In February of this year, Lil Wayne made national headlines for a lyric on Future’s “Karate Chop (Remix).” The New Orleans, Louisiana emcee-turned-mogul rapped, “I beat the pussy up like Emmett Till.” The crude simile was comparing sex to the 1955 hate-crime murder of the 15 year-old Till, for allegedly winking at a White woman in Mississippi. Following the song’s release, Emmett Till’s cousin publicly criticized Lil Wayne’s racial “pride and dignity” for the deeply insensitive lyrics.
Over two and a half months later, Lil Wayne, who was hospitalized for seizures in early March (during which time the Till family offered prayer on his behalf), has publicly apologized for his lyrics. This is the letter, as is it appeared at MissInfo.TV, is re-published below:
“Dear Till Family:
As a recording artist, I have always been interested in word play. My lyrics often reference people, places and events in my music, as well as the music that I create for or alongside other artists.
It has come to my attention that lyrics from my contribution to a fellow artist’s song has deeply offended your family. As a father myself, I cannot imagine the pain that your family has had to endure. I would like to take a moment to acknowledge your hurt, as well as the letter you sent to me via your attorneys.
Moving forward, I will not use or reference Emmett Till or the Till family in my music, especially in an inappropriate manner. I fully support Epic Record’s decision to take down the unauthorized version of the song and to not include the reference in the version that went to retail. I will not be performing the lyrics that contain that reference live and have removed them from my catalogue.
I have tremendous respect for those who paved the way for the liberty and opportunities that African-Americans currently enjoy. As a business owner who employs several African-American employees and gives philanthropically to organizations that help youth to pursue their dreams my ultimate intention is to uplift rather than degrade our community.
Best,
Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr.
Lil Wayne“
This apology follows a similar apology concerning offensive content, written by rapper Rick Ross, concerning his perceived rape lyrics from an appearance on Rocko’s “U.E.N.O.” Due to the lyrics, public petition from womens rights groups, and delayed apology, the rapper lost an endorsement partnership with Reebok which was believed to be worth as much as $5 million.
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At YMCMB, we get laid by women each night. Lil Wayne’s been a father to at least a dozen kids.
No Wait!! actually in my moms basement I get laid by my daddy, he pounds my asshole than gives it to my sister!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nobody believes you.
Weird how this apology came only after the Till family were trying to get him dropped by Mountain Dew.
truth
Yeah this just makes him look bad because months have gone by and he said nothing until the Till family was going to go after his sponsors and fuck his money up like Rick Ross.
And he didnt write that. Looks just like that publicist manufactured apology Rape Ross made.
I’m sure none of this came from him. Why wait until they want boycott MD until they drop your ass! Fuck Gayne and his crew!
It’s a dang shame it took this long to get an apology smh. Y’all should checkout thegrandreport, they be having some old stuff too
i told u son of bitches before il rip yur soul out and throw it n the floor, i seen son f a bitches get thrown on the ground with their house on te ground , i seen a dead dog i riped his head off and put it on ,im still talking to the mother fucker
what..
And it should end here. He apologized, lets move forward.
I’d like to see him actually attempt to read that. What a joke.
youve clearly never heard wayne talk
I guess his court deposition doesn’t count.
He still sounds retarded.
he only apologized because they was coming after his sponsors
Bingo….
I really hope he means that!!!
Wayne didnt write that sh*t. We all know his best material was written by someone else… down to his raps.
If he apologizes the white-skinned people will say he only did it to avoid issues with his sponsors and if he dOesent apologize they will call him insensitive.
I believe in freedom of speech and artistic expression and a world were Emenim can threaten to rape his own mother in a song.
Do you even know who Emmett Till was?
Nobody cares about eminem’s mom or what he does with her fuck that it’s obviously fiction you moron. Emmett Till is a symbol to all minorities of how cruel and unfair this world was to dark skin citizens of the USA. Wayne has the freedom to say whatever he wants its not illegal but we have the right to protest his speech and pressure corporations that use his image to influence the youth of america to drink that shit. You have the freedom to stay ignorant!!
This nigga looks like a rodent
He never really “apologized,” only said he’d never reference them again. Weak sauce “apology”, if you can call it that, and that’d be if he even wrote it himself, which I’m sure he didn’t. Personally I think this all should’ve been looked at from the perspective of entertainment, but Wayne, if you’re going to attempt to mend the wounds you opened, your team of publicity reps could’ve done better than this.
