Meek Mill Fires Off At DJ Akademiks After Lil Durks Takes Victory In Court

the purple snake September 13, 2026

The latest chapter in one of hip-hop’s longest-running media feuds exploded this weekend after Lil Durk’s acquittal.



On September 11, 2026, a Los Angeles federal jury found Lil Durk not guilty on all counts in his murder-for-hire trial. The next day, Meek Mill used the moment to launch a wide-ranging attack on DJ Akademiks, on a now deleted tweet, accusing the commentator of harming Black artists from the streets, platforming 6ix9ine during Durk’s case, and fueling conflicts that have real-world consequences. Akademiks responded with mockery, a show of firearms, and a declaration that he is done engaging.

The two have been at it, on and off, for nearly a decade. This round is the most public and personal in years.

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What Meek Mill is saying

Meek framed Akademiks as an outsider who profits from chaos while successful street artists fight for their lives and careers. In a series of posts, he wrote that Akademiks “gas lit every major young hip hop beef,” broadcast 6ix9ine while Durk “fought for his life,” and exists “to destroy successful black men from the streets.” He called Akademiks “the biggest rat” because he “has nothing to do with growing up in the streets,” accused him of causing “death and destruction and laughing at it,” and urged the culture to unfollow and mute him.

Meek also referenced Akademiks’ past controversies, including a livestream incident involving comments toward a teenage streamer and Akademiks’ earlier mentions of Meek in connection with cases involving Diddy and Big U. He accused Akademiks of being a rapist—an allegation that has circulated in prior beefs and remains unproven in court. He announced plans to launch “Dream Chasers streaming” to compete with Akademiks’ high-volume clip output and threatened to stream in front of Akademiks’ New Jersey home.

Meek’s broader argument is consistent with positions he has taken since at least 2020: that certain media figures escalate rap beefs for views, that street artists should not be treated as content, and that commentators who never lived the life should not lecture or platform people who did. He has previously claimed Akademiks’ coverage contributed to a steep drop in his own streams.

What DJ Akademiks is saying

Akademiks treated the outburst as recycled and beneath him. “I use to get excited when u went at me just knowing I’d have a good response … unfortunately my only response for you going forward is ‘lol,’” he posted. “Not too bad for a lil platform eh. Goodbye meek. We been thru this 100 times..when ur back to that level of relevancy we can reengage.” He added that Meek “want this to be 2015 again. It will never be” and that history is already written. A later post simply read “Obsession. Goodbye Meek.”

After Meek threatened to pull up, Akademiks posted photos of his gun collection. He declined a live debate, posted a screenshot of Meek attempting an Instagram call that went unanswered, and addressed the situation on stream. His stance is that he is a media personality covering the culture—including interviews with people on every side of a story—and that Meek is a fading artist trying to recapture old energy by attacking someone with a larger current platform.

Akademiks has long maintained that he did not start the original conflict. In 2017 he said Meek and the Dream Chasers gave him an ultimatum about how to post Wins & Losses—post it their way or not at all—and that threats followed when he didn’t comply. He has also pointed out that prosecutors, not him, introduced his 2023 interview with Durk into the murder-for-hire trial. 6ix9ine separately accused Akademiks of going too hard for Durk, undercutting the idea that Akademiks was simply a Durk opponent.

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How we got here

The feud traces to 2017 and Wins & Losses. Akademiks said he received a DM from Meek’s camp with instructions on coverage; when he didn’t follow them, he claimed threats followed and he stopped posting Meek. Meek’s camp has framed it as Akademiks failing to support the album after earlier access.

In 2020 Meek called for Akademiks to be canceled, accused him of gassing beefs that got people hurt, and was reported to have “greenlighted” him. Akademiks said he sent that threat to police. The two argued on Clubhouse that December; 21 Savage helped mediate a temporary truce around 2022. The peace did not last. In 2024 Akademiks discussed a Diddy lawsuit in a way that implicated Meek (Meek was not named in the filing). Meek blocked him. Periodic flare-ups continued, including Meek’s comments after Akademiks faced public backlash over livestream comments toward a minor.

The larger argument

This is not only two personalities trading insults. It is a recurring fight over who gets to narrate hip-hop.

Meek’s side sees a commentator who never came from the streets amplifying informants, stoking beefs, inserting himself into legal cases, and laughing at the fallout while artists and their families pay the price. From that view, unfollowing Akademiks is a form of cultural self-defense.

Akademiks’ side sees a rapper who demanded coverage on his terms, threatened a media figure, then spent years treating that figure as the reason for career frustrations. From that view, covering 6ix9ine, Durk, legal cases, and industry drama is the job; street-code rules about “rats” do not automatically apply to journalists and streamers; and Meek’s constant tweeting undercuts lectures about how “street niggas don’t tweet all day.”

Both men have used the police, public threats, and platform power. Both have allies who treat the other as a cancer on the culture. Neither has shown much interest in de-escalation this week.

Meek is calling for a boycott and promising his own streaming operation. Akademiks is posting guns, saying “lol,” and moving on to the next story. The pattern since 2017 suggests this round will quiet down until the next news cycle gives one of them a reason to start it again.

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