Dreams Worth More Than Money
| Meek Mill
Dreams Worth More Than Money
Dreams Worth More Than Money is the second studio album by American rapper Meek Mill. It was released on June 29, 2015, by Maybach Music Group and Atlantic Records. It was initially scheduled for release on September 9, 2014, however, it has been delayed few times due to Meek Mill's revoking of his probation on July 11, 2014, thus sentencing him to jail for 3 to 6 months. The album made its entry at number one on the US Billboard 200; and sold 246,000 album-equivalent units in its first week, with 215,000 coming from traditional album sales, marking as Meek's first number-one album on the chart. Due to the change in the tracking week by Nielsen Music SoundScan, its first week sales were counted towards its second week on the charts.At the 2016's Billboard Music Awards, the album won an award for Top Rap Album.-Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
Dreams Worth Than More Money takes a few more risks than Meek Mill's debut. With high-profile guest spots from Future, Drake, Nicki Minaj, and others, it has more breathing room and clears space for Meek Mill's unrelenting intensity. It also reinforces the impression that a brief blast is the best way to experience Meek.
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COS
With DWMTM, he shows he’s made obvious strides as a creative since Dreams and Nightmares dropped three years ago. He applies his rabid bark to a wide, kinetic range of beats, and his verses indicate that he’s never had so much at stake on a personal level. There’s more urgency in both his bravado and his reflection. Thanks to that bravado, the album can be described in one word: exciting.
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Crack Magazine
Meek is an incredible rapper, and he’s got enough energy to potentially shake up the game. It’s good to have him back, but let’s hope that an outpour of looser mixtape material allows him to flaunt his raw appeal in the forthcoming months.
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Rolling Stone
Meek Mill is one of hip-hop's most powerful brag machines, hollering blunt-force boasts with desperate energy and uncut brio. His second LP begins with the epic "Lord Knows," where he furiously rhymes about his underdog climb to the three-Rating: 3/5
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Billboard
Meek Mill's long-delayed Dreams Worth More Than Money may be just the Philadelphia rapper's second official full-length but it feels like much more.
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COOG Radio
Dreams Worth More Than Money will be a pleasant surprise for Meek Mill’s fans and listeners. Although he has hits, the mix of street styles and mainstream artists provides great replay value and keeps listeners on their toes. The careful beat selection from executive producer Rick Ross, combined with Meek Mill’s clever punchlines, certainly sets this album to be a “Classic” in the making.
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DJ Booth
This album could prove to be the gospel that converted me into a Meek believer, or just another Meek Mill album I play mostly for the intro. Time will tell.
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Metacritic
The second full-length studio release for the Philadelphia rapper features guest appearances from Chris Brown, Jeremih, Nicki Minaj, Rick Ross, and The Weekend.
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Hiphop DX
Dreams Worth More Than Money begins with Hip Hop’s most audacious sample of the year in Mozart’s Requiem in D. It then reappears after Meek’s voice blares in through silence as though come from behind a thick red and golden curtain. There’s an arrogance here, acceptable but pretentious, that personifies the Maybach Music Group. They are obsessed with antiquity, with lavishness, with kingliness. And, at times on this fourteen-track album, reveling in Meek Mill’s joy is exciting.
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Genius
A step back from Meek Mill’s debut album “Dreams & Nightmares”, I am still not overly upset because I did get everything I want from Meek. I got good lyricist Meek on tracks like “The Trillest” and “Cold Hearted”, I got hype Meek on tracks like “Lord Knows”, “Check”, and “Been That”, and then I got some great features from Drake and The Weeknd on “R.I.C.O.” and “Pullin' Up”, respectively. Nobody will accuse this album of being great, but I certainly really enjoyed it on the whole.
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Hot New Hiphop
Meek Mill's new album sounds like the Apocalypse. Not the actual, devastating end-of-days, but the cinematic equivalent we’ve come to expect from our summer blockbusters: a free-wheeling, no-stakes madhouse of destruction complete with swelling strings, chanting choirs and Earth-shaking war drumbeats that could bring a tear to Clint Mansell’s eye.
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Vice
The big make-or-break job that Dreams Worth More Than Money is charged with is to be the event album it feels like Meek Mill should have already had by now. The Billboard numbers for his official releases have never quite caught up with the excitement generated among fans and peers by his mixtapes and club hits. Meek Mill’s discography is packed with sharp contrasts between the comforts of hard earned wealth and the hunger and struggle of his life before Rick Ross’s Maybach Music Group brought him rap stardom.
