Me, you ain’t never see me back in the hood without a pistol around, close-and I’m talking about in a legal way.” He points to innocent children dying in Philadelphia every single day. I think we was alike in certain ways, but we got two totally different mind-frames. “Me and Nipsey got different mind-frames. He also teamed up with Puma to donate 500 school bags to his old elementary school, as well as matched Colin Kaepernick’s $10,000 donation to Philadelphia’s Youth Service Inc.įor an artist who used to prominently return to his roots in North Philadelphia as well as South Philadelphia, Nipsey’s March 31 murder has reshaped that thinking. He has donated millions to Pennsylvania public schools alongside Philadelphia 76ers partner Michael Rubin. ” Meek has championed those at the bottom, whether in or out of prison. So the best thing for me to do is to stay. So when I’m comin’ back to the hood, and I’m makin’ millions and actually changin’ my mind-frame, is something always in the back of my head that wants to take on them type guys. I don’t know if y’all been following me my whole when I lay down at night, and I see people trying to bully, that sh*t pop up in my mind like, ‘He won’t do that to me.’ like, I’ve always been that type. If I go to my neighborhood right now, you got some dudes that’s just of so much self-hate in ’em that they’re gonna try me, and I don’t play with ni**as like that.” He continues, “I don’t play with bullies. Gangs Have Called A Historic Truce To Honor Nipsey Hussle (Video) It brings more attention to you in those type of …especially being a famous figure and comin’ back down that low, where you have some people that are lowlives on a solo level-that, if you’re that high up, you can’t even come into contact with ’em, because you’re gonna have to kill ’em, or they’re gonna kill you, or you’re gonna end up goin’ to jail.” If you’re a rapper, it brings attention to you. There’s 365 Black people getting murdered around here every day. Where I come from, our murder rate is 365 people a day. With his leg on the leather chair arm, Meek responds, “It depends what type of hood. Do you think it is possible to be devoted to the hood without putting yourself in danger?” “We’ve seen people from the hood turn on their own people who are trying to do better. “Let me ask you about Nipsey, man,” Charlamagne says at the 59:00 mark, after discussing why Meek Mill refuses to cooperate with law enforcement. JAY-Z Celebrates Nipsey Hussle With A Freestyle About Self-Empowerment (Video) Meek honored Nipsey following his death and now wears a chain immortalizing him and his other fallen soldier, onetime Dreamchasers artist Lil Snupe. The two MCs from different coasts worked together on several occasions, including a collaborative project that Meek says was 20-30% completed. a revealing look at his career, sobriety from pills, and maturity.Īfter discussing JAY-Z’s mentorship, police brutality, and how extensive his opioid addiction became behind the scenes, Meek discusses his friend, collaborator, and Atlantic Records label-mate, Nipsey Hussle. While Meek admits that he often shuns interviews (and vehemently dislikes wearing recording devices on his person), he gives C.T.G. Meek Mill and Charlamagne Tha God recently sat down in the Bahamas for an in-depth, unfiltered, no-holds-barred conversation.