Free Meek: Review

9.3.19

If you don’t have Amazon Prime, find someone that has Amazon Prime. You know how you share your cousins, neighbors, sister-in-law’s, boyfriend’s Netflix account? Figure it out.

In early August, Meek Mill and Jay-Z launched a five episode series ‘Free Meek,’ which can be watched on Amazon TV, free for Prime users. The documentary series is about Meek’s path to his current freedom; but the insight to his journey, and the learned injustice is unbelievable. 

Some fans may know, that Meek caught his original case when he was 19 years old. I knew this, and that it had to do with a gun. However, I had no idea, that the police filed a report arresting Meek Mill on nineteen different counts of misconduct. The story the police gave? Meek walked right out of his own house, pointed a gun at the cops, and was carrying cocaine to be distributed. Real life? Meek was leaving his house to go to the store for him and his cousins. He was carrying a gun because of the amount of friends he’d lost on the streets, and didn’t want to be unprotected in the dark. If Meek had pointed the gun at those cops - who do you think would have shot first?

Now, you can go ahead and say whose actually telling the truth, where is the proof? Well, after receiving an initial 10 years of probation, Meek Mill managed to partake in 26 court appearances, 8 probation hearings, 3 probation violations, all with zero new crimes committed. Meek’s legal team [and his friends and family] need to get to the bottom of this case. To do so, they’ll have to get the initial trail thrown away. We all know about how Meek popped a wheelie and got arrested a day later for it, being sentenced to 2-4 years by the same pestering judge that was just mad he wouldn’t give her a shout out in a song. 

We hear from Jay-Z, Michael Rubin, various Roc Nation members, family members, and more about how awful this lawsuit is. Meek Mill and team even started a Reform alliance, to help free wrongly convicted inmates, and bring justice to the system. What was super interesting, were the various investigators that were hired to find proof to turn around Meek’s case. The judge will not back down, but how about a fake claim from the cop who arrested Meek Mill in the first place? The investigators spoke to a former police officer who had been on site the day of Meek’s arrest, and well, he spilt all the tea! I won’t get into the details and paperwork, you need to watch this documentary. However, it was incredible, and proved the arresting officer was not a reliable to source to be contacted about the case. Without his opinion, evidence is minimal, and the case is gone. Meek is free. 

Did you know that 99% of officers don’t get arrested for their killing of humans? Did you know that 52% of cops say that they will side with another cop, even if they know for sure, that is wrong? 2.2 million people are incarceration, and 4.5 million, are on some kind of probation supervision. 160,000 of those incarcerated are there for violating parol. Bonds for white people, are shown to be significantly lower than other races. Over 50% of defendants, are stuck in jail because they cannot afford their $5K bond. The system is cruel, unusual and unjustified. Are you looking to hurt others that aren’t like you? Is this an action for more money because you know some will make bail? Whatever the case may be, Meek Mill and team are surely onto something. 

I’d like to quickly add how great Meek Mill was throughout this documentary. We had three different outfit changes during his interview pieces. The first was a black Fendi tracksuit. The second was a matching denim jacket and pant set that had some white paint splatter on the bottom of each garment - with Timbs of course. And finally a blue Milano track suit with some white sneakers. For growing up with all his male cousins in Philly - the fame did his fashion sense quite well! We see Meek getting his hair cut immediately upon [one of] his release from jail. Sitting in the chair talking about his interactions, he just started rhyming. A lot of this later became a verse for Lord Knows on Dreams Worth More Than Money. I love that, when an artist is just living their normal life, but the music comes out. A true passion for his craft. We saw Meek freestyle and get into battle rap at the age of thirteen. He now has a son who talks about finishing his own album, as well. When Meek was in jail, the parades in his honor were overwhelming with the support and love from his fans. I think the series overall did a great job showing who Meek Mill is, where he came from, telling his truth, and how he plans to help out others in regards to the topic that got him in trouble with the law for years on the end. The only additional thing I could have asked for from the series would be a TIP interview about how insane this case was - but I’m sure we’ll continue to hear plenty from the King as long as these unjustified cases are happening.