Meek Mill Says Prison Helped Him Focus His Career

    Even though he’s one of Hip Hop’s hottest new acts, MMG rapper Meek Mill’s career was almost cut short before it even began when he was arrested in 2008 on gun charges. Now, in an interview with XXL, the Philly emcee talks about how his time in jail actually helped his career.

    Meek explained that his eight month prison sentence helped him realize his desire to become an emcee. He said jail forced him to come to a crossroads in his street life, making him realize that he wanted his life to go somewhere beyond prison bars.

    “I’m just a natural hustler. Before anybody even ever heard of me, I had money,” he said. “When I got signed, I had $250,000 – I was like 21. I was just a natural born hustler. Before I went to jail, I used to be a slouch. I used to smoke weed; things like that. Get high, hang on corners, play with guns – do a lot of dumb stuff. It took me to sit down in jail one time and use my brain and think. That’s the best thing jail did for me. I sat down and I thought about everything I could possibly do when I got out of there…I had my own little conversation with God, and I feel as though the message that I was sent was, ‘If you want to be in the street, this is where you can go [or] you could put your whole life into this rap thing, and you could go somewhere’…I just put my life into it.”

    Check out the full interview below.

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    23 thoughts on “Meek Mill Says Prison Helped Him Focus His Career

    1. Not a huge fan of his music (Not saying I dislike it) but I respect him for this.

      I know of a few people who need the same realisation!

      1. Shit boy, it’s better than them nappy heads who don’t realise and end up back there longer or dead. Makes YOU safer on the streets.

    2. Meek mill is cool, i had a similar experience. except i didnt have no guns and i didnt go to prison… and im not a rapper and i dont even have $1000…. but i have ambition and ima make some money through school and my ideas no doubt.

      1. This nigga doesnt have one thousand dollars, bwhahahahahaha. You so broke ma nigga. Fools like u download albums for free, ha ha. #BrokeNiggaz is that shit I don’t like

    3. fuck da haters. Meek Mill and Rick Ross are da realest niggas alive. oh and Rick Ross outsold 50 Cent and Young Jeezy combined. so fuck u old rap fans. MMG is da most wanted hip hop. swag

    4. MMG R WACK

      YMCMB R WACK.

      GOOD MUSIC R WACK

      KENDRICK LEMAR IS WACK

      COKE BOYZ R WACK

      HIP-HOP IN 2012 IS WACK. YOU MOTHA F*CKER CAN KEEP IT.

      IM OUT MOTHAF*CKERZ

    5. No 21 year old has $250,000. He probably sold some weed and had maybe five thousand tucked inside his sock drawer.

    6. TO ME, that niggaa meek the hottest out right now, I honestly don’t see how anyone can say he’s wack, as far as Ross, the nigga gettin money and has consistent singles, but I can’t feel anything that nigga say, anytime he talk about how he used to hustle it makes me sick, idk how niggas can feel his bullshit, meek was locked up, Ross was locking niggas up, if you ever been to jail, u kno C.O.s are fucking jakes, but my nigga meek his hard, I don’t buy albums much, but I was forsure b grabbing dreams & nightmares

    7. if imma finna keep it 100, da nigga soulja boy is da realist in da rap game or trap game for dat matter, not dis lame nigga geek millz. bet 100 dollaz he wouldn’t last a sec in soulja boys hood or my hood if we keepin it real! so he can keep all dat hard talk on wax! in da streets i kno he aint bout it bout it like me and the kid soulja boy! SODMG!

      SWAG

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