed with Roc A Fella did better than gold and that’s if they got to gold. Cam’ron, the only MC Roc A Fella signed that went platinum, was hated by Jay Z
This headline is fucked Meek didn’t ruin shit, this album is 10/10 and that diss was just going to make the album better, either way is hot and is relevant, Drake took his shots and DX didn’t call it an L, now Meek takes his shot back you guys are saying he ruin his winning streak, bias motherflowers, need a better writters
“3-1 lead in the playoffs” – FOH. Honestly, anything Meek puts out at this point is like a regular season game. Meek is like the Knicks, you see the potential, but you know they not going no where. When playoff time come, ain’t nobody thinking bout him.
3-1 lead? When? What I miss? Last I checked it was a clean sweep
If your JJ from the IC you’re a bitch.
Id take Meek L’s over the L’s most of his haters take throughout their lives. Stfu! He made one of the best comebacks ever!
I think this is funny. This had 23 comments and hour ago. Now…13. Justin this shows completely how ignorant and dumb and hypocritical you people at hiphopdx are. You guys are part of the media and the president is trying to put in place libel laws so medias don’t have the First Amendment. Then you the media are gonna delete our comments showing you how we feel about the matter. Justin if you can’t stand the heat then get out of the kitchen. Go ahead and delete this too
Wow, only Hiphopdx could make a story, and it instantly be about holding on to drakes pee-pee too much. Justin Ivey, just like your reviews, you really are clueless
Hiphopdx it’s very clear yall are reaching and don’t like meek, Honestly that didn’t even sound like much of a diss that could have fit a lot of people. Yall wanna see this dude fall so bad. He ain’t losing got one of the hottest albums out right now and it is straight fire! Yall couldn’t find anything so yall throw this bs out there. Get off this dudes back enjoy his music and ignore him on social media.
His music is on fire! He’s always winning while they hate and mention him everywhere!
thought Drake dissed Meek on his LATEST album,wats wrong wen Meek do the same.Drake diss Meek all the time and ya’ll think its wrong wen he does it too
it’s because HHDX are a bunch of culture vultures who will always favor the light skinned dude who grew up rich in Canada over the dark skin dude from the streets of Philly. The writers of HHDX relate much more to Canada, degrassi, and middle class white culture. Hip Hop and the streets is something completely foreign to the people who run HHDX.
the article never says there’s anything wrong with meek dissing drake… the PROBLEM is when you half ass try to cover it up whether intentional or not. If you’re gonna diss somebody go ALL in! you can’t be shy about it when you’re posing as some street dude
Meeks new album is hot, he is killing freestyles, the lead up to the album was dope!! This article is BS
this article does not refute any of those claims.. so why is the article bs? you didn’t give any valid points
Meek Mill is the bitter ex who still hasn’t gotten over his high school sweetheart 10 years after she’s married with kids and stays stalking her lmao move the fuck on you piece of talentless shit.
Hip hop Dx is definitely a drake stan…confirmed.
That was confirmed a long time ago
Winning streak?
He is trash with trash bars and rhymes and consistently takes L’s.
I won’t read this guy anymore apparently only drake can sneak diss nobody else can. Especially Little Fish.
he makes a decent point though. I feel like he’s looking for clarity. If he removed the lyrics for the explicit(which is where you would most likely want the diss to throw your swear words in or whatever) then why wouldn’t he remove them for both? Like this is how the song is supposed to be. But now you find out there’s two versions and one of them contains a diss to a rapper, it really doesn’t matter that the diss is towards drake, shit nikki is thrown in there too. What matters is that it looks like somebody forgot to remove these lyrics on the censored version and now the question is why? was it because he didn’t want the diss recorded and want to keep perpetuating a beef that he terribly lost and most likely will never finish as the victor, or was it just a simple mistake on the part of the person who was supposed to remove these lyrics? or maybe the person on the explicit version forgot to add these lyrics? either way i think that is good journalism to bring this topic up because not many people would’ve even known of this.
This comments thread is the last of Meek’s fanbase. Lol.
Dont give a fuck..NEW WAVES BONE THUGS MOST UNDERRATED ALBUM OF 2017.
ON MY MOMMA
lol win streak?WHEN!??The L champ!!
How he taking L’s when street mf’s respect him. Not that I think that much of him as an MC. He only taking L’s in the world of middle class high schools. Sorry but hip hop ain’t about a rich kid loved by middle class high schoolers or young adults who grew up watching degrassi
Damn y’all are some Drake dick riders. It was actually a good diss this time around, and also true. This was the wackest beef in the history of hip hop. Really wasn’t a hip hop battle. It was a high school popularity contest on Drake’s home turf. Meek is the dark skinned kid moving out of the ghetto to a middle class school that all the little chumps are scared of, and Drake is the light skinned popular kid the little chumps run too and get behind. On the serious note, HHDX stop riding dick and start doing actual journalism.
Straight up we all need to stop visiting this site. We’re encouraging them to continue this bs coverage by giving them clicks, I’m guilty of it too but let’s just stop. Let’s stop coming here and let this place die the death it deserves.
Had to go on Justin Ivey twitter page….Lol dude looks like Post Malone brother. Or a typical drake stan. You also look like you say N!gga a whole lot, to be a white guy.
Just know if you post something positive about meek your comment can be erased. Most likely meek will have the number 1 album in the country next week, one of the hottest rap albums of the year. Out of his 3 mainstream releases this is the best album he really went in, but to yall he losing??? He messed up??? He can’t diss drake??? didn’t even sound like much of a diss to me. They should change the name of this site to We hate Meek Mill and will pull shit out the air to try to make him look bad dx
DX/TrentClarkDaNarc censors everything. Whoever laced Trents pockets the most gets control of DX narrative. If you type any truth or contradiction against they precious weak af storyline they delete cuz they pussy. So you can see drizzy slobbed on dat knob this morning for DX bias
I usually don’t comment but this article is hmmmm…. about as atrocious as Charlamagne is at interviewing. Let Meek do him.
Look, you all should really consider taking free lance writers. HHDX is great in theory but articles like these are strange.
This is not journalism. This is filled with Bias. — It is time for something new….HIPHOPDX is dead.
his mom ruined him by not swallowing
Man this article is straight hate…gLoW Up
Whoever wrote this article need to jump off drake’s nutsack .. artists put different versions of songs in clean albums most of the time to boost sales .. 2Pac did it all the time .. Eminem had a few in his clean albums too ..
Drake throws a shot its cool, Meek does it he’ sucks ??” Really.. tot this was a site_ but Fuck up bald mf straight up individual hater who knows nothin’ about hiphop_ drake is doin’ exactly the same tin Chris brown does so how the fuck he bodied a rapper .. same shit all this lame mf keep throwin’ _ be professional in ur platform this journalism not a grade 3 sch debate..
Hiphopdx done lost it!!! They straight clowns!!! I’m off this shit!!! Hiphopdx gone be extinct in less than two years…tyears…they done turned into a gossip site!!!smh #clickbait
Who Is the writer of this article. Must be paid by OVO bc he sound dumb