Updated 07/12/2023 at 3:42 p.m. ET:
Meek Mill is not the brightest person in the world. I don’t know him personally, but based on the responses to this tweet, it’s becoming very clear that he’s not the brightest light bulb on the shelf.
Just days after voicing his support for Tory Lanez, who was convicted of shooting Megan Thee Stallion, the Philadelphia rapper is trying to defend his idiotic statement.
If you don’t recall, during his headlining performance at Rolling Loud Portugal over the weekend, Meek performed his 2016, “Litty,” which featured the convicted Canadian artist.
After he finished his performance, he shouted, “That was fucking lit. Free Tory Lanez too, one time.”
To no surprise, Meek received a lot of pushback from hip-hop fans on social media, and rightly so.
I don’t know if Meek was paying attention, but Tory Lanez was convicted of shooting Megan Thee Stallion in the summer of 2020. The charges included assault with a semiautomatic firearm, discharging a firearm with gross negligence, and carrying a loaded unregistered firearm in a vehicle.
He’s facing a maximum of 22 years and eight months in prison. Not exactly a model citizen.
But just days after all the criticism he received, the Philly MC responded to all of it on the newly-launched social media app, Threads.
In one post he wrote, “I say free young thug … free lucci … free melly I don’t even know why y’all start dealing with us if yall gone try to smear us …. That’s why I stick to the trenches.
He continued, “Narrative control starts every Monday lol nobody gives a fuck what these people talking we making real life change out here every day! If I said free MUMIA a. I gonna be shamed! he’s allegedly guilty for killing a few male cop! I grew up to the black nation screaming that! Why do y’all think y’all can control us we got millions and real man influence not internet tricks!”
I don’t know what kind of defense that was but it was not good. I don’t care if fans say “Free Lucci” or “Free Melly,” they’re all idiots too.
Why would I publicly support someone who made another person’s life considerably worse? It doesn’t make sense to me.
This is something that often happens in hip-hop. When someone is convicted of doing something extremely bad, it’s always, “Free...”
It’s clear that Meek’s poor defense of Tory Lanez fell flat, but sometimes you have to learn to pick your battles, and supporting the convicted criminal that is Lanez should not be one of the wars you fight.