Expensive Pain

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Expensive Pain
Meek Mill - Expensive Pain.png
Studio album by
Meek Mill
ReleasedOctober 1, 2021
Length55:04
Label
  • Dreamchasers Records / Roc Nation
Producer
Meek Mill chronology
Quarantine Pack
(2020) 		Expensive Pain
(2021)
Singles from Expensive Pain
  1. "Flamerz Flow"
    Released: June 3, 2021
  2. "Sharing Locations"
    Released: August 27, 2021
  3. "Blue Notes 2"
    Released: September 1, 2021

Expensive Pain is the fifth studio album by American rapper Meek Mill. It was released on October 1, 2021, through Dreamchasers Records The production on the album was handled by multiple producers including Boi-1da, Tay Keith, Vinylz, 30 Roc, Cardo and Sevn Thomas among others. The album also features guest appearances from Lil Baby, Lil Durk, Kehlani, ASAP Ferg, Moneybagg Yo, Giggs, Young Thug, Vory, Lil Uzi Vert, and Brent Faiyaz.[1]

Expensive Pain was supported by three singles: "Flamerz Flow", "Sharing Locations" and "Blue Notes 2". The album received generally mixed to positive reviews from music critics but despite that was a commercial success. It debuted at number three on the US Billboard 200 chart, earning 95,000 album-equivalent units in its first week.[2]

Release and promotion[]

Meek announced the album, cover art, and release date on September 15, 2021.[3] He revealed the tracklist on September 30, the day before the album was released.[4]

Singles[]

Three singles preceded the album's release. "Flamerz Flow" is a bonus track, and it was released with a music video on May 31, 2021, to his YouTube channel, being officially released three days later.[5] "Sharing Locations" featuring Lil Baby and Lil Durk was released on August 27 with a video as the second single.[6] Then "Blue Notes 2" featuring Lil Uzi Vert was the third single, released with a video five days later and performed live on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on September 21.[7][8]

Critical reception[]

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic64/100[9]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[10]
Clash6/10[11]
NME[12]
Pitchfork6.8/10[13]
Rolling Stone[14]

Expensive Pain was met with generally mixed to positive reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an average score of 64, indicating “generally favorable reviews”, based on six reviews.[9]

A.D. Amorosi of Variety praised Meek's progression with this effort calling "Expensive Pain Mill’s best, most fully rounded recorded effort: an album that finally portrays all sides of the rapper’s rise, fall, struggles and revivals, to say nothing of his skills as a writer and as an aggressive flow-acist." He also prasied Mill's braggadocios approach to many of the songs on the project, saying that "Mill comes out with hope and real brio on his side – a confidence that goes way beyond any mere humble-brag or boast."[15]

Commercial performance[]

Expensive Pain debuted at number three on the US Billboard 200 chart, earning 95,000 album-equivalent units (including 10,000 copies in pure album sales) in its first week.[2] This became Meek Mill's fifth US top-ten debut on the chart.[2] The album also accumulated a total of 110.53 million on-demand streams from the songs on the project.[2] In its second week, the album dropped to number four on the chart, earning an additional 46,000 units.[16]

Track listing[]

Expensive Pain track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Intro (Hate on Me)"
  • Cardo
  • Johnny Juliano
  • Yung Exclusive
2:55
2."Outside (100 MPH)"
  • R. Williams
  • LaTour
  • Trey Davis
  • Dominik Patrzek
  • Cardo
  • Deats
3:19
3."On My Soul"
  • R. Williams
  • Eduardo Earle
  • John Lucas
  • Adi Helic
  • Billy Holmdahl
  • Anthony Cruz
  • Fuse
  • JW Lucas
  • Yugo Getit
  • Gingr
2:22
4."Sharing Locations" (featuring Lil Baby and Lil Durk)
2:41
5."Expensive Pain"
  • R. Williams
  • Michael Holmes
  • Cruz
  • Julius Herold
  • Vianey Mfuamba
3:34
6."Ride for You" (featuring Kehlani)
  • Austin Powerz
  • Sav
3:02
7."Me (FMW)" (featuring Kid Ink&ASAP Ferg)
3:00
8."Hot" (featuring Moneybagg Yo)
  • Nick Papz
  • KJ
  • Eza
2:31
9."Love Train"
  • R. Williams
  • Cruz
  • Aaron Tesfagiorgis
  • Simon Gebrelul
  • AT
  • Gebrelul
3:55
10."Northside Southside" (featuring Giggs)
  • Cardo
  • Emkay
3:03
11."We Slide" (featuring Young Thug)
3:31
12."Tweaking" (featuring Vory)
3:17
13."Love Money"
  • R. Williams
  • Cruz
  • Earle
  • David Weiner
  • Grant Hewlett
  • Fuse
  • Dato
  • Amore
3:02
14."Blue Notes 2" (featuring Lil Uzi Vert)
  • Nick Papz
  • Xander
3:50
15."Angels (RIP Lil Snupe)"
Dougie on the Beat3:01
16."Cold Hearted III"
2:48
17."Halo" (featuring Brent Faiyaz)
3:32
18."Flamerz Flow" (bonus track)
1:41
Total length:55:04

Notes

  • ^[a] signifies a co-producer.
  • "Intro (Hate on Me)" features additional vocals by Popcaan
  • "Outside (100 MPH)" features additional vocals by Sadie Kraft
  • "Expensive Pain" features additional vocals by Jena Goldsack


Sample credits

  • "Intro (Hate on Me)" contains samples of "Hate Me Now", written by Nasir Jones, Sean Combs and Gavin Marchand, as performed by Nas, which itself samples "Carmina Burana", written and composed by Carl Orff.
  • "Sharing Locations" contains uncredited samples of "Chichovite", performed by 1200.
  • "Me (FWM)" contains samples from "Bia’ Bia’", written by Jonathan Smith, Todd Shaw, Stephanie Martin and Sammie Norris, as performed by Lil Jon.
  • "Blue Notes 2" is a sequel to "Blue Notes" from DC4, and they both sample "Midnight Blues", performed by Snowy White.

Charts[]

References[]

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