He was signed to 215 Aphillyated Records in 2008 after releasing the mixtape ‘Flamers 2: Hottest in tha City’, and later caught the attention of T.I. who led him to two record deal offers from Grand Hustle and Warner Bros.
While working with Grand Hustle, he joined up with DJ Drama to release ‘Flamers 3: The Wait Is Over’ in 2010 featuring the single ‘Rose Red’.
He signed to Rick Ross’ Maybach Music Group in 2011, and released debut single ‘Tupac Back’, followed by ‘Ima Boss’.
In 2012, he released debut album ‘Dreams & Nightmares’, featuring lead single ‘Amen’, which debuted at number 2 in the charts. That year he also foundered his own label Dream Chasers Records.
In 2015, he announced details of his second album ‘Dreams Worth More Than Money’.
Personal life:Â Meek Mill grew up in Philadelphia with his mother Kathy Williams; his father died after being shot during a robbery when he was just 5-years-old. The family lived in poverty, and while Mill was rarely vocal, he became interested in hip hop after meeting local DJ Grandmaster Nell.
Mill began dating Nicki Minaj in 2015.
At 18, he was arrested for possession of a gun and beaten by police, who later claimed he assaulted them and he was thus charged.
He served seven months in prison for drug dealing and gun possession in 2008, and had his travel permit for touring revoked.
Since March 2015, Meek Mill has been involved in a heavily publicized ongoing feud with Drake.
A Philadelphia judge has denied rapper Meek Mill’s request to have another judge from his case this week, saying that the court does not have jurisdiction on the matter.
Meek Mill, real name Robert Rihmeek Williams, was released from prison on order of the Philadelphia Supreme Court.
He had been serving a two- to four-year sentence for a probation violation relating to a decade-old drug and gun conviction. Prosecutors have since argued that Mill should receive a new trial, because of credibility questions regarding his arresting officer.
His own lawyers, however, want Judge Genece Brinkley thrown off the case, claiming that she’s been waging a personal vendetta against rapper, including her decision to send him to prison regarding the probation violations in November last year.
Rap star Meek Mill will participate in a new Amazon Prime documentary series about the American justice system, following his recent release from prison on bail.
The Philadelphia-born 30 year old, whose real name is Robert Rihmeek Williams, was sentenced back in November 2017 to between two and four years in prison for violating probation regarding a 2008 drug and gun case.
He served five months in prison, before being freed on April 24th after Philadelphia D.A. Larry Krasner admitted that he may have been wrongly convicted in the first place, with a policeman apparently lying at his original trial. In the interim, his incarceration became something of a cause-celebre via social media.
After spending five months behind bars for violating his seemingly never-ending parole, Meek Mill has once again been released on bail thanks to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
He celebrated his freedom with a basketball game and plans to return to making music as soon as possible.
The court ordered the judge to release the 30-year-old rapper on ‘unsecured bail’ this week, over concerns about the fairness of his being accused of violating his probation on a decade old crime.
He was originally sentenced for two to five years, but given that it’s in regards to a gun and drug charge from 2009, Meek and his supporters are questioning this act of ‘justice’.