Prince Wilburn: Everything You Need to Know About His Life, Background, and Story

Here’s the uncomfortable thing nobody says out loud: Prince Wilburn hasn’t done a single thing to be famous. He was born. That’s it. And yet here we are, in 2026, with dozens of websites running long-form “biographies” of a 13-year-old who can’t legally consent to any of it, because his father is a Grammy-nominated rapper who tweets “Pray for Her” instead of, apparently, buying his kid school clothes.

Let’s sit with that for a second before we move on.

Quick Bio

Detail	Info
Full Name	Prince Wilburn
Date of Birth	December 5, 2012
Age (2026)	13 years old
Birthplace	Conflicting — Atlanta, GA or Duluth, MN across sources
Father	Nayvadius DeMun Wilburn (Future)
Mother	Brittni Mealy, entrepreneur and social media influencer
Siblings (paternal half)	At least 8, from multiple mothers
Child Support (current)	$5,000/month, ordered July 2023
Court Order Breached	$500,000 life insurance policy, overdue since Aug. 2023
Father Contact (as of 2026)	Allegedly none in 16+ months, per Brittni Mealy

What This Story Is Not

Every website you’ll find covering “Prince Wilburn” does the same thing. They open with “he is a rising star” or “an emerging talent” and then spend 800 words talking about his father’s discography. Some of them — and I want you to understand this is genuinely shocking — give him a birth year of 1990, or 1995, or 2001. As in, he is simultaneously a grown adult rapper and also a 13-year-old child, depending on which SEO content farm generated the page.

That’s the first thing worth knowing about Prince Wilburn: he is almost entirely defined by what other people say about him, very few of whom appear to have actually looked anything up.

The Boy Behind the Legal Filings

Prince Wilburn entered this world in December 2012. His mother, Brittni Mealy, is a businesswoman — she runs a clothing line called Unicorn Universe, she’s active on Instagram, she’s built something of her own outside of being Future’s ex. That context matters. She is not a passive figure in this story. She’s the one raising Prince. She’s the one suing in Fulton County Superior Court. She’s the one who, in August 2021, posted screenshots to her Instagram stories showing what she claimed were text messages Future sent directly to their then-seven-year-old son.

The texts, if real, said this: “Tell your mom to buy you some clothes. Your mother is a hoe.”

To a child. In a text message. Future’s response to the public blowup? He tweeted two words: “Pray for Her.”

I’ve read that timeline several times and it still lands the same way every time.

A Timeline That Moves in Circles

Here’s where the story gets genuinely complicated, and most “biography” articles don’t bother going here.

Brittni and Future apparently got together around 2009. Prince was born in 2012. By 2014 — the year Future was briefly engaged to Ciara and then that whole thing exploded too — the court had already set child support at $3,000 a month. Not enormous for a rapper of Future’s profile, but it held for nearly a decade.

Prince’s eighth birthday party. Brittni throws a superhero-themed celebration. Future attends. Something goes sideways. Brittni later says publicly that Future told their eight-year-old son “f*** him” during the event. Future doesn’t directly deny it. He goes quiet, as he tends to do when these things surface.

Then comes August 2021 — the texts, the Instagram posts, the “cruelty to children” accusation. Brittni says Future hasn’t seen Prince in several months despite being in the same state. Future’s mother apparently posts indirect responses on social media. Brittni tells her “be quiet, you barely raised him.” It spirals.

Future tweets “Pray for Her.” That’s still his answer to all of this. He has not publicly said anything substantive about his son’s welfare across any of these incidents.

The Money Fight Nobody Frames Correctly

In 2022, Brittni’s lawyers start examining Future’s financial records. The original 2014 agreement pegged $3,000 a month as fair. Her argument — a solid one, legally — was that Future’s income had grown dramatically since Prince was a toddler. Court documents from the 2023 proceedings revealed he was earning approximately $30,000 per month. Brittni was earning around $14,000. A judge agreed that the child support needed to increase and ordered it raised to $5,000 a month.

Here’s the thing people miss: $5,000 a month from a man reportedly clearing $30,000 a month. That’s one-sixth of his income going to one of his nine children. Think about that math for a moment. If you divide his documented earnings across every child with the same ratio, we’re looking at a number that gets uncomfortable fast.

And then it gets worse. The 2023 court order also required Future to open a $500,000 life insurance policy with Brittni as trustee — so that if something happens to him, Prince is financially protected. The compliance deadline was August 12, 2023.

By March 2026, the policy still didn’t exist.

Brittni filed a new petition. She wants him held in contempt. She wants him jailed until he complies. And she dropped the most serious claim in all of it: Future, she alleges, has not seen their son in more than 16 months. Has not called. Has not inquired about school, grades, medical needs, or anything else. Changed his phone number. Cut off contact.

Future’s response to this was to file a counter-motion accusing Brittni of leaking court documents to the press.

What The Contradictions Tell Us

I want to flag something here because it’s the kind of thing that gets soft-pedaled.

In early stages of this legal saga — the 2021 episode especially — Future cited his erratic touring schedule as the reason for inconsistent presence. That’s real; tours are real; schedules are brutal. Multiple entertainment outlets ran with that framing, treating it as a reasonable excuse. “Co-parenting is complicated,” the narrative went. “These situations are messy.” And yes, sometimes they are.

But the 2026 timeline changes the calculus significantly. Sixteen months isn’t a missed birthday because you’re on tour. That’s a pattern. And the life insurance policy — that’s not a scheduling conflict. That’s a $500,000 promise made to a court, with a hard deadline, that went unmet for more than two and a half years while the man reportedly earning $30,000 a month was flashing stacks of cash on social media during the exact same window.

The gap between the “busy rapper” excuse and the documented reality keeps widening every time court papers get filed.

