Meek Mill's gearing up to release his new album Dreams Worth More Than Money, but the MMG MC is also getting ready to celebrate Father's Day. On Friday (Jun. 19), the Philly rapper wrote an op-ed for Time about fatherhood.

"As a father, now I get to give my son the life I never had," Mill said. "I love my son with all my heart, and I would do anything for him. It’s a crazy feeling knowing that I will help him become a great man."

While Mill celebrates fatherhood now, he couldn't always enjoy Father's Day growing up because of his dad's tragic death.

"I never had a strong male figure in my life," he said. "I didn’t have that person to teach me things fathers teach their sons because my father was killed when I was young. It was just me, my mom, and my sister, so I had to be the man of the house. When I was younger, I remember being able to speak to my father and then in the blink of an eye, he was gone.

"My mom played the role of both mom and dad," he added. "We had nothing growing up, so my mom worked any job she could find to provide for me and my sister. I love her so much for that. But as much as I appreciated everything my mother did for me, she couldn’t fill the space that a father should hold in a child’s life."

The tragedy of his father's death - which is described on Meek's 2012 song "Traumatized" - now serves as a reminder of how meaningful quality time with his son is. "Growing up without a father made me realize just how special time is with my son and how much of an impact I can have on his life," he said.

Amen.