{"id":792423,"date":"2019-01-27T08:34:06","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T15:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=785064"},"modified":"2019-01-27T08:34:06","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T15:34:06","slug":"watch-meek-mill-deliver-championships-songs-in-snl-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/watch-meek-mill-deliver-championships-songs-in-snl-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Meek Mill Deliver \u2018Championships\u2019 Songs in \u2018SNL\u2019 Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-6.54.58-AM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Since his release from prison in April, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/meek-mill\/\">Meek Mill<\/a> has been reintroducing himself to the public eye. On this week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv\/tv-recaps\/james-mcavoy-snl-recap-785061\/\">James McAvoy-hosted episode<\/a>, he made his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/saturday-night-live\/\"><em>Saturday Night Live<\/em><\/a> debut with a medley of songs from his 2018 album\u00a0<em>Championships<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Philadelphia rapper kicked off his appearance with a mesmerizing performance of the Drake-featured hit \u201cGoing Bad\u201d alongside a duo of dancers in catsuits. He was then joined onstage by Fabolous, who assists on the track for \u201cUptown Vibes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meek Mill returned to the <em>SNL<\/em> stage later in the episode for the downtempo \u201cChampionships,\u201d which is riddled with the rapper\u2019s battle with adversity with the criminal justice system.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JmWzc1iyr2Q?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Meek Mill\u2019s\u00a0<em>SNL<\/em>\u00a0debut might have come earlier if not for his ongoing legal battles. In 2017, the rapper was arrested for a probation violation and sentenced to 2-to-4 years in prison, but he was released in April 2018 with a court order because of inconsistencies in the testimony that first got him incarcerated at 19-years-old.<\/p>\n<p>The hip hop icon is continuing his efforts in criminal justice reform, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/jay-z-meek-mill-reform-alliance-criminal-justice-783228\/\">launching the Reform Alliance on January 23rd with Jay-Z<\/a>: \u00a0a new initiative that aims to transform the \u201cillogical laws that make no sense.\u201d With $50 million contributions from Patriots owner Robert Kraft and 76ers owner Michael Rubin, the Reform Alliance \u201caims to reduce the number of people affected by parole and probation law by 1 million over the next five years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/meek-mill-snl-785064\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since his release from prison in April, Meek Mill has been reintroducing himself to the public eye. On this week\u2019s James McAvoy-hosted episode, he made his Saturday Night Live debut with a medley of songs from his 2018 album\u00a0Championships. The Philadelphia rapper kicked off his appearance with a mesmerizing performance of the Drake-featured hit \u201cGoing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-792423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 00:22:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}