His son Czar with fashion designer Milan Harris (from whom he has since split) was born in May 2020 on his 33rd birthday. Mill, who was born Robert Rihmeek Williams, spent the early days of the pandemic quarantining in Atlanta with his family. He was freed in May after the Philadelphia District Attorney’s office found he didn’t get a fair trial. Mill has used his fame to call attention to the cases of incarcerated people such as Eric Riddick, the Philadelphia man he met at the Chester State Correctional Institution who had served 29 years of a life sentence for murder. Some of my friends and family was killed. “I happened to live in those areas for 20 years of my life,” he said. His father was killed during a robbery in South Philly when he was 5. Mill grew up in South and North Philadelphia. “Probably the doctors in Philadelphia have PTSD, and the detectives and the people who live in the communities and probably some of the news reporters have PTSD, from living around all that murder that’s happening in the city.” “When we were younger, we were getting beat up by cops, and growing up in poverty, we didn’t have fathers in the house,” said Mill. He is also a co-owner, with Rubin, of Indianapolis-based Lids, the largest hat retailer in North America.
“It’s all PTSD,” said Mill, who in August received the Nelson Mandela Changemaker Award from global business group PTTOW! (Plan To Take On The World) for his work with Reform Alliance, the parole and probation organization he cofounded in 2019 with Sixers co-owner Michael Rubin. I have to watch it on YouTube to remember the feeling.” I don’t even remember being at the Sixers game or how it felt emotionally. “Everything was moving so fast, it was like a big blur to me. “I don’t really remember that day,” Mill said, speaking on the phone last week from New York. It’s the first by the 34-year-old rapper and criminal justice activist since Championships, the 2018 release that came out six months after the whirlwind day when he caught a helicopter ride from Chester to the Wells Fargo Center in South Philly in time to ring the bell at a Sixers playoff game.
Mill’s new album, Expensive Pain (Maybach Music Group / Atlantic ***), is his fifth.
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It’s been more than three years since the Free Meek Mill movement came to fruition and the Philadelphia rapper was released from the state prison in Chester where he had been serving a two- to four-year sentence for a probation violation stemming from a 2007 gun charge.īut never fear: The freedom that Mill fully attained in 2019 when his cause célèbre case was finally put to rest after he pleaded guilty to a firearms possession offense and all other charges were dropped has not blunted the intensity of his music or the capacity for soul searching that has forged a deep bond with his audience.
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