Meek Mill Release a new video for his single “Intro”
With Meek Mill‘s Championships currently sitting at number one on US Billboard Chart, the Philly rapper delivers a well deserved victory lap with a video for its ‘Intro’.
Meek Mill has dropped his celebratory new video for “Intro,” the opening track off the rapper’s new album and first post-prison LP Championships. In the video, Meek Mill and his crew gather in an empty office building to revel the rapper’s freedom and reflect on what they overcame to be there, which is showcased via quick flashes of crime scenes and bullet shell casings.
The video is directed by Kid Art, and Cartier Brown and Jonathan Olson are credited as executive producer and producer, respectively. Meek previously released a video for fellow CHAMPIONSHIPS cut “Uptown Vibes” featuring Fabolous and Anuel AA.
As Dallas Martin, Atlantic’s senior VP of A&R, explained in an extensive interview with Complex last week, the new Meek album was a “down to the wire” affair. “The main thing with him when he got out, I wanted him to be able to link with all the biggest producers in the game,” Martin told Eric Diep. “We went down to Atlanta and for like two weeks I just had all the big producers come through and sit with him, play beats, and just let him just rock out.”
As for the name, Martin said it’s again the result of a feeling both he and Meek had during the sessions. It’s also, of course, a nod to a previous Meek title. “You know everything we went through from the past three years,” Martin said. “Just the ups and downs. So, we felt like he was in a great space. I felt like he got a second chance at life, and we really felt like we was in championship mode.”
Well known for his epic introductions, this one samples Phil Collins‘ legendary ‘In The Air Tonight’, with Meek framing what he sets out to achieve across his fourth studio album.
Meek Mill’s Championships arrived on November 30th. Since then, the rapper has detailed a 16-city U.S. tour scheduled to begin in February 2019; the jaunt marks Meek Mill’s first since his release from prison earlier this year.
“Yeah / We in the championship / We was down 3-1 / Yeah (I can feel it coming in the air tonight) / Feel it / Champions of the United States (Oh lord) (And I’ve been waiting for this moment for all my life) / Yeah”
Championships features guest appearances by former foe Drake, Cardi B, Kodak Black, Ella Mai, Future, 21 Savage and, on the album highlight “What’s Free,” Jay-Z and Rick Ross; Meek Mill later discussed Jay-Z’s headline-generating lyric from that track on CNN. The Philadelphia rapper also previously shared the video for Championships‘ “Dangerous” featuring Jeremih and PnB Rock.
The raw power of Meek Mill’s Phil Collins-assisted “Intro” comes to life in the CHAMPIONSHIPS opener’s new video.
Meek Mill has dropped his celebratory new video for “Intro,” the opening track off the rapper’s new album and first post-prison LP Championships. In the video, Meek Mill and his crew gather in an empty office building to revel the rapper’s freedom and reflect on what they overcame to be there, which is showcased via quick flashes of crime scenes and bullet shell casings.
