On the latest episode of the New Rory & Mal podcast, hosts Rory Farrell and Jamil ‘Mal’ Clay sat down with a guest we haven’t heard from in a while, rapper/songwriter Quentin Miller.
If Miller’s name sounds familiar, you may recognize him as the mystery “ghostwriter” at the center of the Drake vs. Meek Mill ghostwriting beef of 2015. Although Drake and Meek Mill have since made amends, a lot has happened between then and now, and one side of the story we often don’t get to hear is Miller’s.
In 2016, Miller revealed that he was accosted by Meek Mill and members of his Dream Chasers crew at a Nike Store in Beverly Hills. Angry at his negative perception amongst the public during the ongoing feud with Drake, Miller says Meek Mill and his crew became violent.
As told to Rory & Mal, Miller was in Los Angeles to link up with producer Hit-boy, when he decided to make a quick stop at the Nike store and and was followed into the store by Meek Mill and his boys.
“They come into the store. He says all his sh*t like, ‘You making me look crazy,'” said Miller. “He’s like, ‘I can tell you ain’t on no street sh*t, so I ain’t gon do nothing.’ So I’m like, ‘aight.'”
According to Miller, Meek Mill walked out of the store so he thought things were all good. Shortly after, however, Meek Mill’s entourage walked back into the store with a camera requesting for Miller to admit that he in fact did some ghostwriting for Drake.
“[Meek] just does a quick turnaround. I’m thinking we good, and his mans came back in with the camera,” Miller recalls.
When Miller refused to admit that he wrote Drake’s lyrics, however, that’s when things went left and one of Meek Mill’s men punched him and exited the store.
Miller also shared with the Rory and Mal podcast that he later came to find out that it may have been Nicki Minaj, who was dating Meek Mill at the time, who made the call for them to return to the store and “run that.”
“I found out, and I don’t know how true this is, but I found out that was a Nicki Minaj call,” says Miller. “I heard when they went back to the car it was Nicki that was like, ‘Nah, run that.'”
Meek Mill vs. Drake (a recap)
Just in case you’re unfamiliar with the drama that ensued, here’s a quick Recap on the Drake and Meek Mill beef and how Quentin Miller was dragged into the mess. It all takes place on social media, Twitter, to be exact. The social media seems like the hot spot where many entertainers air out folks and their business.
Back in 2015, Mill tweeted:
“Stop comparing drake to me too…. He don’t write his own raps! That’s why he ain’t tweet my album because we found out!”
That’s when everything hit the fan and the drama began. Out of nowhere, Mill Mill accused Drake of not writing his own raps and claimed that Drake didn’t post or promote his album, Dreams Worth More Than Money, because he and his team got information about Drake using a ghostwriter.
As reported on Billboard, back in 2015, Meek Mill jumped back on Twitter and carried on to say that he would’ve removed Drake’s verse from their DWMTM collaboration “R.I.C.O.” had he known that Drake didn’t write it himself.
‘He ain’t even write that verse on my album and if I woulda knew I woulda took it off my album….. I don’t trick my fans! Lol
— Meek Mill
Shortly after Mill’s Twitter rant, Hot 97’s Funkmaster Flex inserted himself into the mix by spinning Quentin Miller’s “10 Bands” reference track, one of the hottest songs on Drake’s “If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late” album. Allegedly, the song was sent to Flex from someone on OVO’s camp and per Flex, Quentin Miller received $5,000 a month from Drake’s label.
That same day, Meek Mill accompanied his then-girlfriend, Nicki Minaj on stage during her tour stop in Bristow, VA, where he shouted out the Toronto rapper and stated he was just “upset as a fan.” He also apologized to Minaj for his Twitter shenanigans.
Meanwhile, Drizzy was plotting. During his 2-hour Beats 1 OVO Sound radio show on Saturday, July 25, he let go of a song viciously aimed at Meek Mill titled, “Charged Up”, and the internet was in shambles.
N—–s snitching on us without no interrogation. I stay silent ‘cause we at war and I’m very patient. 6God is watching,” he raps. “Done doing favors for people ‘cause it ain’t like I need the money I make off a feature/ I see you n—–s having trouble going gold, turning into some so and sos that no one knows.”
If that wasn’t enough, Drake wasted no time. Before Meek Mill could issue a response, the Toronto rapper dropped another bomb titled “Back To Back.”
The diss record immediately flooded timelines and one part that stood out was Drake referencing Mill’s opening slot on Nicki Minaj’s The Pinkprint tour.
Is that a world tour or your girl’s tour?/ I know that you gotta be a thug for her/ This ain’t what she meant when she told you to open up more.”
Through all of this, Meek is still silent. The internet waited for Meek Mill’s diss track that Funk Flex claimed to have. Meek finally releases it and folks quickly crowned Drake victorious in the battle. I guess it never sat well with Mill, and this is where innocent Miller got dragged in.
As for Nicki Minaj’s involvement, it remains uncertain to Miller, and we may never know how much truth there is to his theory, but it sure is a crazy rumor.
