Master P sat down with “The Breakfast Club” this week and gave one of the most emotionally raw interviews of his career, opening up about the loss of his daughter Tytyana Miller, brother Kevin Miller, watching his mother go silent with grief, and the grandmother, Maxine Miller, whose tough love pulled him out of the streets for good. The No Limit Records founder has built a legacy on turning pain into purpose, and this conversation showed exactly where that instinct comes from.
When asked how he helps parents navigate the pain of losing a child to substance abuse or violence, Master P was honest that he still does not fully understand that grief himself, but he pointed to faith and community as the starting point. He specifically recommended Christian counseling over general therapy, explaining during the interview that pairing spiritual guidance with professional support gave him something a standard counselor could not offer. For P, healing had to come from a place that understood both the psychological and spiritual weight of losing someone.That question was especially personal because Master P lost his daughter, Tytyana Miller, in May 2022. According to reporting based on findings from the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner Coroner, Tytyana’s death was ruled an accidental fentanyl intoxication. Her cause of death became public months after the family first announced her passing. Tytyana had previously been open about struggles with substance abuse, something she discussed with her father and brother Romeo Miller on television. Her death later became a major part of Master P’s advocacy around mental health, addiction, communication between parents and children, and the devastating reach of fentanyl.
During his “Breakfast Club” conversation, P explained that his grief over Tytyana did not disappear once he began helping other families. Instead, he said losing his daughter pushed him to think about the thousands of families dealing with similar losses without the attention or resources his family had. He spoke about seeing parents who could not afford to bury their children and said he began helping cover burial expenses. He also said the mission connected to Tytyana’s memory now centers on helping families communicate, understand what their children may be facing, and recognize how dangerous fentanyl has become.
The interview turned even more personal when he brought up his own brother’s death and what it did to his mother. That brother was Kevin Miller, one of P’s younger brothers. Kevin was killed in New Orleans in 1990. Kevin was killed in a robbery and that Master P and his former wife Sonya later helped raise Kevin’s son Veno Miller. In the interview, P described his mother going quiet, withdrawing from conversation entirely in the aftermath, and said watching that shift in her is what pushed him to change his own life. He did not want to put her through more loss, and he said knowing his mother would be proud of the direction he eventually took became part of what kept him accountable. That kind of grief, the kind that steals a parent’s voice, is something Master P clearly still carries with him decades later.
The deceased brother he referenced was Kevin. His incarcerated brother is Corey Miller, better known as C Murder, who remains imprisoned in Louisiana. As of 2026, Corey Miller is serving a life sentence following his second degree murder conviction in the killing of 16-year-old Steve Thomas, a conviction Miller has continued to challenge. The Louisiana Supreme Court rejected his latest request for post conviction relief in February 2026.
That grandmother ended up being the turning point in his story. Her name was Maxine Miller, the woman P affectionately called Big Mama. P and Kevin were raised in the Calliope Projects with their father and paternal grandparents, Claude and Maxine Miller, in a home that often included numerous relatives. Master P shared two moments involving Maxine during the interview that stuck with him for life. The first was almost funny in hindsight. She caught him with a car he was not supposed to have, at a moment when she herself was still catching the bus to work. When she found out the Audi parked up the block belonged to him, she took a bat to the windows on the spot, angry that he had brought that kind of attention to the block. He had tried to hide the car two blocks away specifically so she would not know, but a neighbor eventually told her everything.
The second moment was heavier. Maxine woke him up one morning with a black dress laid out over the nightstand. When he asked if she was going somewhere, she told him plainly that the dress was for his funeral, a warning dressed as a statement of fact. P said that single moment made him understand how close he actually was to losing his life to the streets.
He credited that tough love directly for the direction his life eventually took.
“I got a brother dead. I got a brother incarcerated. Family members dead. Incarcerated friends. Like, this real life for us. And to be able to make it out the project and to have fans… this a blessing,” he added.
His story also makes clear that success did not erase the losses that came before it. He made it out of the Calliope Projects, built No Limit Records into one of the defining independent rap empires of its era, and created opportunities that once seemed impossible from where he started.
