Mountain Dew Drops Lil Wayne Over Emmett Till Lyric

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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.

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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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Rapper Lil Wayne is clearly going through something, because he is going from one offensive PR crisis to another. First he got into a dispute with the NBA's Oklahoma Thunder, in demanding free courtside tickets, while being loud and unruly. He was denied and went on a tirade over the incident.

The next basketball related incident occurred when Wayne attended a game featuring the NBA's Miami  and Los Angeles Lakers. Wayne began heckling the Miami Heat, then making gun signs with his fingers, which prompted police to visit his section and talk some sense into him. Wayne claims they told him to leave, the league denied the claim, stating he chose to go.

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Then Wayne went on another tirade, using expletives on Twitter to complain about the Heat. He wrote a string of f-words regarding the team's top players. Not content with the bad publicity and criticism he brought on himself, Wayne went to the NBA All Star Celebrity weekend in Houston, Texas and crudely told the audience that he had sex with Adrienne Bosh (nee Williams), presumably before she married Heat player, Chris Bosh.

Now an old rap song has surfaced featuring a diss directed at Adrienne, stating she scammed Wayne out of money, claiming she needed it for cancer treatments. None of Wayne's claims have been confirmed or addressed by Adrienne. However, he has apologized for insulting the top player in the league, the Heat's Lebron James.
 

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This was just a fraction of Wayne's offending spree as he inexplicable include crude lyrics in his new song "Karate Chop" staying of the late 15-year-old civil rights era murder victim, Emmett Till, "Beat that p**** up like Emmett Till." The teen was brutally beaten to death and dumped in a river by two racists enraged that he flirted with a white woman.

It is clear Wayne is in need of mental help. All his talk about the devil and the Illuminati, coupled with the drugs he is taking, has turned him into an angry, confused person, lashing out at the world, while offending many.