Lil Wayne has been getting a lot of hit in the last couple of days. First it was the Till family, now the legendary Stevie Wonder. Wayne had rhymed- "beat that pussy up like Emmett Till" on the remix of Future's Karate Chop song. By the way, Emmett Till was a 14 year old African American boy who was brutally beaten to a pulp, shot in the head and dumped in the Tallahatchie River for whistling at a white female in Mississippi back in 1955. Racism was at it's heights in America back then, especially in the southern part. Emmett was a young kid from visiting from Chicago on holidays. The case of his death was taken to court, but no arrests were made even though the culprits were known.
Read what Stevie Wonder has to say about this below-"You can't equate that to Emmett Till. You just cannot do that," he explained. "I think you got to have someone around you that - even if they are the same age or older - is wiser to say, 'Yo, that's not happening. Don't do that'...sometimes people have to put themselves in the place of people who they are talking about. Imagine if that happened to your mother, brother, daughter or your son. How would you feel? Have some discernment before we say certain things. That goes for me or any other writer." (hiphopdx.com)
Future's label, Epic Records has already pulled the song (karate chop) out of circulation.
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