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Released | February 7, 2020 | |||
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Length | 45:00 | |||
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Meet the Woo 2 (alternatively titled Meet the Woo, Vol. 2) is the second mixtape by American rapper Pop Smoke. Released by Victor Victor Worldwide and Republic Records on February 7, 2020, it is the second installment in the Meet the Woo mixtape series, following Meet the Woo (2019). The deluxe edition of the mixtape, released on February 12, 2020, features three new tracks, including a remix of "Dior" featuring American rapper Gunna. On February 19, 2020, less than two weeks after the release of the standard edition of Meet the Woo 2, Pop Smoke was shot and killed at age 20 during a home invasion. Guest appearances on the mixtape include Quavo, A Boogie wit da Hoodie, Fivio Foreign, Lil Tjay, Nav, Gunna, and PnB Rock.
Meet the Woo 2 is a hip hop, electronic, and drill record. The mixtape received generally favorable reviews from music critics, who praised its energy and Pop Smoke's vocals. Although Meet the Woo 2's lead single "Christopher Walking" did not chart, the mixtape's second single, "Shake the Room" featuring Quavo did, peaking at number 93 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number 76 on the UK Singles Chart. Many bonus tracks and non-singles charted after Pop Smoke's death. "Dior" became the rapper's first solo and posthumous Billboard Hot 100 hit, peaking at number 22. "War" featuring Lil Tjay and "Element" both charted on the Canadian Hot 100, peaking at numbers 100 and 90, respectively.
The mixtape appeared on several publications' lists of the best albums of 2020; The Washington Post and Highsnobiety placed it in the top five. Meet the Woo 2 debuted at number seven on the US Billboard 200, becoming Pop Smoke's first top-10 hit on the chart. In the United States, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified it gold. The mixtape peaked in the top 30 of record charts in Australia, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, Finland, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the Belgium Flanders chart.