Meek Mill woke up to two of his songs floating around the internet this weekend, so he did the only thing a Philly rapper with options would do. He dropped them himself. On Sunday night he posted both “Philly Heathens” and “Am I Wrong” to his own YouTube channel, and the two records could not be having more different Mondays.
“Philly Heathens” is the one getting the love. Over a smooth beat, Meek goes in on the violence eating up his city, the parents burying their kids, the young ones walking the same road to nowhere. It has a real message on it, and the hook even lets him stretch his singing a little. Fans are already asking when it hits streaming.
“Am I Wrong” is where the day goes left. Meek took Nico and Vinz’s 2014 smash “Am I Wrong” and flipped it into a drill record, and the timeline is not letting him live. The beat sounds dated, the singing on the hook sounds off, and fans keep saying the same thing in different ways. You do not touch a song that beloved and walk away clean.
To be fair, the record sounds like it could be old, which would explain the sample choice and the production. But the comments are ruthless anyway. One fan joked Meek should have let that one stay leaked. Another said “Philly Heathens” on repeat is the only correct move today. The verdict is pretty much unanimous. One of these songs is a message. The other one is a meme.
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