#FreedMeekMill

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🗓️ 4 September 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Rapper Meek Mill was arrested on drug and weapons charges as a teen in 2007, but the case didn't close until last week. NPR's Bobby Allyn explains how a police officer and a judge helped keep Meek Mill in the criminal justice system for over a decade. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From what I can see, biking to work and stuff, kids are going back to school around this time.
0:05.0	And if they're getting into school, that means they're probably getting into projects,
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0:18.0	Visit KiwiCo.com slash explain.
0:21.0	What's good, y'all? I'm Gene Demby, one of the hosts of the Code Switch podcast at NPR.
0:26.0	And I'm sitting and showing Ramos Ramos chair, bodying all of his neck while he's on vacation.
0:31.0	He's back tomorrow.
0:32.0	Wow, I went through puberty, been way through the sense.
0:35.0	This is today explained.
0:37.0	Today, today explains, you can explain.
0:43.0	Alright, so if you're from Philly in under 40, you know Ramyk Williams, aka Meeke Mill.
0:50.0	He's tall, he wraps in a voice that sounds like a police iron.
0:53.0	Meeke is really nice with the rapity wraps and his stock and trade are verses that make you want to be people up.
0:59.0	He started getting buzz on mixed tapes and radio shows and YouTube videos back in the mid-Auts
1:03.0	when he was a teenager with dingy braids.
1:17.0	Meeke went from being a local dude with a lot of buzz to a big ass deal.
1:21.0	He went on tour with Nicki Minaj and then they started dating.
1:24.0	He was signed to regross his label and then later to rock nation, which is Jay Z's label.
1:28.0	And when the Eagles won the Super Bowl in 2018, still one of the greatest moments of my life.
1:32.0	Please welcome the NSC champion, Phil O'Jumpia Eagles.
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