One of my favorite parts of the beat is all the interesting people we get to speak with.

And right now I'm excited to bring on musician and rapper AASAP Ferg,

who's collaborated with some of today's biggest artists, including Ariana Grande, Nikki Minaj, and Future.

He's also a bit of a fashion entrepreneur.

He launched Traplored Clothing in 2012 and was featured in this year's World Cup ad for Adidas along with Farrell Williams

And as I know from our conversations you also get involved in policy and you were advocating for a friend and collaborator of yours meek mill

Right to get out of prison also you guys have worked together you released trap and a dream which now has over six million views on YouTube

Thanks for coming on the beat. Oh man, thanks for having me, man. Let's start with Meek Mill. He is now

out of prison. Thank God. What was it like for you watching him as a musician and a job

creator go to jail for popping a wheelie? And why were you so public in your advocacy for him?

It hit home because I grew up watching Meek.

And, you know, Harlem and Philly, we're really close as far as, like,

rapping and music.

It's sort of like a sport for us because we was battle rapping.

So to see a pair make it out of, you know, the trap, you know, the inner trappings of the neighborhoods

and kind of, you know, become big to get locked up.

And for the reasons he was getting locked up for, and us just shooting a video,

like a day before he got locked up, it was like it hit home for me.

So I was really like mom blown by it and um

i just felt like you know i have a voice and i definitely had to say something about that right

and that the idea that someone can be living on the right side of the law but have a probation

offense put them away was going to be for years Right. He's out talking about criminal justice reform.

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