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All the Way Up (Remix)

By Meek Mill · Targeting Drake

All the Way Up (Remix) is a diss track by Meek Mill targeting Drake. The recording also credits Jadakiss and Fabolous. Meek Mill accused Drake of using a ghostwriter on ‘R.I.C.O.,’ prompting ‘Charged Up’ and ‘Back to Back.’ Meek's responses repeatedly return to authorship, Quentin Miller's reference track, Drake's Canadian distance from Philadelphia street claims and the public humiliation created by the speed and popularity of Drake's replies.

Released2016

Annotated4

ExplicitYes

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[Verse 1: Meek Mill]
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Catch you out in traffic, it's you and I
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Gold 41 in a suit and tie, nigga it's do or die
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Seen it now, if I lose it all like who would ride?
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But nigga I'm so up, if I tripped it's like suicide
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When the internet told me I'm crucified
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They was in them streets like, "Nigga you super live"
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I was on the block when you was a sneakerhead
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Nigga it's a check up in that box, ain't no shoe inside
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Nigga ain't no Nike, ain't no Yeezy, no Jordan V
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I came back like I'm Mike wearin' 45
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Ever seen 50 grand when it's all in 5s?
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But I'm shootin' like the Warriors' startin' 5, swish!
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Only rapper went gold without a verse from Hov
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Still got the rock with me, cookin' up at the stove
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And the Rollie all platinum, know I bust it at Joe
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Maybach in the hood, so them suckers can know
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I'm in the 6, man, 6 man, Dion Waiters
Multi-line diss block
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And I'm on my level now, I'm so beyond haters
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Bout to go and grab the Benz truck, see y'all later
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When I came through the block, you should've seen y'all faces
Block noteWalks into Drake's 6 Man identity and claims the city
TargetDrake
MeaningWhat it means: Meek places himself ‘in the 6,’ repeats Drake's ‘6 Man’ language and says he is beyond the haters watching his return. Why it was said: After Drake had turned Toronto and the number six into central brand markers, Meek's use of them is a territorial reply: he can enter Drake's symbolic home and rap over its vocabulary without conceding the feud.
WordplayDion Waiters supplies the basketball rhyme, while ‘the 6’ and ‘6 Man’ echo Drake's Toronto nickname and his song ‘6 Man.’
ContextMeek Mill accused Drake of using a ghostwriter on ‘R.I.C.O.,’ prompting ‘Charged Up’ and ‘Back to Back.’ Meek's responses repeatedly return to authorship, Quentin Miller's reference track, Drake's Canadian distance from Philadelphia street claims and the public humiliation created by the speed and popularity of Drake's replies.
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This is slaughter, new world order
Multi-line diss block
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I be goin' hard, Westbrook, 4th quarter
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This is hip-hop, you ain't write it, don't record it
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I don't know how they gettin' down 'cross the border
Block noteRestates the ghostwriting charge as a rule of hip-hop
TargetDrake
MeaningWhat it means: Meek says a performer should not record words he did not write and then questions how rappers operate ‘across the border,’ pointing from Philadelphia toward Canadian Drake. Why it was said: This was the core accusation that started their 2015 battle; phrasing it as a principle of the genre lets Meek argue that the dispute concerns authorship standards, not wounded feelings after Drake's hit responses.
ContextMeek Mill accused Drake of using a ghostwriter on ‘R.I.C.O.,’ prompting ‘Charged Up’ and ‘Back to Back.’ Meek's responses repeatedly return to authorship, Quentin Miller's reference track, Drake's Canadian distance from Philadelphia street claims and the public humiliation created by the speed and popularity of Drake's replies.
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I give 'em the dirty flow, Michigan and water
Multi-line diss block
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Sent them 10 thousand cases, I put in my order
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Call that poppin' bottles when my people can't afford it
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Mixin' D'usse with lemonade when I'm in Georgia
Block noteContrasts Drake's bottle image with community cost
TargetDrake
MeaningWhat it means: Meek says he can order ten thousand cases of liquor but calls conspicuous bottle-popping ugly when people around him cannot afford it. Why it was said: The criticism pushes against luxury as an automatic sign of victory and gives Meek a moral distinction from the polished celebration surrounding Drake's success: money matters less if the display is detached from the neighborhood.
ContextMeek Mill accused Drake of using a ghostwriter on ‘R.I.C.O.,’ prompting ‘Charged Up’ and ‘Back to Back.’ Meek's responses repeatedly return to authorship, Quentin Miller's reference track, Drake's Canadian distance from Philadelphia street claims and the public humiliation created by the speed and popularity of Drake's replies.
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Views from the projects, and nigga I'm the prospect
Multi-line diss block
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Talkin' loud, say I'm shootin' out with metal objects
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And that chick standin' right beside you, I done popped that
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Made me beat a fan up, I'm feelin' like I'm Artest, woo!
Block noteFlips Views and revives the romantic provocation
TargetDrake
MeaningWhat it means: ‘Views from the projects’ twists Drake's album title into Meek's street vantage point, then Meek claims sexual history with the woman beside his rival. Why it was said: The first phrase says Drake's blockbuster perspective does not own the word ‘views’; the second returns to the personal terrain of their feud, where Nicki Minaj and public relationship jokes had already been used to embarrass Meek.
Wordplay‘Views from the projects’ answers Drake's Views while relocating the camera from Toronto celebrity life to Meek's housing-project origin.
ContextMeek Mill accused Drake of using a ghostwriter on ‘R.I.C.O.,’ prompting ‘Charged Up’ and ‘Back to Back.’ Meek's responses repeatedly return to authorship, Quentin Miller's reference track, Drake's Canadian distance from Philadelphia street claims and the public humiliation created by the speed and popularity of Drake's replies.
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Gold mic from the billboards, 'bout to plug it up
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Tell Cruz put it in the booth so I can fuck it up
