For Young Meepa, MXTPE #2: misanthropy isn’t just a new release, it’s a record of how survival sounds when it’s stripped of optimism. The 13-track, 32-minute mixtape arrived on December 4, 2025, released under a full Gemini moon. From the start, it presents itself as unfiltered and confrontational, rooted in lived reality rather than performance.

In the context of Young Meepa’s work, misanthropy isn’t an abstract philosophy or blind hatred. It reflects what happens when trust is broken repeatedly over time. It’s the emotional result of being hurt often enough that distance starts to feel like protection.

Rather than pointing to one moment or one person, misanthropy in this sense grows out of patterns — homelessness, addiction, and constant exposure to systems that treat certain lives as disposable. The feeling isn’t loud for the sake of shock. It’s defensive, shaped by exhaustion and survival.

Importantly, this version of misanthropy doesn’t reject feeling altogether. It carries awareness, memory, and restraint. It acknowledges damage, and anger. Here, misanthropy is used to describe disillusionment, not to praise cruelty.

At 16, Young Meepa exited the school system and completed his GED on the same day, testing at a level equivalent to a college graduate. Rather than settling into stability, his life shifted into constant motion. He traveled as a crust punk, riding freight trains and surviving without a home. His years on the move took him through Detroit, Bloomington, Dayton, and Chicago, including time spent in abandoned buildings on the West Side. During this chapter, addiction to heroin and fentanyl became part of his reality, and survival was never guaranteed.

Where survival once meant constant movement, it now comes through composition. Today, Young Meepa survives by creating, using music as both structure and purpose. Looking forward, he is already building MXTPE #3: dystopia… Pt. 1 & Pt. 2. Explaining the structure, he says: “So I’m starting a 2 pt mixtape already called ‘MXTPE #3 dystopia… Pt.1’ and ‘MXTPE #3 dystopia… Pt.2.’ … all together it’s equal out to 33 tracks which however you look at it can be either evil, holy, or neutral but weirdly divisible.”