Meek Mill’s latest album ‘Expensive Pain’ just dropped, and the Philadelphia rapper recently spoke to Zane Lowe about the project for his ‘New Music Daily’ show on Apple Music 1. While talking to Lowe, Meek Mill was candid about the process for the album, not getting the same respect as his peers on the 2011 XXL Freshman cover, and the “disadvantage” he had during his short-lived beef Drake.
Meek talked about having a lot to prove with his latest project, saying, “…I don't feel like I get the credit that I deserve far as the artists. I come from the 2012 era. If you go check XXL cover, shout out to Vanessa, I'm on the cover. It's me, YG, it's Kendrick, it's Mac Miller, rest in peace, Fred the Godson. But all them guys, I respect them highly, and a lot of them guys last in the game, I'm one of them guys that's still here in 2021, I'm about to put on at a talented level, not a marketed level. I want to go straight to the fans."
From there, Meek was candid about another part of his career—his beef with Drake, noting he felt the odds were against him. Meek said, “2019, I think my slowest year, me and Drake was beefing. I was at a disadvantage.” He continued saying, "He was winning, in the eyes of the people. I still walked my way through that, went through prison, I had to go through something. Once I bounced back out, Championships. We had a pandemic, two years go by, few people fading away. We in 2021, I'm going to stand on Expensive Pain, I'm going to stand on my talent, and I'm going to remain confident and hope that people pay attention to what's going on because they got a long way to go. I'm trying to keep pushing."
