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• "Proud of Me," a collaboration between Fridayy and Meek Mill, is the sound of two men trying to make sense of loss. Fridayy lost his father in January 2024 while he was on tour - he said his goodbyes over FaceTime. Meek Mill, meanwhile, has lived with the absence of his father for far longer. His dad was killed in an apparent robbery in 1992 when Meek was just 5 years old, an event that made him relentlessly determined to succeed.
  
  Despite the years that separate their losses, the pain the two artists feel is a shared, unshakable bond.
  
  "Proud of Me" isn't just about mourning - it's about the strange way grief changes over time. "Fresh when it happened, [I was] crying, but this song is different," Fridayy told Vibe "It's like I'm understanding life more after the loss."
• "Proud of Me" was a product of both urgency and catharsis. Even after his album Some Days I'm Good, Some Days I'm Not was finalized, Fridayy felt something was missing. At the eleventh hour, he pulled up to Meek in New York for a marathon 12-hour studio session. Meek, breaking through a bout of writer's block, spent eight of those hours in the booth without so much as a sip of water, as if the only way to process everything was to exorcise it in real time.
• Fridayy produced the track with Fortune and Musik Spirit. Their production pairs a soulful piano melody with the introspective verses, creating a reflective, melancholic atmosphere.
  
  Los Angeles native and hip-hop/R&B producer Fortune is a frequent Fridayy collaborator, including his hit song with Lil Baby, "Forever."
  
  Musik Spirit is a Philadelphia-based producer. He previously worked with Fridayy on his 2023 track "Lost My Way."
• The music video, filmed in Fridayy and Meek Mill's hometown of Philadelphia, brings the song's themes to life - images of sorrow juxtaposed with moments of pride, scenes of family and community layered with the weight of absence. It is, in many ways, a visual representation of the album's title. Because some days you're good and some days you're not.
• Fridayy considered naming the album Bittersweet because it oscillates between joy and grief. But ultimately, Some Days I'm Good, Some Days I'm Not felt truer, a phrase that doesn't pretend everything is fine, nor suggests that the pain ever truly fades.