{"id":792833,"date":"2019-02-07T16:17:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T23:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=791687"},"modified":"2019-02-07T16:17:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T23:17:49","slug":"black-history-month-needed-meek-mill-drakes-going-bad-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/black-history-month-needed-meek-mill-drakes-going-bad-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Black History Month Needed Meek Mill, Drake\u2019s \u2018Going Bad\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/going-bad.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Every day of Black History Month 2019 has been a new level of hell. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-features\/blackface-is-just-one-part-of-the-problem-789635\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politicians are getting caught for wearing blackface<\/a> in their not-so-distant past. Liam Neeson is telling detailed stories of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/movie-news\/liam-neeson-racist-revenge-sparks-outrage-789700\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hunting black men for revenge<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/21-savage-is-being-held-in-one-of-the-worst-immigration-detention-centers-in-the-u-s-790472\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">21 Savage is detained<\/a> in one of the worst immigration detention centers in the country. The suffering is neverending (there is a metaphor here). Thankfully, the visual representation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/meek-mill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meek Mill<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/drake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Drake\u2019s<\/a> reconciliation is here to grant a momentary reprieve.<\/p>\n<p>The music video for \u201cGoing Bad\u201d is peak bromance. The Kid Art-directed visual features Meek and Drake doing opulent black man stuff (crashing cars, writing in notepads, walking in slow motion). It\u2019s ridiculous and epic and in certain moments a tad sweet. Mill and Graham\u2019s relationship seemed forever tarnished by their 2015 beef, but since the Philadelphia rapper\u2019s release from prison, the two have been on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/watch-drake-and-meek-mill-squash-beef-at-boston-concert-721613\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">solid ground<\/a>. In a November interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2018\/11\/meek-mill-on-drake-nicki-minaj-and-cardi-b.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><em>Vulture<\/em><\/a>, Meek described how the two eventually evolved from their highly publicized beef.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it took both of us going through some ups and downs, me in my career. It made me stronger,\u201d Meek explained. \u201cI\u2019m moving off love right now, so it was only proper to link with someone I actually did business with before and called my friend before\u2026What we did was genuine. We didn\u2019t just do it for the love of the people \u2018cause we could\u2019ve been done that. We waited until we were ready and did that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/meek-mill-drake-going-bad-791687\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day of Black History Month 2019 has been a new level of hell. Politicians are getting caught for wearing blackface in their not-so-distant past. Liam Neeson is telling detailed stories of hunting black men for revenge. 21 Savage is detained in one of the worst immigration detention centers in the country. The suffering is [&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-792833","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 20:25:22","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\/792833","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=792833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}