There's an unfortunate reality when it comes to Meek Mill's perception by the casual music observer: his name has often been in the headlines for reasons well outside his body of work. I saw myself in him.The essential playlist from the venerable Philly rapper's sprawling catalog. 'I'm never one to talk (at funerals),' Mill said of his protege Lil Snupe. Mourners showed up to Snupe's funeral three hours before it was to begin, while Meek Mill sat with dark sunglasses for the majority of the service. 'Like with that bounce flow, all over the place, he really can spit, and he was talking that talk that I can really relate to. 'He was spittin' so much pain, he's from the south with a flow like an east coast guy,' Meek said. Meek turned around to get back to Lil Snupe, and the 17-year-old was signed to the MMG rapper's label within the hour. They let the window down, grabbed the mixtape and it was like 10 minutes later, 20 minutes later they called me,' Snupe told MTV News back in February. And I went and knocked on the van, on the window. 'He was in a van, they was finna pull off. Lil Snupe passed along a demo tape as Meek Mill was leaving. Snupe burst onto the rap scene after a chance meeting with rapper Meek MIll during a tour stop at Grambling State University. Shortly after his death, Lil Snupe was mourned as an up-and-coming rapper who was making the most of his big break.

The Winnfield City Police Department said they received calls about gunshots at the Maplewood Apartments just after 4 am, and when they arrived found Lil Snupe with two gunshot wounds to his chest. Holden as a suspect, and he was captured by police. Reports said he was shot after a dispute over a video game turned violent. Lil Snupe, born Adderran Ross, was gunned down June 20 in Winnfield, Louisiana. The funeral brought hundreds of people to the Jonesboro-Hodge High School auditorium, so many in fact that the rapper's family had to move the funeral from 11 am to 1 pm.

Lil Snupe was laid to rest on Saturday, a funeral so overflowing that people showed up three hours early to mourn the teenage rapper.

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