Lil Wayne
The family of slain civil rights teen, Emmett Till, asked soda giant
Mountain Dew, to drop rapper Lil Wayne from a sponsorship deal, over
lyrics in his song "Karate Chop." In the song Wayne raps,
" Pop a lot of pain pills, 'bout to put rims on my skateboard
wheels ... beat that p***y up like Emmett Till." Many were
outraged at the lyric, deeming it made light of the innocent
15-year-old's horrific, brutal death in 1955.
Emmett Till
Wayne wrote a letter to the Till family, but they rejected it
stating the contents did not constitute a real apology. Mountain Dew
agrees with the family and has dropped the Young Money rapper from the
lucrative endorsement.
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