![]() ![]() That same position he’s fought for in every battle, every beef and every obstacle that stood in his way as a young man from North Philly has finally been obtained. ![]() The beat drops and Meek’s voice drastically shifts with urgency. “ Hold up, wait a minute/ Y’all thought I was finished?” The duality of the song lingers in that singular moment when that MMG tag hits. “I’m gettin’ cream, never let them hoes get in between/ Of what we started, lil’ n***a but I’m lion-hearted/ They love me when I was stuck and they hated when I departed,” he continues with ease. Watching all of the work he’s put in pay off while relationships change as the money rolls in. The paranoia that lingers from experiences in the streets. The circumstances of his environment that, even at this point in his career, was relevant to how he had to live. It’s reflective an internal dialogue Meek’s having with the rest of the world that parallels to both the external and internal demons he’s had to fight over the course of his life. “I used to pray for times to rhyme like this/ So I had to grind like that to shine like this,” he raps as he opens up. Meek’s conversational delivery over a celestial piano progression feels like he’s delivering a soliloquy. Fans of Meek who’ve followed his career since YouTube freestyles reckoned this moment would come but the way he carried himself in his arrival has been immortalized in hip-hop. “Dreams & Nightmares Intro” remains one of the most impactful rap songs of the past decade. That was his purpose, ultimately, and he succeeded in ways that many others wouldn’t be able to. Meek was barring out with his class of peers on Dreamchasers 2 like Big Sean, Drake, and Kendrick. Rappers, who like Meek, began their careers proving their skillset on the block. He became MMG’s flagship artist and the rappers that he had to compete with are who now seem like the last of a dying breed - commercially acclaimed rappers who, artistically, came from a lineage of the LOX, DMX, Dipset, Jay-Z’s, Nas’, etc. ![]() The song opens up with a snippet of Mike Tyson’s interview after his fight with Lou Savarese where he declares he’s the “most brutal and most vicious and most ruthless champion there’s ever been.” Meek made it this far with all odds stacked against him but his opponents weren’t limited streets foes. Meek carries that same ferocity, though it was directed elsewhere. The haunting choral chants that jumped through the beat. “I had a dream like Martin Luther King” might be one of the most overused bars in hip-hop, though in retrospect it seems like it foreshadowed the meme-worthy conspiracies theorizing Meek Mill and Martin Luther King Jr.’s family connection.Įven on the second Dreamchasers, though, that intro was so important to set the tone for the tape which would subsequently set the tone for his major-label debut. There are moments where it’s near prophetic as he plants the seeds for accomplishments that he’d later manifest in his career. It’s been used over the years in various forms of media but Meek’s slow-burning flow roars through the operatic samples and grandiose drums. On the first Dreamchasers tape, DJ Drama declares Meek Mill’s entrance with the same sample of “O Fortuna” The Undertaker used at Wrestlemania XX. Both projects begin with ferocious intros. A title that essentially captured his M.O. The first two Dreamchasers set the tone for Meek’s career. ![]()
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