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Meek Mill Explains How Nipsey Hussle Influenced Him To Stay Away From The Hood

By MyReligionIsRapAdmin

Posted on December 26, 2019

Meek Mill recently sat down with Charlamagne Tha God while in the Bahamas for a no-holds barred interview. After discussing JAY-Z’s mentorship, police brutality, and the extent of his opioid addiction, Meek touches on his friend, collaborator, and fellow Atlantic Records signee, Nipsey Hussle. Meek states he and Nip were 20-30% done with a joint project.

At the 59:00 mark, Charlamagna states,

“Let me ask you about Nipsey, man,…We’ve seen people from the hood turn on their own people who are trying to do better. Do you think it is possible to be devoted to the hood without putting yourself in danger?”

Meek responds,

“It depends what type of hood. Where I come from, our murder rate is 365 people a day. There’s 365 Black people getting murdered around here every day. If you’re a rapper, it brings attention to you. It brings more attention to you in those type of [senarios]…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.”

“It’s just tricky. If I go to my neighborhood right now, you got some dudes that’s just [full] of so much self-hate in ’em that they’re gonna try me, and I don’t play with ni**as like that…I don’t play with bullies. I don’t know if y’all been following me my whole [rap career, however] when I lay down at night, and I see people trying to bully [other people], that sh*t pop up in my mind like, ‘He won’t do that to me.’ like, I’ve always been that type. So when I’m comin’ back to the hood, and I’m makin’ millions and actually changin’ my mind-frame, [there] is something always in the back of my head that wants to take on them type guys. And that sh*t’ll be my downfall. So the best thing for me to do is to stay [away].”

In the past Meek was known for visiting neighborhoods all over Philadelphia. The Philly rapper goes on to state,

“Me and Nipsey got different mind-frames. I think we was alike in certain ways, but we got two totally different mind-frames. 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…The police got on bulletproof vests and guns, so why should I come back with all these millions, trying to help lift sh*t up [where] it’s all dangerous. Naw. If you gonna play that. I got bulletproof trucks and everything. I believe that the hood will kill you. I believe that.”

After touching on their joint project, Meek states, “[Nip] impacted me to make a change from sh*t like [what negatively goes on in the hood]. No young kings should be gunned down in the hood. He’s a legend just for that. You made it out, and you got gunned down by a lowlife. You a legend; you showed kids that you can make it out, and someone [from] where you come from will pull you back and take your life. I guarantee you that Nipsey probably touched hundreds of millions of children from the ghetto. They know deep down that they will have their life took if they try to pursue their dreams [while trying] to stay in the hood. Just that message alone.”

“Nipsey made me fall back from the hood. If they try’na kill us and do sh*t to us that bad, [then why go]. That’s how they doin’ us. You see these rappers, they’re gettin’ shot, killed. I’ma carry it that way. I’ma come bulletproof; I’ma come protected everywhere I can. But if I gotta do all that, another solution is to just [move away] from that sh*t…Some of us have survivor’s remorse when we make it out from those group of people. He probably ain’t wanna leave those people. He had to die there to send his message, and really get his message [and] life calling across. I don’t know what it is! I don’t never think he had to die! I think that was a mistake on all levels, but he might’ve felt that. ‘I ain’t leavin’ my hood; I’ma lift my sh*t up.’ And that was his calling. That’s why he’s a legend. Just that alone. You don’t have ni**as that’s gonna stay in they neighborhood knowin’ it’s dangerous, knowin’ you might be killed nine times out of 10… he impacted me; he let me know I could die. He let me know I could change any law for [people that look like me], you could give away a million dollars—a billion dollars—you still might get smoked by somebody that look like you over some bullsh*t. He taught me that. So he taught me how to move better, to keep on being a legend, and inspiring me to be successful and make moves better, that’s just enough—in my book, personally.”

On a side note, the following interview is a Charlamagna Tha God production which gives more credence to the idea that The Breakfast Club may be headed for a split. Catch the interview below.