Meek Mill brings Dream Chasers Nights to Baltimore, seven years later

The Philadelphia rapper's first Baltimore show since 2019 lands Friday, Dec. 11, at CFG Bank Arena, one of only six stops on his new run.

The last time Meek Mill played Baltimore was Dec. 14, 2019, in the same downtown arena. Seven years later, almost to the week, he's coming back.

Meek Mill plays CFG Bank Arena on Friday, Dec. 11, at 8 p.m. Tickets run $50.95 to $255.60 through Ticketmaster, and the arena holds 14,000. The date was announced Oct. 27.

This isn't one stop on a sprawling arena tour. Dream Chasers Nights is a six-night run, according to The Music Universe: it opens with Meek Mill & Friends, his annual hometown concert at Philadelphia's Xfinity Mobile Arena, then continues with five headline dates in Los Angeles, Boston, Baltimore, Chicago and Atlanta. Los Angeles is at the Hollywood Palladium, per SeatGeek's tour announcement. Out of every city in the country, Baltimore made a list of six.

The name is a callback. Dreamchasers has been part of Meek Mill's story for more than a decade: the title of his mixtape series and, later, the name of his label, which he launched in partnership with Roc Nation, as The Source reported. A tour called Dream Chasers Nights puts that history front and center. As far back as 2012, Rap-Up was covering a Dreamchasers tour.

The Philadelphia show is the anchor of the whole run. The Philadelphia Inquirer and Complex both covered the hometown date as a major event, and Meek Mill & Friends has a track record of bringing guests on stage. No special guests have been announced for any of the dates yet, Baltimore included. That leaves room for surprises, and in a building this size, a surprise can be the night everyone talks about afterward.

Seven years is a long gap for an artist who has been this visible, and a lot has happened in that time, in his career and in the arena itself. The two Baltimore dates bookend a stretch when fans here mostly saw him on screens or had to travel up I-95 to catch him at home.

Out of every city in the country, Baltimore made a list of six.

So mark Friday, Dec. 11, at 8 p.m. Prices start just over $50, the run is short, and this is the only Maryland date on it. Don't wait for another seven years.

Sources: The six-night run kicks off with an annual hometown concert (The Music Universe) (themusicuniverse.com); Meek Mill announces Dream Chaser Nights tour dates, presales, tickets (SeatGeek) (seatgeek.ca); Meek Mill Dream Chasers concert Philadelphia (Philadelphia Inquirer) (inquirer.com); Meek Mill Philadelphia concert (Complex) (complex.com); Dreamchasers - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org); Meek Mill Announces Launch of DreamChasers Records with Roc Nation (The Source) (thesource.com); Meek Mill Announces 'Dreamchasers' Tour (Rap-Up) (rap-up.com); Meek Mill at CFG Bank Arena (JamBase) (jambase.com)