Not even the dark skinned chicks disses by Lil Wayne enraged me to this level...
It is this that really did it for me:
"Pop a lot of pain pills/ 'Bout to put rims on my skateboard wheels/ Beat that pussy up like Emmett Till."This is a lyric from Lil Wayne's leaked new track 'Karate Chop [Remix]'.
The lyric garnered a lot of attention because it was downright offensive, especially to Emmett Till's relatives. They've described the song as 'dishonourable' and 'offensive'. Epic Records apologised and took the right course of action by dropping the lyrics from the song.
But this should have never happened.
Emmett Till was a 14 year old African American boy who got dragged out of his bed and was brutally murdered for allegedly whistling to a white woman. During the funeral, Emmett Till's mother requested for his casket to be left open so that Emmett's mutilated face could be seen by the world.
Till's death acted as a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement.
The lyric in the song in question demonstrates just how much rap has depreciated over the past decade alone. Many rappers today (mainly the mainstream ones) simply have no respect or conscience.
How lyrically deficient do you have to be to use the name of a minor who was brutally murdered and use that to describe some sexual act?
If it weren't for Emmett Till's death, would we even have a post-Civil Rights America?
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