References to Drake are gratefully absent on DC4, but the Toronto pop starвЂ™s influence is nonetheless felt, if only in opposition: Recent Drake nemeses Tory Lanez and Pusha T pop in for a feature, while Quavo, whose Migos were Drake-jacked for their вЂњVersaceвЂќ a couple years back, shows up as well. HeвЂ™s not just declaring that heвЂ™s still on top, but displaying how he rose up to begin with. Like DC4 as a whole, itвЂ™s a renewed demonstration of MeekвЂ™s considerable (and often considerably overlooked) talents. Despite running for four and a half minutes without any hook, вЂњTony Story 3вЂќ is never less than engrossing. ItвЂ™s no surprise that he could empathize so strongly, and at such length. Ancillary beefs with Beanie Sigel and the Game have sucked up air in recent weeks. Since exposing DrakeвЂ™s use of ghostwriters and losing the initial rounds of the subsequent rap beef, the Philly rapper has had to endure levels of scorn that would send most people reeling. If PaulieвЂ™s paranoid about surveillance and his affiliates are being questioned by the police, Meek, for the last year and four months, has been under relentless scrutiny of a somewhat different, but no less pressing, type. The upper-echelon dealer/enforcer and the A-list street rapper/celebrity share a sense of stress from heightened attention so intense that it blurs the distinction between them. The shift in narration from third-person to first-person in the last line is startling, but on closer examination it seems more than sensible, and not just because MeekвЂ™s delivery depends on taking a lot of deep breaths. His freedom hinges on her death, but even so his emotions are getting the better of him: вЂњShe on the way, he feel a way, this was one of his whores / And since he been on the run, he been fucking them more вЂ¦ / Thinking вЂbout her, if she come, open the door / Take a deep breath, I know what IвЂ™m doing.вЂќ Kee, heвЂ™s deduced, has been telling the police about his drug- and gun-related crimes, and Paulie plans to murder her to cover his tracks. His driverвЂ™s seat is all the way reclined heвЂ™s lurking while waiting for one of his kept women to arrive at her residence.

Halfway through вЂњTony Story 3,вЂќ the mixtapeвЂ™s penultimate track, Paulie, the narrativeвЂ™s protagonist, finds himself alone in a parked car in the darkest hours of the morning. ThereвЂ™s a moment late on Meek MillвЂ™s DC4В that seems at once incidental and revealing.

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