Inside Meek Mill and Kanye West’s friendship after Kim Kardashian ‘hotel meeting’

Kanye West claims Meek Mill and Kim Kardashian met up at a hotel to discuss ‘prison reform’ (Picture: Getty)

Kanye West surprised his Twitter followers last night when he announced he’s been ‘trying to divorce’ his wife Kim Kardashian for the past two years, ever since she allegedly had a hotel meeting with rapper Meek Mill. 

Meek, real name Robert Rihmeek Williams, is known to have worked with Kim in 2019 when he co-founded the Reform Alliance with activist Van Jones. 

They also both spoke at the inaugural Criminal Justice Reform Summit in Los Angeles in November 2018, which was held at the Jeremy Hotel.

But what is known of Meek’s relationship with fellow rapper Kanye? 

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Are Kanye West and Meek Mill friends? 

Kanye, 43, and Meek, 33, have never worked together on music but, of course, being in the same industry they have mixed in the same circles over the years and seemed to respect each other. 

Kanye said he ‘respects’ Meek Mill (Picture: Twitter)

In 2012, Kanye also hosted a free download of Meek’s song Burn on his now-defunct but previously very active website. 

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What happened between Meek Mill, Jay Z and Kanye? 

Jay Z came under fire in 2018 for his rap verse on Meek Mill’s song What’s Free, which many assumed to be a diss towards his former best friend Kanye. 

He raps: ‘No red hat, don’t Michael and Prince me and ‘Ye/ They separate you when you got Michael and Prince’s DNA.’ 

The backlash prompted Jay Z, 50, to post a very rare tweet explaining the true meaning behind the lyric. 

‘The line clearly meant don’t pit me against my brothers no matter what our differences are (red hat) now go pick up Meek album,’ Jay Z said. 

Questions loomed over whether Meek supported what many saw as a ‘diss’ towards Kanye, but the rapper later cleared the air. 

Speaking to CNN host Michael Smerconish at the time, Meek explained: ‘I don’t think he really goes after Kanye. 

‘I think he actually just says, “Don’t let him separate us like they did Michael Jackson and Prince” basically. Kanye came out of nowhere and just went “red hat”, and that was kind of like against everything we represent.’ 

There are now concerns over the state of Kanye and Kim’s marriage (Picture: WireImage)

He continued: ‘I don’t know what [Kanye] represents, but coming up in the hip-hop community, we came up fighting and fighting for our rights for a long time. What that red hat represents doesn’t really represent what we’ve been fighting for our whole lives.’ 

What did Kanye say about Meek Mill? 

Since his emotional presidential campaign rally last weekend, Kanye has embarked on a series of concerning Twitter rants. 

In one of his latest tweets, Kanye wrote: ‘I been trying to get divorced since Kim met with Meek at the Warldolf for “prison reform”. 

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‘Meek is my man and was respectful… That’s my dog… Kim was out of line.’ 

Meek is yet to speak out about the comments. 

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