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The Boombox
Featuring a star-studded lineup of guest talent and producers, Dreams Worth More Than Money looks like a blockbuster release on paper. Being that his classic "Intro" from Dreams and Nightmares was the album's most memorable moment, the opener on Dreams Worth More Than Money had to live up to its predecessor.
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Pop Matters
Dreams Worth More Than Money is pretty much everything you’d want from a mainstream Meek release. Savvy potential hits are overshadowed by a bunch of tracks with chips on their shoulders, made for a guy who sounds like he leaves blood on the mic.
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Rate Your Music
This is a well produced album and I'm happy for anyone that kept it in their truck or Mazda for months on repeat.
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All Music
Dreams Worth More Than Money swaggers with the utmost confidence, ferociously declaring its reckless supremacy during the Rick Ross feature "Been That" ("Just me and Junior in the Brinks truck/Doing all this shit we can think of").
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Vibe
With this album, a more retrospective Meek reminisces on the past, adding his signature cocky bravado. His depth, hunger, and imagery are the crown jewels of his sophomore album as he stays the course of his usual themes like growing up poor, how money is the root of all evil, violence in the inner city, and flaunting his riches. Meek even shows specks of guilt at times for his flashy ways.
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Zumic
As soon as you tap the play button for a Meek song, you should expect to hear all about his rags-to-riches story, a lot of boasting and bragging, but also some heartfelt, inspiring lyrics.
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Complex
Meek's strength has always been depth, not breadth, a focus on the task before him rather than envisioning some grander future. Perhaps he's never had the choice; the album's cover art, which connects a stack of money to his father's funeral program, suggests his is a personal art, one that explores the trap between present and past. That a bold vision for the future can only be fantasy.
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Rhyme Junkie
The production throughout the album is solid and at times even feels beyond dope. The beat Bangladesh made for “Classic”, with its catchy piano loop and distorted bass, only feels less than stellar due to the odd inclusion of Swizz Beatz and Jeremih on the record. Boi-1da, Vinlyz, and OZ all lend quality tracks to the album. Most of them are what you would expect, but again, if proving expectations wrong is what you want of this album you’re in for a rough listen.
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HTF Magazine
The album has zero cohesiveness with each track feeling held over from another project and his energy depends on the feature. Meek’s at his best when he’s full energy just rapping unfiltered not held back by bridges/choruses and forced guests. This album has more than enough features to take Meek’s career to the next level and hopefully he’ll deliver a project that has more of him next time round.
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STGA
DWMTM is bipolar in content with tracks containing negative messages about wealth and others flaunting all the perks associated with fortune. The emphasis on money being the root of all evil moves DWMTM towards an interesting direction. It’s not often that a rapper is so openly remorse full throughout an entire album. There’s a good deal of sadness in Williams tone but an equal amount of hope, ambition, and honesty that prevents the album from being a sob story. With several outstanding tracks, candid messages and banging features, Meek Mill not only establishes himself as a rapper but also as a flawed human being, reminding listeners that rappers are people too.
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All Hiphop
Overall despite some pointless references to the money Meek Mill gets and champagne cases he can now by, this album showed his growth out of the streets and out of the prison system. He wasn't as boastful or cocky as he was in his first album. Touching on the subjects of family, the nights spent in jail/streets and his new exclusive relationship show the maturity in Meek Mill. Even giving the fans more lessons about living life on this one instead of rapping about taking lives.
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The Spokesman
his project, which was delayed for the better part of a year due to Meek’s brief stint in jail for probation violation, shows off his classic tracks with slightly less yelling and more actual rapping, due to some coaching by Jay-Z, and much more impressive instrumentals than fans have been used to. For better or worse, Meek stays true to his style of making music to bump to rather than bringing depth to his lyrics or messages.
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Ratings Game Music
This is a very good rap album! Unfortunately, it came out in the midst of other great rap albums, and may not have been all the way appreciated. Still til’ this day, I bump it when I’m at the gym, cleaning my house, and riding in my car. I truly recommend it.
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Wicked Childd
Meek Mill has come through with a surprising sophomore album that shows Meek taking a few more chances while still playing it relatively safe. Meek was able to stay at the forefront of the album, even with song big name features like Drake, Nicki Minaj, Chris Brown and Diddy. Meek Mill has definitely cemented himself as one of the biggest names in Hip Hop with this release; let’s hope this whole beef with Drake doesn’t hurt that in any way.
