Meek Mill was met with controversy on Wednesday (February 17) after a snippet of an unreleased song in which he references late NBA legend Kobe Bryant’s death surfaced online. The untitled track — known as “Don’t Worry (RIP Kobe)” on Genius’ website — is a collaboration with Lil Baby, which finds Meek bringing up Bryant passing away in a helicopter crash.
“This bitch I’m fuckin’ always tell me that she love me but she ain’t ever showed me,” Meek raps in his verse. “Yeah, and if I ever lack, I’m goin’ out with my chopper, it be another Kobe/Shit, I could tell that they ain’t never know me/’Cause if they knew me they would’ve never showed me.”
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Unsurprisingly, Hip Hop and NBA fans alike took to Twitter to blast the Philadelphia-bred rapper for his choice of words.
One Twitter user wrote, “He made a reference about Kobe’s death in the helicopter, meek is a fucking weirdo ass clown for that,” while another said, “Meek Mill been a clown but too say that line about Kobe & a choppa…… ON BLACK HISTORY MONTH???”
DJ Sourmilk of Power 106’s L.A. Leakers wrote, “I do agree that people are pussies these days and wanna cancel everything, but that Kobe line could’ve been swapped out.”
Shortly after becoming a Twitter trending topic, Meek sent out a couple of tweets on Thursday morning (February 18) defending himself.
“somebody promo a narrative and y’all follow it,” he wrote. “y’all internet antics cannot stop me ….shit like zombie land or something! Lol. They paying to influence y’all now … its almost like mind control ‘wake up.’
Elsewhere in the snippet, Baby mentions Bryant in a line about wanting to name his kids after the Los Angeles Lakers great and his daughter Gianna Bryant, who also died in the fatal January 2020 accident.
“I made a promise before God, that want’ll never hold me,” he raps. “I damn near wanna have a son, so I can name him Kobe/Daughter Gigi, I done beat them odds, I wish lil’ one could see me/Tiger took the charge without a problem, there he ever need me.”
Take a look at more reactions to Meek’s lyrics below.
Meek Mill really might be the dumbest fucking rapper of all time. It’s like his elevator doesn’t go to the top floor. This guy is extra special ed.
Is that how RatNation told him to spin this one? Blame the internet instead of taking accountability?
One thing you can say about Meek Mill is, when he gets himself in a whole he’s always gonna dig it deeper and deeper for himself with social media!
I usually don’t even react to shit like this but Meek garbage for that line. It’s not even a good sequence. Its lazy and he did it for attention. Hard to defend him allllllll the damn time.
We really are the tone police today. Who cares. The double meaning makes sense so its a better bar than most in that way. Maybe it’s in poor taste, but ffs if we keep dogging people like this hiphop will have no edge to it… it will just be people making noises on the mic n shit…. oh wait…
The bar was low key fire tho. I’m sure some battle rapper would have used it sooner or later. It’s not to disrespect. Just word play. It happens.
Got himself in the news again … lame doggy this ain’t the way to do it STUPID
He can say whatever, nothing is off limits to me, but the line was trash so that is where my issue lies with his rhyme
Where was the backlash when Redman said he’s gone through more trees than Sonny? (New heads, look it up)
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Because Sonny Bono been dead for like 30 years and no one in the hip hop community knows who that is, especially nowadays.
Yall sensitive
Loaded lux said something similar years ago in a battle rap. He said something like ” A Learjet” and “Aaliyah jet”
Nobody cares about things they never heard.
Nah, no excuses. He’s entitled to say whatever he wants, that doesn’t mean he has to say it out his stupid mouth. That family is still mourning their losses. No passes for being ignorant and tone deaf.
Listen to “cold hearted” — Meek been dropping bars about Kobe.
If you have a problem with an artist referencing real life events in a song — in a non-disrespectful way — you don’t really love hip hop you just pretend to.