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‘This Is My Boss Year’: Meek Mill Becomes Co-Owner Of Sports Apparel Retailer Lids

‘This Is My Boss Year’: Meek Mill Becomes Co-Owner Of Sports Apparel Retailer Lids

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In this April 2, 2019 file photo, recording artist Meek Mill speaks at a gathering to push for drastic changes to Pennsylvania’s probation system, in Philadelphia. Kim Kardashian West, Nipsey Hussle, Common, Kevin Hart and other celebrities are speaking out for prison reform. Mill has become a symbol for reform after a judge in Pennsylvania sentenced him to two to four years in prison for minor violations of his probation in a decade-old gun and drug possession case. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Meek Mill, 32, is on a mission and he doesn’t seem to be slowing down any time soon. The Philly MC and activist for criminal justice reform is now adding corporate ownership to his wheelhouse as co-owner of sports apparel retailer Lids, reported Rap-Up.

Lids is the largest retail seller of hats and licensed sports products in North America. In an exclusive interview with Business Insider, Mill said he was inspired by billionaire hip-hop mogul Jay-Z to invest and Lids seemed like a great company to do so.

“I’ve been shopping at Lids my whole life, wearing hats, fitteds, of course, fitted hats and caps, all types of hats. In our culture, it’s been a big thing. So, it was something I ain’t have to think twice about and always believed in, that it’ll work.,” Mill said.

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Real name Robert Williams, Mill said he has ”studied” fellow Reform Alliance founder Jay-Z’s road to being a billionaire.

“He’s just a different type of guy. He’s about his business. He’s never late, he’s on point. He’s checking on his business every chance he gets. Basically, I’ve seen Jay-Z, and then I’ve watched other artists who came up around his time. He actually built something. He built businesses, and he built things that made him become the man who he is, that we could call a billionaire guy. He built that, and I watched that, and I studied that. That’s why I’m working the way I’m working now to build a foundation for myself too.”

As co-owner, Mills will also lead the company’s creative strategy and release a limited-edition collection of hats for Lids in August, People reported. Mills also has an upcoming docuseries entitled Free Meek due to be released on Amazon in August.

“You know, this is my boss year. A lot of what I’m doing, I’m trying to get ownership in a lot of things to where I can still live comfortable the way I was living in my prime years as a rapper. I’m just trying to build a foundation of some good businesses that’ll keep me living good,” Meek said.

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