{"id":803947,"date":"2020-02-07T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T16:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=949356"},"modified":"2020-02-07T09:00:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T16:00:22","slug":"meek-mill-justin-timberlake-hit-a-motivational-note-with-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/meek-mill-justin-timberlake-hit-a-motivational-note-with-believe\/","title":{"rendered":"Meek Mill, Justin Timberlake Hit a Motivational Note With \u2018Believe\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Meek-Mill-2-Photo-Credit-20K.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/meek-mill\">Meek Mill<\/a> has recruited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/justin-timberlake\/\">Justin Timberlake<\/a> for his new song, \u201cBelieve.\u201d The uplifting anthem soundtracks the story of a father and daughter whose relationship is affected by the latter\u2019s time spent in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Meek references his own prison time in his verses: \u201cIn a school of failure, we present, perfect attendance\/Welfare, baby, we workin\u2019 with what they give us\/Made me some commas, judge still gave me a sentence\/No period, city girls don\u2019t get scared.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a special track and I\u2019m grateful I had the opportunity to collaborate with Justin on it,\u201d Meek said in a statement. \u201cWe really wanted to send a motivational message that would inspire people to take it to the next level and pursue their dreams. That turnt shit coming soon as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMeek is at the top of his game right now,\u201d Timberlake said. \u201cThe process of creating with him in the studio to help him put what he experienced to music was incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBelieve\u201d follows <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/meek-mill\/\" id=\"auto-tag_meek-mill\" data-tag=\"meek-mill\">Meek Mill<\/a> and Roddy Ricch\u2019s tribute to Nipsey Hussle, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/meek-mill-roddy-ricch-letter-to-nipsey-943759\/\">\u201cLetter to Nipsey,\u201d<\/a> which the pair debuted earlier this year during a Nipsey Hussle tribute medley at the Grammy Awards alongside John Legend, DJ Khaled, Kirk Franklin and YG.<\/p>\n<p>All proceeds from \u201cLetter to Nipsey\u201d will go to the deceased rapper\u2019s family. Meek Mill will also star in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/movie-news\/meek-mill-charm-city-kings-trailer-938579\/\"><em>Charm City Kings<\/em><\/a>, the new movie directed by Angel Manuel Soto and co-written by&nbsp;<em>Moonlight<\/em> director Barry Jenkins. The film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival and will open in theaters this April.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Timberlake released his latest album&nbsp;<em>Man of the Woods<\/em> in 2018. He reprises his role as Branch, co-starring alongside Anna Kendrick, in the upcoming <em>Trolls<\/em> movie,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/justin-timberlake-anna-kendrick-trolls-world-tour-trailer-912412\/\"><em>Trolls World Tour<\/em><\/a>, out April 17th.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/meek-mill-justin-timberlake-believe-949356\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meek Mill has recruited Justin Timberlake for his new song, \u201cBelieve.\u201d The uplifting anthem soundtracks the story of a father and daughter whose relationship is affected by the latter\u2019s time spent in prison. Meek references his own prison time in his verses: \u201cIn a school of failure, we present, perfect attendance\/Welfare, baby, we workin\u2019 with [&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-803947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-23 09:17:17","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\/803947","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=803947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}