In February 2011, after leaving Grand Hustle Records, Mill signed with Miami-based rapper Rick Ross's Maybach Music Group.
70 Facts About Meek Mill
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In October 2012, Meek Mill announced the launch of his own label imprint, Dream Chasers Records, named after his mixtape series.
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Meek Mill rose to fame after featured on MMG's Self Made compilation, with his debut singles "Tupac Back" and "Ima Boss", being included on volume one.
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Meek Mill served as executive producer on the series alongside fellow rapper Jay-Z.
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Meek Mill's father was killed when Meek Mill was five years old, apparently during an attempted robbery.
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Meek Mill was influenced by the independent hip-hop artists Chic Raw and Vodka, whom he learned to emulate by watching their DVDs.
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Meek Mill often stayed up well past midnight filling notebooks with phrases and verses that he later drew on.
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However, a setback occurred, when Meek Mill was sentenced to a stint in jail for a drug and gun charge.
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Rick Ross contributed his verse after he was visiting Philadelphia and asked his Twitter followers who he should collaborate with; Meek Mill was the overwhelming response.
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The remix was included on Meek Mill's following mixtape, Mr Philadelphia.
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In March 2011, Meek Mill was included in XXL's "Freshman Class of 2011".
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On May 7,2012, Meek Mill released the second installment to his Dreamchasers series.
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Meek Mill released the third installment of the Dreamchasers series, Dreamchasers 3.
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In November 2013, Meek Mill announced thathe was half-way finished with his second studio album.
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On March 8,2014, Meek Mill announced that the album would be titled Dreams Worth More Than Money.
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Meek Mill posted 6 videos on his Instagram previewing music for his mixtape, DC4.
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On November 16,2018, Meek Mill announced his fourth album, Championships, which was released on November 30.
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In June 2020, Meek Mill released his protest song "Otherside of America", amid the protests following the murder of George Floyd.
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On November 20,2020, Meek Mill returned with a four-track EP, Quarantine Pack, which features rappers 42 Dugg, Vory, and Lil Durk, who appears in the video for the track, "Pain Away".
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Meek Mill went on to state that Atlantic Records was responsible for the low sales of the album.
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Meek Mill went as afar to state that the label wouldn't allow him to bring PnB Rock nor Roddy Ricch as artists to his Dream Chasers imprint, while clarifying that Atlantic restricted him from releasing any more music for the following nine months and demanded his release alongside labelmates, fellow Philadelphian Lil Uzi Vert, and YoungBoy Never Broke Again.
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On July 11,2022, Meek Mill confirmed that he had ended his management deal with Jay-Z's Roc Nation Entertainment, stating that although he and the company are no longer partners in the exact term, he and Jay remain on good terms.
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On October 26,2012, Meek Mill announced the launch of his own record label imprint, Dream Chasers Records, with the flagship artists Louie V Gutta, Lee Mazin and Goldie.
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On July 24,2019, Meek Mill announced the official launch of Dream Chasers Records as a joint venture with Roc Nation.
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When he was 18, while walking to a corner store armed, Meek Mill was arrested for illegally possessing a firearm and was beaten up by the police.
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Meek Mill was charged with attempted or aggravated assault against a police officer after two black cops gave a statement against him in the case, saying he chased them down with a gun and tried to shoot one of them.
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In 2008, Meek Mill was convicted of possession of drug paraphernalia, and second-degree possession of a loaded firearm by a convicted felon.
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Meek Mill was sentenced to eleven to twenty-three months in prison, followed by eight years probation, by Philadelphia County Superior Court Judge Genece Brinkley.
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Meek Mill was released in early 2009 under a five-year parole agreement after serving seven months.
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The outcome of the arrest remains unknown; no charges were filed, and Meek Mill was released from custody.
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However, in December, because of the incident, Meek Mill was found to have violated his probation for his 2008 federal drug and gun charges, resulting in Judge Brinkley revoking Meek Mill's travel permit.
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In May 2013, Meek Mill was again found to have violated his probation and ordered to take etiquette classes.
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On July 11,2014, Meek Mill's probation was revoked and he was sentenced to three to six months in jail.
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Meek Mill was found guilty for a parole violation again on December 17,2015, due to him performing at an Atlanta show for Nicki Minaj's Pinkprint tour, the 2015 BET Awards and American Music Awards respectively, all without reporting his actions as related court orders to gain approval.
