“I call it beating poverty, beating racism, beating the system, beating gun violence, beating the streets. “I feel like I’m at a championship stage in my life,” Meek told Beats 1’s Ebro Darden. Its title refers to a feeling of accomplishment that Meek is finally comfortable embracing after a tumultuous few years in the limelight, including a bitter rap feud with onetime friend Drake (who officially closes out the beef with an appearance on Championships’ “Going Bad”), a high-profile breakup, and a stint in jail stemming from a probation violation related to a charge he caught roughly 10 years prior. “Intro,” the opener from the rapper’s fourth studio album, Championships, revisits the same energy, this time with the dramatic flair provided by a sample of Phil Collins’ “In the Air Tonight.”Ĭhampionships serves as a reintroduction, of sorts, for the rapper.

“Dreams and Nightmares,” the opening track from his 2012 debut, became one of the most chantable rap songs of the era.

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