{"id":483514,"date":"2019-03-17T09:55:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T15:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=809256"},"modified":"2019-03-17T09:55:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T15:55:16","slug":"meek-mill-see-first-teaser-for-amazon-docuseries-free-meek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/meek-mill-see-first-teaser-for-amazon-docuseries-free-meek\/","title":{"rendered":"Meek Mill: See First Teaser for Amazon Docuseries \u2018Free Meek\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-17-at-8.01.35-AM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/meek-mill\/\">Meek Mill<\/a> revealed the first teaser for his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv\/tv-news\/meek-mill-jay-z-announce-docuseries-on-flaws-in-criminal-justice-system-629002\/\">upcoming docuseries <em>Free Meek<\/em><\/a> during the rapper\u2019s sold-out performance at the Met in his native Philadelphia amid the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philly.com\/entertainment\/meek-mill-day-philadelphia-20190314.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Meek Mill Weekend<\/a>\u201d celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>The preview, which was also uploaded to YouTube, features snapshots of concert footage, documents from the case as well as the mugshot from his 2007 arrest, while a voiceover says, \u201cI have never seen a case built on less.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rapper, born Robert Rihmeek Williams, is also seen giving a confessional in the clip about his experience. \u201cI never really looked at it as a nightmare, I looked at it as real life for a black kid in America. This is real life,\u201d the rapper says in the teaser.<\/p>\n<p>The forthcoming Amazon docuseries \u2014 executive produced by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jay-z\/\">Jay-Z<\/a>, Eli Holzman, Aaron Saidman and Paul and Isaac Solotaroff \u2014 will follow the rapper\u2019s fight against the criminal justice system as he attempts to clear his name following his incarceration for violating probation from a prior conviction in November 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Free Meek<\/em> is an upcoming documentary series that will follow Meek and his fight for exoneration while exposing flaws in the criminal justice system,\u201d Amazon wrote. \u201cThe series will give viewers unprecedented access to the star\u2019s life, career, and criminal justice odyssey, while demonstrating the negative effects long tail probation is having on urban communities of color.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The six-part docuseries, which was announced in May 2018, will premiere later this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/meek-mill-free-meek-docuseries-teaser-809256\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meek Mill revealed the first teaser for his upcoming docuseries Free Meek during the rapper\u2019s sold-out performance at the Met in his native Philadelphia amid the \u201cMeek Mill Weekend\u201d celebrations. The preview, which was also uploaded to YouTube, features snapshots of concert footage, documents from the case as well as the mugshot from his 2007 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-483514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 12:58:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}