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Meek Mill was not allowed to work and was required to do daily community service with groups serving adults.
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Meek Mill was sentenced to an extended six years probation.
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On June 2,2016, Meek Mill was sentenced to eight additional days of house arrest as a result of him not completing his required community service hours.
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On March 11,2017, Meek Mill was arrested at the St Louis Lambert International Airport in Missouri for assaulting two employees.
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On July 24,2019, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania granted Meek Mill's appeal, overturning his 2008 conviction and ordering a new trial to be overseen by another judge other than Judge Brinkley.
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In May 2019, Meek Mill was turned away from the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas when attempting to attend a show.
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On May 25,2019, Meek Mill said that he intended to pursue legal action against the hotel for racial discrimination.
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In 2016, Meek Mill spent $50,000 to donate 60,000 Ice Mountain brand bottled water to contribute to and support the Flint water crisis in Michigan as he teamed up with Big Sean.
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In 2018, following his release from state custody, Meek Mill immediately became a leading advocate of criminal justice reform in the United States, where he transitioned his advocacy into the co-formation of Reform Alliance with fellow recording artist and entrepreneur Jay-Z.
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Later, in August 2018, Meek Mill donated 6,000 backpacks to students of Philadelphia.
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Eight months later, on September 5,2013, Meek Mill released another diss record towards Cassidy, titled "Kendrick You Next".
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In July 2015, Meek Mill publicly criticized Canadian Toronto-based entertainer Drake on Twitter, calling him out for not writing his own lyrics.
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Meek Mill admitted that he was upset that Drake did not promote the album on Twitter, upon its release.
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Meek Mill had identified the ghostwriter as Quentin Miller, a local rapper from Atlanta.
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Meek Mill's claims received support from Funkmaster Flex, an American hip hop DJ on New York City's Hot 97 radio station.
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The next day, Meek Mill released a track attacking Drake titled "Wanna Know" through Funkmaster Flex on Hot 97.
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On "Wanna Know", Meek Mill revealed another reference track, ghostwritten by Quentin Miller for Drake, who he criticized for being soft.
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Meek Mill dissed AR-Ab on the track, and claimed that Drake was urinated on inside a movie theatre.
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Meek Mill then removed the song from SoundCloud and said that he was moving on from his feud with Drake after WWE sent him a cease and desist.
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On January 30,2016, Drake released a new diss track aimed at Meek Mill, titled "Summer Sixteen", as the buzz single, used to promote his fourth studio album, Views.
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Less than fifteen minutes later, Meek Mill released a response track with his cousin and label mate Omelly called "War Pain".
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Four months later, Meek Mill released a remix of Fat Joe and Remy Ma's "All the Way Up" with fellow rappers Fabolous and Jadakiss.
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Drake was featured on Meek Mill's song "Going Bad", from his post-incarceration album Championships.
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Three days later Meek Mill criticized Sigel through many derogatory Instagram messages.
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Later Meek Mill dissed Sigel, The Game and Drake in a freestyle on Funkmaster Flex's radio show.
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In January 2019, after it was revealed that 6ix9ine would be cooperating with prosecutors, Meek Mill tweeted that he already predicted that 6ix9ine would do so, and would continually diss him for that.
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In June 2020,6ix9ine criticized Meek Mill for releasing his protest song, "Otherside of America", while not "protesting".
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On February 14,2021, the rappers got into an altercation outside an Atlanta club, in which 6ix9ine clowned Meek Mill for having security around him and lunged at them, but was stopped by Meek Mill's security.
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On February 19,2021,6ix9ine released a diss track towards Meek Mill, titled "Zaza", with a music video that includes a clip of the altercation.
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On September 9,2013, Meek Mill later released "Ooh, Kill 'Em", a response to Lamar's verse on "Control".
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Meek Mill criticized Wale for not helping him support his second studio album.
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Meek Mill was disappointed at Mill's response, since he called out AR-Ab on "Wanna Know", the response to Drake's diss track.
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AR-Ab did another interview on VladTV and said Meek Mill was too scared to respond himself and Omelly was the "softest one on Dream Chasers".
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Meek Mill said he would not respond to Omelly's diss because he was a "worker".
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In January 2016 AR-Ab revealed that he and Meek Mill had talked it out and their feud was now over.
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Meek Mill disparaged 50 in a direct message, ridiculing his case involving Ross's ex-girlfriend, followed up by his bankruptcy case.