Brittni Mealy Is the Story Everyone Is Sleeping On

I keep coming back to her because I think coverage has done her a disservice in a specific way. She gets described, always, in relation to Future — “Future’s baby mama,” “Future’s ex.” But Brittni Mealy built an actual business. She runs Unicorn Universe, which focuses on women’s empowerment. She is publicly raising a child whose father, by her account and increasingly by court record, is functionally absent. She’s fighting, in real time, a legal battle with a man who has significantly more resources than her.

And when she loses patience and posts a screenshot to Instagram, the media frames it as “beef.” As drama. As co-parenting messiness.

Let me just say this directly: if a father texts his seven-year-old son to call his mother a “hoe,” that is not drama. That is something else entirely.

What We Don’t Know (And Should Be Honest About)

Okay. Let me pump the brakes for a second, because I’m working almost entirely off court filings and Instagram posts, which are not the same thing as depositions under oath.

Future has not responded publicly to the 2026 allegations. His legal team is filing counter-motions, but those are about leaks, not about whether he’s actually been absent. He may have his own account of these 16 months. There may be communications or visits that Brittni’s account doesn’t include. Courts don’t always reflect the full picture, and people with lawyers know how to shape filings.

I also want to note: there is genuine conflict in the basic biographical record. Depending on which source you read, Prince was born in Atlanta or in Duluth, Minnesota. His birth year is listed as anywhere from 2012 to 2013, with some sites even listing October 6 rather than December 5 as the date. These aren’t just sloppy websites — they reflect a child who, despite years of public attention, still exists primarily as a footnote in other people’s stories.

The Actual Subject of This Article

Prince Wilburn is thirteen years old. He has curly hair. He posted an acting audition tape on Instagram at some point. He likes basketball. He went to the Burj Khalifa with his mom in 2022. That’s basically everything we know about him as an actual person — gleaned from a handful of Instagram posts, most of which are his mother’s.

Everything else in this article — the lawsuits, the texts, the absent father, the child support math — that’s not really about Prince. That’s about what it means to grow up as a prop in other people’s public narratives. It’s about what happens when your father is famous enough that your childhood becomes content, but not present enough to take you to school or pick up the phone.

The internet has built a small industry writing fake biographies of this child, inventing birth years and career arcs for a teenager who mostly just exists, quietly, with his mother in Atlanta.

That industry — and I include many of those “biography” articles in this — is extracting attention from a kid’s name while providing him nothing in return.

My Verdict

Future is one of the most influential rappers of the past fifteen years. His impact on the sound of modern hip-hop is real, documented, and deserves its own long conversation. None of that is in dispute.

But the record on Prince Wilburn, assembled from court filings over more than a decade, is not flattering. A pattern of delayed child support, disputed presence, degrading texts to a child, missed court-ordered obligations, and — if we’re taking the 2026 filings at face value — 16 months of silence. That pattern has been constructed brick by brick through legal proceedings, not through gossip blogs.

Prince Wilburn is thirteen. He didn’t choose any of this. He didn’t choose his father, didn’t choose the cameras, didn’t choose to become a recurring character in a celebrity-drama franchise. He is a child whose story is almost entirely told by other people, for other people’s purposes.

The least we can do is tell it accurately.

FAQs

1. Who is Prince Wilburn?

Prince Wilburn is the son of rapper Future (Nayvadius DeMun Wilburn) and entrepreneur Brittni Mealy. He was born December 5, 2012, making him 13 in 2026. He’s not a public figure in his own right — he’s a child.

2. Who is Prince Wilburn’s mother?

Brittni Mealy. She runs a clothing line called Unicorn Universe, is active on Instagram, and has been in ongoing legal disputes with Future over child support and custody since at least 2014.

3. Does Future see Prince Wilburn?

As of April 2026, Brittni Mealy alleged in court filings that Future had not seen Prince in over 16 months and had not called or contacted him. Future accused her of leaking court documents and has not publicly addressed the absence allegation directly.

4. How much child support does Future pay for Prince?

A court ordered Future to pay $5,000 per month as of July 2023, up from $3,000 previously. The original amount was set in 2014.

5. What is the life insurance controversy?

The 2023 court order also required Future to open a $500,000 life insurance policy for Prince, with Brittni Mealy as trustee. As of March 2026, he had allegedly not done so — more than two and a half years past the compliance deadline. Brittni filed for contempt and requested he be jailed until he complied.

6. What happened with the text messages in 2021?

Brittni posted screenshots to Instagram allegedly showing Future texting their then-seven-year-old son that his mother was “a hoe” and telling the child to have her buy his school clothes. Future responded publicly only by tweeting “Pray for Her.”

7. Where was Prince Wilburn born?

This is genuinely unclear across sources. Most say Atlanta, Georgia. Some say Duluth, Minnesota. No authoritative birth record has been made public.

8. How many siblings does Prince Wilburn have?

Prince has at least eight paternal half-siblings from Future’s other relationships, including Jakobi, Londyn, Future Zahir, Hendrix, Kash, Reign, Paris, and potentially Legend (whose paternity Future has disputed).

9. Is Prince Wilburn on social media?

He has had an Instagram presence, and his mother has shared content there. He reportedly posted an acting audition tape at some point. He’s a minor, so the details of his social media are appropriately limited.

10. What does Brittni Mealy do for work?

She’s an entrepreneur and social media influencer. Her clothing brand Unicorn Universe has a feminist focus. She’s also been involved in domestic violence awareness work and advocacy.

11. Is Prince Wilburn going to become a rapper like his father?

Every celebrity-kid article on the internet suggests this is inevitable. There’s no real evidence Prince has expressed serious interest in music. He apparently showed more interest in acting. At 13, he’s allowed to just be a kid without a career narrative being written for him.

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