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XXL Magazine
All the way through, Dreams Worth More Than Money feels fresh and, more importantly, refreshing. There are few moments that miss the mark; instead, Meek Mill takes the time and the effort to expand his sound and try new things, telling his story by lifting the veil on his vulnerabilities and sounding genuinely excited about his life at the moment. There have been ups and downs along the way, particularly in the past 12 months, but life is good for Meek Mill right now. Dreams Worth More Than Money proves it.
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Exclaim
Dreams Worth More Than Money overflows with sonic effervescence, drawing you into the snake pit that is the mainstream hip-hop industry, with all the opulent trappings therein. Tight production support ingenious raps that continue to push the envelope of the street anthem narrative, and make you want to go earn shit like Meek.
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The Daily Orange
The beat selection on this album includes a range of modern hip-hop styles with production from Boi-1da, Metro Boomin, Bangladesh and others. Multiple features are scattered through the album to give the listener some breathing room from Meek’s sometimes tiring flow. There aren’t many weak bars on this album. Meek Mill flows like someone in a cypher winning the audience with every line. His confidence and energy are intense, and when he snaps, it’s like hearing a dragon roar. This is why Meek was deemed worthy. When he’s at his very best it feels like he could start a riot. When he’s not, his breakneck pace can be tiring.
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Brain of BMW
The album hits the ground running with “Lord Knows” which will likely be a fan favorite off the album, and well deserved. The Swizz Beatz and Jeremih assisted “Classic” is far from what the title insinuates. While Meek’s flow is fine, the hook is flight out terrible, and its easily one of the weaker beats from Bangladesh.
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The Daily Beast
The Philly rapper was given the prize for his underwhelming LP Dreams Worth More Than Money (you probably know it as the album that caused trigger fingers to turn to Twitter fingers, with Meek getting so riled up over Drake not promoting their single “R.I.C.O.” via social media that he accused him of hiring a ghostwriter on the track.)
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Comm Media
This album is not a far cry from everything else Meek Mill has released. If you are or have ever been a fan of Meek Mill, this will satisfy your want for new music. Even for myself, someone who has not always loved the former battle rapper. It is a good album that deserves a listen or two.
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Vocal
Wins & Losses is filled with inspiring lyrics and raw emotions. Whether it's feeling a weight on your chest with "Heavy Heart," or sad over the loss of "fallen soldiers" in "We Ball," or just feeling good with "Whatever You Need" — this album is definitely a rollercoaster.
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Karen Civil
The album is set to feature some heavyweights in Drake, Swizz Beatz, Future, Nicki Minaj, Rick Ross and more. Check out the full tracklist and announcement tweets below then get ready because it is officially Meek Season.
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Fuse
The sophomore album has features from every hip hop artist you want features from right now—including Meek's beloved Nicki Minaj. Drake calls himself the king of pop on "R.I.C.O."
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Market Watch
It reminds you why you loved the guy in the first place: He accomplishes more with the sound of his rapping than other rappers do with entire albums.
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Hypebeast
Featuring a string of hot collaborators, Meek Mill’s new album sees songs with Drake, P. Diddy, Rick Ross, Future, Nicki Minaj, Big Sean and many more. Definitely in the running to be another acclaimed album this year.
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RWD
Meek Mill may have soiled the longevity of his second album Dreams Worth More Than Money – which went to number one in the US when it dropped in the Summer of 2015 – but it remains a solid listen.
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The Music
Lord Knows opens the album using the power of Mozart's Lacrimosa movement from his Requiem In D, in an attempt to give the album a much more personal tone that it actually lacks for the rest of the album. Standout track Pullin' Up (featuring The Weeknd) shows why both these artists do what they do. If this album was released two years ago it would've been a game changer, but you can't help but feel Meek Mill is a step behind the rest.
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Sway's Universe
It’s been a damn good year for Meek Mill and it just got even better following the release of his sophomore album Dreams Worth More Than Money. The bar is high for the Philly emcee following the success of his critically acclaimed debut Dreams and Nightmares, but it’s a challenge he’s more than equipped to handle.
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The Source
Meek Mill laces another freestyle under the same name as his upcoming album, “Dreams Worth More Than Money.”
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Atlantic Records
Meek Mill's Dreams Worth More Than Money dominated the charts its first week, hitting #1 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums, Top Rap Albums, and Top Hip-Hop/R&B Albums charts!
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