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Meek Mill's new album Championships contains a song called "What's Free," which features Jay-Z and Rick Ross and flips the Biggie classic "What's Beef" to be about what it means for a black man to be free in America. Alas, the world so far has mostly been focused on the beef. "Jay-Z Calls Out Kanye’s Trump Support on Meek Mill’s New Album" wrote Vulture this morning, which refers to a few lines from Jay's verse that go like this, via Genius: No red hat, don't Michael and Prince me and Ye They separate you when you got Michael and Prince's DNA, uh I ain't one of these house niggas you bought My house like a resort, my house bigger than yours My spou- (C'mon, man) Per Vulture's reading (and others like Pitchfork, Newsweek and Cosmopolitan), Jay "denounces Kanye for glorifying the MAGA hat and calls his former friend and “brother” a house slave for blindly supporting Trump." As others have pointed out, though, Jay is rather doing the opposite: chiding people—or perhaps Trump directly himself—for using Kanye's recent waywardness to force a wedge in between the two of them. (Though, certainly, you could understand why they might.) At the beginning of the section, Jay does clearly separate himself from Kanye—"no red hat"—but the rest of it addresses Trump and the few black people willing to work for him. Jay himself felt compelled enough by the misreadings to tweet for the first time in a year and a half. https://twitter.com/S_C_/status/1068565544008384512 Elsewhere on the song, Rick Ross, a fake gangster, seems to diss Tekashi 6ix9ine, allegedly a fake gangster himself, for being a fake gangster. Rap music, baby.

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