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Meek Mill documentary, Free Meek, debuting on Amazon this year
Since Meek Mill’s release from prison in April last year, the Philly rapper has not only become a face for prison reform, but he’s gone on to enjoy great successes in the rap game – notably with the release of Championships. The next chapter in Meek’s story is now on its way, with the release of a brand-new docuseries chronicling his life and the criminal system, titled Free Meek.
With Jay Z on board as Executive Producer, the six-part series will debut on the Amazon Prime platform later this year, giving fans and viewers ‘unprecedented access to the star’s life, career and criminal justice odyssey, while demonstrating the negative effects long tail probation is having on urban communities of colour’.
Free Meek has been in the works since Meek Mill’s release, a sentence that initially had him facing two to four years for probation violation. Meek served five months of jail time, before the Philadelphia Supreme Court granted him bail.
Unreleased Mac Miller music surfaces at Madlib show
During a Madlib DJ set in San Diego over the weekend, fans were treated to a special preview of a collaboration the acclaimed producer had finished up with the late Mac Miller. The track, also featuring Thundercat, has spurred the rumours of the Mac Miller x Madlib album, supposedly called Maclib, that have been floating around.
Like new Jay Electronica music, this album could turn into something of hip hop mythology, should it ever be released. During the same DJ set, Madlib also threw down an unreleased tune with Freddie Gibbs, indicating that there may be a whole treasure trove of collaborations stashed away, maybe in line for release. Maybe not.
Juice WRLD nabs his first #1 album with Death Race For Love
If you’re a triple j listener, you will have heard a lot of this album over the last week, with Juice WRLD’s Death Race For Love record landing the coveted Feature Album spot. Released on March 8, the album has been racking up the numbers in the US too, finally giving the rapper his first #1 album.
According to Billboard, Death Race For Love scored an impressive 43,000 pure album sales of his 165,000 overall album units – considering how much streaming has become a giant of the music industry, for a hip hop album to garner that many pure album sales, props are due. Death Race For Love holds the record for the largest streaming week and biggest week overall for any hip hop or R&B album in 2019, taking the title from Meek Mill’s Championships release back in December.
