On the remix of Future's Karate Chop, Lil Wayne rhymed- "Beat that pussy up like Emmett Till." For those that don't know who Emmett Till is/was, he was a 14 year African American boy that was brutally murdered in Mississippi for flirting with a white female. At the time, Racism was still at its heights especially in the Southern part of the U.S. For Wayne to use something that sensitive in a rhyme greatly upset the Till family. Emmett Till was actually beaten to a pulp for whistling at a white lady...beaten to death.
Below is what Emmett Till's cousin, Airickca Gordon-Taylor had to say-
“To compare his murder and how beaten and how bullied, beatened, and tortured he was to the anatomy of a woman was really very disrespectful,” said Taylor in a video posted on RapRadar.com. “We found it dishonorable to his name and what his death has meant to us as a people and as a culture. It was offensive not only to us, but to our ancestors and to women and to themselves as young, black men. I just couldn’t understand how you could compare the gateway of life to the brutality and punishment of death. And I feel as though they have no pride and no dignity as black men.”
“Our family was very offended, very hurt,” Taylor revealed. “Disturbed by it…Our young people they emulate what they see, what they hear, and what they’re immersed in. And then we question them as they grow up and become citizens and they’re supposed to be productive in society and they’re not productive. And society is already criminalizing our young, black men at every opportunity they have. So it just really concerns us that here you are using Emmett Till’s name in such an egregious way and you’re not having any respect for yourselves as well as our family. And that’s the biggest concern. We’re concerned about our young people as well as the image of Emmett Till.”
At this point in his career, it is evident that Lil Wayne has nothing more to talk about than pussy, sex, and more pussy. Every single verse he has dropped in the last 2 years has been nothing but that...so, I understand the Till family's concern.
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