Meek Mill Pens Father’s Day Letter: “I Get To Give My Son The Life I Never Had”

The rapper wrote about the importance of fatherhood for Time.

June 19, 2015
Meek Mill Pens Father’s Day Letter: “I Get To Give My Son The Life I Never Had” Mike Coppola / Getty Images

Earlier this year, Time recruited mothers—most notably Beyonce's mom—to write open letters to their children. This Sunday is Father’s Day, so Time got Meek Mill to pen a letter about being a dad. Meek touches on the joys of fatherhood—“Being able to give [my son] anything he wants is one of the best feelings in the world”—as well as the fears: “The fact that no one can teach you how to be a father means you are always learning on the job.” The MC also talked about struggling to balance his work life with his domestic responsibilities. “I always explain to [my son] that everything I do, I do for him,” Meek writes. “All the shows, all the nights in the studio, I do with my son in mind.”

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Read the whole letter here, and check out FADER’s cover story on Meek.

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Meek Mill Pens Father’s Day Letter: “I Get To Give My Son The Life I Never Had”