A Philadelphia rapper who likes to ride

PUT JAY-Z on a Yamaha YZ-250, Kanye on a Kawasaki KX-125, or Lil Wayne on a little Honda, and they have nothing on Meek Mill, a Philly hip-hop artist who's risen from local mix-tape legend to next-big-thing, chasing his dreams to the top on one wheel.

"Any rapper, too, I'll bet any rapper you can't wheelie better than me," Mill says in a YouTube video, where he's mostly on a dirt bike.

The Daily News tried to catch up with Mill, born Robert Rahmeek Williams, but we missed calls, traded texts and, for weeks, made plans that never panned out. He's as elusive as Philly's notorious and illegal dirt-bike riders, but any mention of the dirt bike/ATV scene would be remiss if it didn't mention him.

Mill loves dirt bikes and ATVs. There's video after video of him riding in the city, past Citizens Bank Park, at the illegal drag strip on Beach Street in Fishtown, in the garage at Lou Racing Customs Cycles in North Philly, and at the airport. According to a profile in Philadelphia City Paper last year, Mill split his youth between his mother's home in South Philly and his father's place in North Philly, where he currently lives. The story didn't mention his obsession with dirt bikes, though.

"That's what I'm about, that's what I always wanted to do," he says about riding, in one video. "It's like better than sex."

Mill's signed to Rick Ross' Maybach Music Group, but says he'd rather be on dirt bikes in his videos than in a Maybach luxury car or in a club sipping champagne. So you get it, there's a hardcore dirt-bike-love thing going on in Philly, and Meek Mill has become its unofficial spokesman.

He has major clothing endorsements already, but a smart executive at any of the major off-road manufacturers — Honda, Kawasaki, Yamaha and Suzuki — would be even smarter if they signed him and tapped into a new market of amazing talent in urban riders like Meek Mill or any of the dozens of guys the Daily News met recently.

"We're out here in Philly, about to do this bike scene," Mill says in one video, sitting on a bike on a sunny afternoon. "It's my favorite scene. This is the scene that make me smile all day."