As a young person growing up in any major U.S. inner city, you are
exposed to nightmares of the inner city. There are choices you
can make in your life that can impact your future, good or bad. A
person that can speak heavily on this is Philadelphia artist
Meek Mill. From being incarcerated in 2008 on a gun charge, to
making the choice to fully chasing his dreams and dropping
his debut album, Dreams and Nightmares on a major label,
which just happen to be Rick Ross's Maybach Music Group.
With a MMG/Rick Ross backed album, you expect cinematic hard
hitting beats, thought provoking verses and Meek Mill does exactly
just that in debut. Those early choices in life that Meek made in life
are reflected throughout his music. On his previous mixtape Dreamchasers
Meek did a track called "Tony Story", where he demonstrates his
story telling abilities, he depicts the interactions between Ty, Tony,
and Pauly. On Dreams and Nightmares he continues with the story,
"Tony Story Pt.2", from the point of view of Tony's younger brother
going after Pauly for revenge of Tony. One of the more intricate
musical ballad you find on this album is "Maybach Curtains"
with appearances from hiphop legend Nas, soulful vocalist John Legend,
and MMG mogul Rick Ross, if you ever heard any of Meek Mill previous
mixtapes then this album is the next evolution in this young artist career.
Over all i would say this a good debut album, its classic Meek Mill fueled
with a newer style of Meek Mill, which should help fuse new and old fans.
Dreams & Nightmares does everything a debut should do. It introduce
you a fan to an artist, and explains exactly who they are especially in songs
like "Traumatized". Again good album and definitely worth the purchase.
#OCG
Edited By: Donzel "Ziggy" Walton & Anthony Williams
