Meek Mill was allegedly held hostage by Los Angeles Crips and needed to be bailed out by Rick Ross for $50,000, in accordance with resurfaced claims made by gang member Luce Cannon.
In a beforehand recorded interview on Akademiks’ Off the Report podcast, Cannon claimed the incident came about at an L.A. nightclub in response to Meek “speaking actual reckless on Twitter.”
“We caught him on the membership the place he was performing,” Cannon recalled. “As quickly as he walked in, all of his safety spun round. I grabbed him like, ‘Bro, wassup?’ I mentioned, ‘Get on the cellphone with Ross.’”
Cannon alleged that he and his crew took Meek exterior and demanded $50,000 in money from Ross for his launch. When requested if Meek would have been “within the trunk” had Ross not paid, Cannon responded, “Yeah, after all.”
Regardless of admitting they “took the cash,” Cannon denied that the scenario was extortion. “We would have liked that bag. He didn’t owe no cash; we took the cash. It’s not extortion […] it was only a enterprise transaction.”
Cannon additionally recommended that the incident finally strengthened Meek’s friendship with L.A. native and fellow Rollin’ 60s member Nipsey Hussle, indicating that it occurred a number of years in the past.
“That’s why Meek and Nipsey grew to become cool after that scenario,” Cannon defined. “They began utilizing the identical PR. Meek bought sensible and began hitting Nipsey up, and that’s why the Large U feud stored going with Nipsey.”