Master P is using his family’s tragic loss as a driving force in his life’s work. The Hip-hop star sat down with CBS Morning host Gayle King on Friday to talk about the passing of his 29-year-old daughter, Tytyana Miller. He also discussed how he is working to raise awareness about mental illness and substance misuse.
During her time on Growing Up Hip Hop, Tytyana addressed her battle with addiction, which she had been suffering for nearly a decade. In May, she succumbed to a drug overdose. She was 29 years old at the time.
“It’s hard. Coming from poverty, you would think that you would outlive your kids and that was the mission,” Master P, born Percy Robert Miller Sr., told King. “I feel like, going to my daughter’s funeral, I went to my own funeral.”
Master P has nine children with Sonya C, including Romeo, 32, Itali, 23, Inty, 29, Vercy, 30, Hercy, 20, and Mercy, 16, all of whom he shared with the former actress. Cymphonique, the 25-year-old daughter of the music mogul from a previous relationship, is a big part of his life.
When he learned about Tytyana’s death, the rapper described it as the “worst phone call a parent could hear.”
“My sympathies go out to everybody who lost a child,” the father of nine said. “I said, ‘I’m gonna turn my pain into passion and I’m gonna turn it into a purpose because I can’t get my daughter back.’ I love her and think about her every day, and it took me and my family to go through something that I just can’t stop thinking about but I realize that I have to get out here and help and save other kids.”
Tytyana had just completed rehab and was trying to stay on “the right road” when he talked about her commitment to improve herself. The 29-year-old had even been working on a book, according to him.
“I feel like I could have done more. But you never know,” he admitted, adding that the family had been hopeful for Tytyana’s journey after nine years of battling her addiction. “My daughter had a lot of life left in her. She was a happy woman that knew that tomorrow she could do something better.”
Master P and his family have learned a lot from this experience, the most important of which is to love fully in the here and now. After all, “you never know who’s going to come back once you walk out that door,” he said to anyone who happened to be watching.
According to the rapper, “We look at mental illness and substance abuse — it’s serious and affects everyone,” the rapper continued. “Just a little dose of fentanyl can take your life, destroy a family. A mother on the news today talked about her son being a good kid and he went left one time and bought a pill and he killed himself.”
As a result, he says, he understands the desire of parents to provide a better life for their children than they have had. He talked about how he views his children, in particular his son Romeo, as heroes who have the power to influence the people who come after them.
“When I got that phone call I realized my daughter is never coming back, and that is the heartbreaking thing about this,” he said. “I said, ‘Let me team up with these organizations and doctors.’ I want to help people that look like us. We want to bring awareness to [mental illness and substance abuse]. My whole purpose is to get out here and help and save millions.”
Master P provided a single piece of wisdom for families in need: “Talk about it. Don’t hold this a secret. When you talk about mental illness and substance abuse, people don’t want to say, ‘This happened to my kids.’ But this is happening to all of us.”
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T.I. and Tiny’s son, King Harris, was detained on August 31. This prompted the 18-year-old to post a series of videos in which he responded to allegations that he was trying to pass himself off as a gangster.
The videos sparked an immediate outcry, with many people demanding that Tip do a better job of parenting his son so that he wouldn’t have to squander his future for internet fame.
As was previously reported, it was unclear what led to the arrest of the teen.
The Atlanta rap star eventually responded with an Instagram post, warning his critics that their admonitions were ignored.
“Got a small request,” T.I. said. “Stop hitting me and getting in my comments, telling me what to tell King, okay? I know my son. Think I ain’t spoke to my son? Think I ain’t told my son, his mama, and his grandmama?” he began.
“His a– going to prison if he godd— keeps up. His a– going to prison. Ain’t no way around it. Ain’t nothing I’m going to be able to do it about it. Can’t nobody stop it but him. I’ve already had the conversation, I’ve already made my peace with it. ‘Cause I know that energy — I was that energy. I know exactly how it’s gonna turn out.”
Next, he said, “King’s a good kid. He’s chasing after the wrong s— and I trust in God to deal with it the way he see fit… Now, he going have to go through it and get through it… Life is gonna teach him all the lessons he need to know.”
King had previously addressed the arrest in a video, saying that he had not sought out police intervention. The young man, then 18, began attacking those who had called him out, and he questioned why the blogs that had reported on his arrest had ignored his most recent music release as Kid Saiyan.
Another viral video included a young woman proudly displaying her seatbelt violations while King can be heard stating, “got four.”
Meek Mill’s exit from Roc Nation has been addressed for the first time by Jay-Z. Hov appeared on DJ Khaled’s GOD DID and contributed a verse to the song of the same name. Jay-Z has more than four minutes to say his views on the eight-minute track, which also features Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, and John Legend. He starts off by mentioning that he thinks LeBron James should join the ranks of Hip-few Hop’s millionaires.
“Hov did, please, Lord forgive me for what the stove did/ Nobody touched the billi’ until Hov did,” Jay-Z confidently rhymes. “How many billionaires can come from Hov crib? Huh/I count three, me, Ye and Rih/Bron’s a Roc boy, so four, technically.”
“Me and Meek could never beef. I freed that ni**a from a whole bid, Hov did,” the rapper boasts during his 4-minute verse.
Timed to coincide with Meek Mill’s exit from Roc Nation after a decade together is this new verse. Taking to social media on July 11 to set the record straight, Meek stated that his exit was amicable.
“All I seen today was meek and roc part ways. I’m personally handling my own business, so I can take risk and grow,” Mill clarified in his first of a series of tweets. “We came to that agreement together. I have a label deal with Roc for my artist, and I got reform super tied with them and many other investments wit Jigga.”
People see through the jokes to the truth Drake has been proclaiming about himself for years: he won’t change who he is or try to be anyone else.
Paraphrasing a fan “I’ll never forget that Aubrey Graham is an actor whose biggest part to far has been Drake, as @KevCole6 put it on Twitter. With this, his musical legacy is secure. When the dust settles, he will undoubtedly go down as one of the most iconic figures in hip-hop history”. The man behind the music, however, is, hmm, unconventional.
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