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T.I. Got Jeezy To Quit Dealing

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During a recent Drink Champs interview, Jeezy talks about how he was influenced by Tip to focus on his music career instead of dealing.

Recently, Jeezy has been thinking a lot about the past.

Jeezy had been dealing cocaine since he was 11. He openly worked with the Black Mafia Family and even regularly showed up in their promotion videos. However, he did not sign with their label. Instead, he went with Def Jam. BMF’s co-founder, Big Meech, does not seem too fussed about this in retrospect.

How Jeezy left the drug game

While Jeezy was working on his major label debut, “Let’s Get It: Thug Motivation 101”, he was pulled aside by Tip to the bathroom. Tip did not want the conversation to be overheard. Jeezy was told to just focus on his music career. Tip told him that he can’t do both. He can’t deal drugs and make music. Things will not end up well if he continues down this trend.

Jeezy knows that Tip was also a drug dealer and asked about that. Tip told him that he had already quit that line of work a long time ago.

Tip did not need a wake-up call. In 1999, when he got his chance to escape the dealer lifestyle, he immediately took it. He only dealt drugs as a necessity. When his music career took off, he never looked back. He then used his time on the streets to invent trap music as we know it.

Jeezy took the advice to heart, much to the ridicule of his friends, since it is hard to get a successful music career. However, he got the last laugh when his music played on the radio.

Jeezy uses that time of his life for musical influence. He raps about what he knows and hustling is all that he knows.

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Mac Miller’s Drug Dealer Sentenced To Almost 11 Years In Prison For Selling Fentanyl-Based Pills

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On Monday, Apr. 18, one of the drug dealers charged with a fentanyl overdose, which led to Mac Miller’s death, was sentenced to almost 11 years in prison.

According to Rolling Stone, Ryan Michael Reavis, 39, appeared before a Los Angeles federal court. The defendant admitted to providing fake oxycodone pills to another dealer that, in turn, killed Miller in September 2018. However, Reavis stated that he had no idea the pills contained fentanyl.

Mac Miller’s Drug Dealer Requested A Shorter Prison Term

Reavis sought a sentence of five years, while the prosecutors were seeking 12.5 years. However, after hearing an emotional statement from Karen Meyers, Miller’s mother, U.S. District Judge Otis D. Wright II decided that Reavis would serve ten years and 11 months.

“My life went dark the moment Malcolm left his world,” Meyers’ statement read in part. “Malcolm was my person, more than a son. We had a bond and kinship that was deep and special and irreplaceable. He would never knowingly take a pill with fentanyl, ever. He wanted to live and was excited about the future.”

 

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In his defense, Reavis didn’t know Miller died from the pills he provided until a year later during his arrest in Arizona.

“This is not just a regular drug case,” he told the court. “Somebody died, and a family is never going to get their son back. My family would be wrecked if it was me. They’d never be all right, never truly get over it.”

Possession Of Firearms And Drug-Related Accessories

According to the prosecution, Reavis had three guns during his arrest in Lake Havasu. There was an untraceable “ghost gun” and boxes of ammunition, “digital scales covered in heroin and methamphetamine residue,” blank prescription pads, and baggies. It also appears he continued to sell drugs after Miller’s death, as evidenced by a 2019 text. Despite knowing the risks associated with fentanyl.

The text read, “People have been dying from fake blues left and right, you better believe law enforcement is using informants and undercover[s] to buy them on the street do [sic] they can start putting ppl in prison for life for selling fake pills.”

Furthermore, Assistant U.S. Attorney Elia Herrera told Judge Otis, “Defendant knew that people were dying from fake blues left and right. He knew that people were being put away in prison for life for dealing them. Defendant was not worried about people dying left and right. He was worried about getting caught.”

Sentences For Two More Dealers

Ultimately, Reavis received three years of supervised release with drug testing and a lengthy prison term. Following a guilty plea in October, 48-year-old Stephen Andrew Walter faces 17 years in prison after pleading guilty to supplying Reavis with fentanyl-laced pills. However, a case against co-defendant Cameron James Pettit is still pending. Federal authorities allege that Pettit supplied Miller with ten oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl, cocaine, and the sedative Xanax, which led to his death.

FMHipHop sends its thoughts and prayers to the Miller Family. Peace be with Mac Miller.

 

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Mac Miller’s Drug Dealer Claims Ignorance Over Fatal Pills

Two men have entered guilty pleas in distributing the fentanyl-laced drugs that killed rapper Mac Miller.

48-year-old Stephen A. Walter and 38-year-old Ryan M. Reavis entered their respective pleas yesterday (Tuesday, November 20) in Los Angeles, California. Both men pleaded guilty to one felony count of distributing fentanyl, per The New York Post.

Speaking to Judge Otis D. Wright, Walter claimed to have never met Miller before. “I never met [Miller] before. I only talked to Cameron [James Pettit].” He continued, “I didn’t know what his intentions were with the pills. After he saw Ryan Reavis, I didn’t know what he was going to do with them.”

Furthermore, Walter admitted that he did sell “counterfeit oxycontin”, but did not know what the pills actually were. He stated, “…I didn’t know what was in them. I didn’t know, like, fentanyl was in it. But I do say, yes, that I aided and abetted the transaction.”

Reavis, whole also participated in the transaction, remained quiet throughout the proceedings. The 38-year-old got the fentanyl-laced pills from Walter, and then gave them to Miller. However, prosecutors claim that Walter did know the pills contained fentanyl. Reavis is scheduled to return to court on April 4, 2022. Walter will face sentencing on March 7, 2022. Walter and Reavis both face up to 20 years in prison, along with a $1 million fine.

 

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