Meek Mill was allegedly held hostage by gang members and forced Rick Ross to pay $50,000 ransom
Gang member Luce Cannon has alleged that Meek Mill was once taken hostage by Los Angeles Crips, with Rick Ross being asked to pay $50,000 to free him. Cannon made the claims on an episode of Akademiks‘ Off the Record podcast, in which the Rollin’ 60s Neighborhood Crip recalled the alleged incident at a nightclub in LA.
“We caught him at the club where he was performing at,” he said. “As soon as he walked in, all of the security that was with him, they spun around. I grabbed cuz like, ‘Bro, wassup?’ I said, ‘Get on the phone with Ross.’ We grabbed the n*gga and took him outside, and we waited.”
According to Cannon, the hostage situation occurred after Meek had been “talking real reckless on Twitter.”
After allegedly grabbing Meek, they contacted his Maybach Music Group boss, Ross, to give them the five-figure amount in cash to let him go.
Ross allegedly obliged, with Cannon claiming he would have been “in the trunk” if not. The reason Meek was targeted was “because we needed that bag. He didn’t owe no money; we took the money. It’s not extortion. It was just a business transaction.”
He also said the incident strengthened Meek’s relationship with Nipsey Hussle. “That’s why Meek and Nipsey became cool after that situation because they started using the same PR,” he said. “Meek got smart and started hitting Nipsey up, and that’s why the Big U feud kept going with Nipsey.”
Cannon was recently arrested alongside Nipsey’s former manager, Big U, and over a dozen others as part of an operation against the Rollin’ 60s Neighborhood Crips. Charges filed against the alleged gang members include murder, human trafficking and extortion.