Meek Mill Recalls His Time Spent In Jail

Meek Mill is a millionaire right now, all from rapping. But he would have gone down the wrong road, if he didn't have some time to reflect on his life while in Jail for almost two years. He is 25 years old right now, and was locked up when he was just 18.





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"I was 18, just turned [into] an adult when I went to jail," he said, explaining the event that completely changed his life in MTV's "This is How I Made It." "I caught a case and had 57 charges. Young guys that get caught with a gun — they're gonna automatically charge you up. All I did was walk outside with a gun."

Meek's time in jail made it clear to the Philadelphia emcee: he needed to change his direction in life. "In jail you ain't got nothing to do but sit in there and think all day."

Meek explained how his time in prison helped develop his dedication to making music. "I just [didn't] wanna die, I [didn't] wanna get shot or get life in jail because that's the usual script. I ended up going about 20-something months and realized that wasn't the place I wanted to be."

"I really put my life into rapping," he added. "They let me out on house arrest and the judge gave me permission to go to the studio, and that taught me another lesson because every day [I was] going straight to the studio for 12 hours straight and I started putting up six songs a day for three months straight — that's what gave me my little jump start." (hiphopdx.com)