An avid football fan, he played the Raiders theme song, ”The Autumn Wind,” every morning before work, and he watched the Detroit Lions play football every Sunday afternoon. Brent also played on the Farmington Harrison High School Football Team during its championship games in the early 2000s. During his time at Wayne State University, Brent became an honored member of The Gamma Iota Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., and he played on the Warrior Football team before he opted to pursue his full-time career. However, more than all of these things that were dear to him, Brent deeply loved his family.

He was preceded in death by his mother, Frances; maternal grandmother, Effie; and paternal grandmother, Roberta (Bobbie). Brent leaves behind his father, Gordon Mills; brother Scott (Tunisha) Mills; Daughters, Cameron and Phoenix Mills; Uncle, Greg Mills; Aunt, Gwendolyn Thompson; and the love of his life, Nakia Mills, along with a host of cousins, great aunts, great uncles, friends and colleagues.