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Got the hood super lit, jumpin' like it's double dutch
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From the bottom like an uppercut, now I'm all the way up
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I'm all the way up
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You niggas all the way fucked
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Switched sides, now you stuck (Stay over there my g)
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Fuck them niggas though
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[Interlude: Fabolous]
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This is
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Edsclusive
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They don't wanna see you on top
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I just wanna see the streets up
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They don't wanna see you up
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That's it
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They gon' take shots when you all the way up
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[Verse 2: Fabolous]
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I guess they gotta aim up at you
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But don't you let these nobodies get their name up on you
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Keep the circle tight, never let 'em lame up the crew
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If she for everybody, don't you let her claim up on you
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Now listen, you gave up on me, I came up on you
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Took my talents somewhere else, LeBron James up on you
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I was Kyrie with the rock, the crack game number 2
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Now I'm older, still ballin' like my name Uncle Drew
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They tell you... stay the same, but they change up on you
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Niggas change up the crew like hoes change up their boo
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I just played the cards they dealt me 'til a change-up was due
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Guess I had to switch the dealer or just change up the shoe
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Now blackjack, Ace of Spade and a shot of Jack
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I met a bad actress, she ain't know how to act
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I took her but I brought her back
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Don't want her back, I bought her bag
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Matte like Hasselbeck, I call my car a quarterback
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If I threw it at her would you doubt she could catch?
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She hang like a chain so she 'bout to get snatched
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Ain't about throwin' subs, I'm about gettin' scratches
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But if the shoe fits, nigga, buy an outfit to match it
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And you know my boys hold it, we be out with the ratchets
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I heard your boys told her you be out with the rats
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Keep that on the "Shhhh!”, nothing less, nothing more
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I know the Bad Boys in Brooklyn, they ain't with the Puffy tour
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What's up with your Warriors? They ain't lookin' tough no more
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Should get out your feelings bro, and get in your duffle, boy
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Level up, level up, it's all about that level up
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Hold that fuckin' bezel up and light this bitch all the way up
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All the way up
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All the way up
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And everytime you see me nigga
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Man I'm all the way up
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[Interlude: Jadakiss]
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This is
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Edsclusive
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Uhh, haa
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Days I figured why not, ha-ha
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[Verse 3: Jadakiss]
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Meek called me and Fab, Joe called Jigga up
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She jumped in the 6, 550 wasn't big enough
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Reason niggas die, they don't know how to live enough
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They can tread water, but they can't swim enough
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Nah, I'm built for the physical outing
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Besides that, I'm filthy, like municipal housing
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J all I know is 500, getchu a thousand
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I be in all the hood spots you not allowed in
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Opps in the building, automatically alert that
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Hand on the wrist so the chrome don't jerk back
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Pull it out, you already know you gotta squirt that
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I'm all the way up I'm from where the phones don't work at
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You gon' need the key from the lobby to slide up
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You don't know the key to the body is mind up
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Born with it then you don't gotta get signed up
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Gotta go when you gotta go, your times up
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Extendos, no need for keeping the 9's tucked
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I'm kicking you off the ladder for trying to climb up
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Yup, overlooking the city
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I'm all the way up, I'm like Hov looking at Biggie
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It's 50 in the bank, who rollin'? Shoot the 50
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If I ace, then these niggas think they hit me
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But I'm-
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[Outro: Meek Mill, Fabolous & Jadakiss]
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All the way up
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Haa
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I'm all the way up
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All the way up
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All the way up
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And everytime you see me nigga
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Man I'm all the way up