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Meek Mill Apparently Leaves Jay-Z’s Roc Nation Label
Meek Mill has reportedly left Jay-Z’s label, Roc Nation. Meek Mill first signed with Roc Nation management in 2012 and began his imprint, Dream Chasers, in 2019, of which he served as president.

Meek Mill Apparently Leaves Jay-Z’s Roc Nation Label

Meek Mill is no longer sharing locations with Roc Nation. Sources tell Billboard that the rapper left Jay-Z’s label, though Roc Nation has yet to share an official statement. The only other indication of the split thus far is Mill’s erasure from the label’s website and social-media pages. Vulture has reached out to Roc Nation and Mill’s representatives for comment. First signing a management deal with Roc Nation in 2012, Mill inked a joint-venture deal in 2019 for his imprint, Dream Chasers, of which he served as president. Most recently, Jay-Z and Mill teamed up to support the “Rap Music on Trial” bill, a New York State Senate bill that would limit the use of rap lyrics as evidence in criminal cases, a practice that overwhelmingly impacts Black and brown defendants. It wasn’t the first time Hov and Mill worked on criminal-justice reform together: In 2019, the duo created Reform Alliance, a nonprofit organization made to combat unjust sentencing laws, after Mill’s controversial incarceration over popping a wheelie while on probation.

Signs that Mill was frustrated with his label were there. After the release of his album Expensive Pain earlier this year, Mill accused Roc Nation in a tweet of putting “nothing” into the project. “They didn’t put nothing into expensive pain and then said I can’t drop another project for 9 months at the end of my contract after I made them 100’s of millions,” he wrote. “How would can [sic] anybody survive that … most rappers can’t speak because they depend on these companies ‘I don’t.’” The album debuted at No. 3 on “The Billboard 200.” In other tweets, he accused the label of ruining his relationship with Roddy Ricch. “So look I made Atlantic records 100’s of millions and let them rape me out out Roddy a artist [sic] they came to me about in jail … they still saying I can’t drop music until 9 months after my last album got blackballed,” he said, continuing that “that label separated us instantly when the millions came in from him.”

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