Meek Mill, Lil Durk, Lil Baby and 21 Savage Are Building Their Own Music Platform

“[W]e gone build something where we can maximize black wealth…” Mill wrote on social media.

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Meek Mill has teamed up with Lil Durk, Lil Baby and 21 Savage to build their very own digital streaming platform.

The Championships artist took to Twitter to make the announcement and essentially post a hiring ad for those in Silicon Valley. “Me lil baby Durkio tryna get somebody in Silicon Valley to build us our own music platform we can be majority owner in! We will pay!! We need top Silicon Valley steppers please!” Mill tweeted, adding, “21 gone link in too we need some app options we looking for the best platform builders!!!! Tryna get started 2021[.]“

A day later, he provided some more information about the new venture, “[W]e gone start something and donate a % to the people we make money from! We waiting on production now! #culturecurrency coming full blast!!!”

“Respectfully to Spotify too we get millions with them one of my biggest platforms I sell on! We need their help too… but we gone build something where we can maximize black wealth and we not gone fail by any means “we got a real backing behind us” let’s get it,” Mill continued. “We not even trying to build the same thing as Spotify …tidal … apple we wanna build a platform/tool and connect it with those big big companies and eat and build up some billion dollar shit! If you a big rapper that sale a lot snd got a lot of influence rap in for %[.]”

Elsewhere in music, Playboi Carti’s Whole Lotta Red is projected to debut at No. 1.

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