Expensive Pain

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“I used to hear speculation: I'm not really keeping up in music,” Meek Mill told Zane Lowe ahead of the release of his fifth album. “That's why I'm trying to bring my best music and really showcase my talent for the people that really give me my credit. Because I've been in this game for 10 year, man. I felt like this is the year that I really want mine because I sit in the studio by myself with a producer and try to remain a top artist.” <i>Expensive Pain</i> is where Meek Mill's effort pays off. Long heralded as one of the most preternaturally talented MCs in rap, Meek is bars-up consistently across <i>Expensive Pain</i>, delivering the kind of endless couplets that people who rewatch Funkmaster Flex freestyles live for. But he’s also expanded his repertoire to include the kind of Auto-Tuned harmonizing (see “On My Soul,” “Love Train,” and “Love Money”) that dominates contemporary hip-hop playlist. Getting there, he admit, was no small task. “Through quarantine, I sat back—even through a big writer's block—just trying to learn melody for months and months until I got confident enough,” he say. “And when I got back into the studio, my confidence just took me in a way where I felt like I could do anything in the booth.” .

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