MUSIC GIST: MEEK MILL'S LEGAL ISUES AND WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT HIM

ABOUT MEEK

Robert Rihmeek Williams (born May 6, 1987), also known professionally as Meek Mill, is an American rappe. Born and raised in Philadelphia, he started his music career as a battle rapper, and later formed a short-lived rap group, The Bloodhoundz. In 2008, Atlanta-based rapper T.I. signed Meek Mill to his first record deal, after leaving T.I's
Grand Hustle Records, Mill signed with The Boss, Rick Ross 's Maybach Music Group (MMG). Mill's debut album, Dreams and Nightmares , was released in 2012 under MMG and Warner Bros. Records. The album, preceded by the single " Young & Gettin' It ", debuted at number two on the U.S. Billboard 200. He launched his own record label, Dream Chasers record in October 2012. He was verdicted to two to four years in prison on November 2017 for violating parole but he served four months at the State Correctional Institution – Chester in Chester, Pennsylvania , before being released while his trial continues.

Meek Mill was from a poor family, his father was killed when he was five, he was killed on an attempted robbery. His mother, Kathy Williams took his elder sister and him to North Philadelphia were she raised him up. His interest in hip hop grew up after getting acquainted with Grandmaster Chill, a disk jockey who was his uncle. He was influenced  by rap artist like Will Smith, Dj Jazzy Jeff, Vodka and Chic Raw.

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LEGAL ISUES
Mill was arrested for illegally possessing a firearm and assaulting a policeman when he was 18 years old. He was put on probation. Since then, he has been arrested four times for parole violation. 

In 2008, Mill was sentenced of drug dealing and gun possession and was sentenced to eleven to twenty - four months  in prison. Mill was released in 2009 under a five-year parole agreement. In December 2012, Mill was found to have violated his probation and the judge revoked Mill's travel permit. 

In May 2013, Mill was again found to have violated his probation and was ordered to take etiquette classes. The violation was a failure to report travel plans as required and social media postings that resulted in death threats to the judge, Assistant District Attorney (ADA) and probation officer assigned his case. In requiring the classes and stressing the requirement to report travel, the judge noted, "You need to try to get this right next time. In June 2013, the court noted that Mill continually failed to report his travel plans. The judge established an August deadline for the classes, noting that Mill has "a lot of issues" and that the classes would provide him with a "big-picture perspective" of his personal and professional actions. The judge stated the classes were "more important than any concerts he might have." Of the requirement to provide travel plans to his probation officer, Mill complained, "You just gonna miss money all day." The ADA explained that it was a consequence of being on probation. On July 11, 2014, Mill had his probation revoked and he was sentenced to three to six months in jail. [53] He was released from prison on December 2, 2014. 

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He was found guilty for a parole violation again on December 17, 2015. The judge hearing his case refused to give him another chance and ordered him not to work or perform before his sentencing on February 5, 2016. He was sentenced to 90 days of house arrest on February 5. The sentence became effective from March 1 during which he was not allowed to work and was required to do daily community service with groups serving adults. Additionally, he was also sentenced to six more years of probation. On June 2, 2016, Meek Mill was sentenced to eight additional days of house arrest. His house arrest came to an end in mid-June 2016. 

On March 11, 2017, Mill was arrested at a local airport in St. Louis, Missouri for assaulting two pedestrians. Shortly after his arrest and court appearance, he was given a court summons. 

On November 6, 2017, he was sentenced to two to four years in state prison for violating his parole. 

On November 29, 2017, Meek Mill and Roc Nation were sued by the family of Jaquan Graves who was shot and killed in the parking lot outside a Connecticut concert in December 2016. Graves had just left the facility when gunfire started and he was killed. The lawsuit also claimed that Meek and Roc Nation allowed "thugs" to remain on the premises after exhibiting disorderly, disruptive, argumentative, angry and agitated behaviorsegal issues

Reports alleged that there was an investigation by the FBI into the conduct of the judge presiding over his case. This was later publicly acknowledged by Mill's defense team. Meek's attorney, Joe Tacopina, made several allegations of inappropriate statements and actions from the judge, including that "she requested he re-record a Boyz II Men song and shout her out, and how she wanted him to leave Roc Nation to sign with a friend of hers" and that "She showed up at his community service" when a typical judge would not do that, among several other irregularities.

On April 24, 2018, Mill was released pending the outcome of his trial after an appeal to the Pennsylvania supreme court. The Philadelphia district attorney had petitioned Judge Brinkley for his release citing credibility issues with the arresting officer in his initial