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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