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A couple of weeks ago Meek found himself in some drama after a fan from The Netherlands wrote us and said that even though she had already paid for VIP tickets, Meek told her it would be $100 to take a picture with him. When she said she didn’t have any money, she claimed he told her, “No Money, no picture.” Fans in Paris also jumped on Twitter to say the same thing happened to them, however Meek Mill is now saying it’s not him that’s charging fans, it’s his crew. In an interview with D.C. radio station, 93.9, he said he can’t help it if his crew is trying to make a quick buck but also said he doesn’t see what the big deal since artists like Beyonce and Rihanna make fans pay up to $500 for a meet and greet.

Actually, I was not charging to take pictures ya know? My homies be in the crowd and if my homie trying to make some money and you trying to get backstage, he might charge you. That’s your fault. I don’t even see nothing wrong! Beyonce and Rihanna, they charge $500 for a meet and greet. I’m bout to do a meet and greet right now free. I been doing this for years, you know what I’m saying? I take pictures everyday. I just took twenty pictures. I hang in the neighborhood. I hang in the hood. So you know it’s average to me. I come outside everyday, pictures is average to me.”

There’s a difference between a fan who knowingly paid $500 in advance to meet their favorite artist at a meet & greet, and a fan who approaches an artist after a show asking for a photo. It’s those random photo ops (which get circulated in social media), and appreciation to those fans that keep you in the game.

Meanwhile, his label boss Rick Ross is still under fire for his ‘rape’ lyrics in a new track, titled U.O.E.N.O and it’s gotten so serious that a petition has circulated requesting that Reebok drop him from his endorsement deal. It’s gained over 75,000 signatures so far. When asked about the controversial lyrics, Meek Mill responded:

I don’t even care about nobody criticizing no lyrics man. People rap about killing stuff all day man. Biggie said ‘rape your kid, throw over the bridge,’ back then and it was nothing, it was just hip-hop. Now you got all these weirdos on these social sites voicing their opinions about something anybody say. I don’t care, you know what I’m saying? I’m from the hood. I never really cared about what nobody said in no raps. Raps always been talking about killing, drugs, all types of stuff, you know what I’m saying? So you can’t just criticize no one thing nobody say man. It’s imaginary visuals. If a writer write about somebody getting raped in a movie, that mean he a rapist or he want girls to get raped? No, he just wrote about that in a movie.