Lil Wayne has finally addressed his controversial lyric from Future's "Karate Chop (Remix)" referencing Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American boy who was beaten and killed in 1955 for whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. The lyric, "“Beat the pu**y up like Emmett Till,” was pulled by Epic Records from the remix in February.
The Till family, however, has pushed for Mountain Dew to drop Lil Wayne. Wayne finally issued the family a written apology which you can read in full below:
