Meek Mill’s Lollapalooza performance was a joyous, cathartic and uneven performance that showed exactly what he’s come to represent today. Our review
played like a pro-wrestler’s walk-on music. When the Philadelphia rapper finally emerged to the ghostly voice singing, “I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord / And I’ve been waiting for this moment for all my life,” his message was clear.
For the bulk of his performance, Meek Mill leaned on help. To energize the crowd, he’d play Pusha T’s verse on Chief Keef’s “I Don’t Like,” 2014’s “Faneto” of Lil Durk’s semi-hit “This Ain’t What You Want” from 2013. The choices lacked an awareness that those are not the only bangers made in the Midwest over the last half-decade., Mill also brought out a new Chicago star, Calboy, to perform their collaboration “Chariot.
Mill’s performance only got more strange the moment his DJ broke out into a melody of other people’s songs ranging from DaBaby’s “Suge” to Travis Scott and Drake’s “Sicko Mode.” Predictably, the basic crowd launched into the opening refrain of thehit to such an extent it seemed like the loudest moment of the night. If Mill’s recent career is devoid of solo hits , it did not seem to phase him. As he ran out into the crowd, that signature grin just kept getting wider as he basked at the moment.
At his best, Meek is a beacon of inspiration. Many of his bar-heavy songs fail to translate to a live setting of Lollapalooza’s magnitude, but when a group sings, “They wanna see me fall,” from “1942 Flows” back at Mill it feels earned in a way that’s hard to replicate. Even the Ella Mai-featuring “24/7” got an outsized response; Mill still knows his way around an R&B hit.
By the time “Dreams and Nightmares,” his seve-year-old introduction, closed out the show, it resembled a victory lap. That song still defines his career, an unimpeachable summation of the duality facing the Philadelphia rapper. A couple of minutes earlier, Mill tried to convince the crowd that they were millionaires in the making and all their dreams were moments from becoming a reality.
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