Meek Mill And Drake Think It's Cool To Crash Cars We Can't Afford In 'Going Bad' Video

A lifetime ago, Meek Mill and Drake were each other's sneering villains, taunting each other on wax and social media. Seeing them collide, literally and figuratively, in their new video for "Going Bad" forces you to emotional, given everything that they have put each other through. The pair, as well as video director Kid Art and multiple rapper pals, have combined for one of the sleekiest visuals released this year so far. Check it out below.


"Going Bad" is all about the feels it gives off. There's a ton of powerful black faces in the music industry strolling through a luxurious pantheon, yet there's only one woman that appears in the video. Meek and Drake are in the center of the ruckus, naturally, with the sort of suave, blank stares involving being cooler than anyone else. Surrounding them are a number of are members of contemporary hip-hop's brass – Nipsey Hussle, T.I., Swizz Beatz, and more – who match their stale faces in intensity. It's never really revealed where exactly they are walking to, yet it is irrelevant. We're all just really here to be able to see the swaggering stroll, not necessarily where it leads.


The most visually striking part comes as soon as Meek and Drake play chicken with expensive cars and so they both lose. From the starting, both rappers are revealed to be speeding in their respective cars to locations unknown. Immediately after Drake's verse ends, we visualize what they're doing – planning to drive full force into each other. Yikes. They collide in a disaster of crumpled vehicle metal and tire confetti before Meek starts his verse soon after a brief interlude, almost like this collision is a "passing the baton" moment. It may signal their inevitable reunion; they avoided each other for so long right after beefing in 2015 that they are right now back with each other, physically. Or perhaps it's just a CGI effect that Meek determined would look cool with the entire "boss" motif going on.


"Going Bad" appears on Meek's 2018 album Championships. He's released videos for "Intro" and "Trauma" since its release. This month, he's embarking on a tour in support of the LP.