AKA “PLEASE DON’T GO AFTER MY MOUNTAIN DEW ENDORSEMENT DEAL OR MY SHOE DEAL !!!!”
Fuck this bullshit apology….He has had MONTHS to adress this situation. He getting scared cause he saw how Ross’s reebok deal got shut down. The till family said they were about to go after Mountain Dew… SO A BLACK FAMILY THAT YOU DISRESEPECTED, COUL’NT GET YOU TO ACKNOWLEDGE THEM? SOON AS THEY GO AFTER YOUR SPONSOR…YOU SAY SORRY….I BET A WHITE MAN FROM MOUNTAIN DEW CALLED WAYNE AND TOLD HIM TO APOLOGIZE OR ITS A WRAP. SHIT IS WEAK.
WAYNE IS ONE OF THE SMARTEST RAPPERS OUT THERE HE FINISHED UNIVERSITY GOT A DEGREE IN PSYCHOLOGY KNOWS HOW TO MARKET MUSIC TOWARDS PEOPLE. I BET ALL YOUR FAVOURITE RAPPERS DIDNT EVEN FINISH COLLEGE HAHA
For real I want to get paid for trolling for ymcmb 2.
Wayne didnt even finish high school. That nigga is borderline retarded. He definitely didn’t get a real degree in anything. and didn’t put in no work for a psychology degree when he was busy touring the world fucked out of his head on syrup.
This nigga claiming bullshit lol wayne did finish university he does have a degree its actually a fact stop denying it you jealous nigga. Secondly wayne isn’t dumb if he was he would be a broke ass nigga like you living in your mothers basement hating on ymcmb and trying to deny facts hahahaha.
heard your idol just had another seizure! LMAO
Wayne is not smart, just an opportunist; two different things. Mack Maine handles all of Wayne’s business.
LOOK AT THIS LOW LIFE SCUMBAG WITH NO COMEBACKS SO HE RESORTS TO MAKING JOKES ABOUT A MAN HAVING A SEIZURE. THIS TYPE OF NIGGA STAYS LIVING OF HIS MOTHERS WELFARE CHECK FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE HAHA.
You just described yourself right now.
actually it is true… wayne did graduate from a university and does have a degree… he’s actually very intelligent to be that big of a druggy
Having a degree doesn’t make you intelligent and Wayne is far from intelligent.
You obviously never graduated college, or even enrolled. Dumb ass motherfuckers graduate from college everyday. It is a $300 billion dollar industry…professors pass retarded kids all the time. It’s a business. Secondly, an undergraduate degree doesn’t make you Will Hunting. Moron.
He only did this cause he doesn’t want to lose his endorsements like Rick False did.
Emmet tills family just sensitive
no we just all mad your moms didn’t abort you
Show some respect to Emmett Till and the Till family, fuckboy. And thats coming from a hispanic.
dirty mexican
Wayne issued the appology cause he felt bad for those peasents. Trukfit is one of Macy’s best-selling brands. They wouldn’t dare remove it from thier inventory. Wayne has Macy’s by the clit and YMCMB has the rap game by the clit.
Yea sure whiteboy
I’ve never seen anyone wearing Trukfit other than Wayne himself or the rappers he makes wear it in their music videos for him to give them a verse
id like to apologize for being the same species as you
Those Trukfit clothes are collecting dust at Macy’s.
i wouldnt even wipe my ass with trukfit
@Anonymous – I actually did wipe my ass with trukfit, and it worked really well. fuk da haterz
Your white
Gille Da Kid wrote this for Lil Wayne
LMAO
LOL
So the Lil nicca had another seizure last night and had to go to the hospital.
everytime i see someone wear trukfit i assumed they sucked a niggas dik for it
then u heard d4
or pop that
everyone must be sucking dick
Well, nobody’s wearing Trukfit.
Took him long enough. He’s still garbage, but at least he apologized.
Has to be the most insincere apology in the history of apologies. This clown only cares about money, drugs, and pussy.
He didn’t have to apologize to begin with because he has the freedom of speech to say whatever the fuck he wants when he wants. This is PC bullshit.
He crossed the line and said something very offensive about someone who was killed in a hate crime. Stop defending this piece of shit, stanley.
^^^^^ no im stan, and he’s right the guy has freedom of speech and i personally think he shouldn’t have
I believe in freedom of speech, but there are certain lines that can’t be crossed and Wayne crossed that line.
LOL I doubt he wrote this.
u know that dumbass n!gger didnt fuck wayne
“Those Trukfit clothes are collecting dust at Macy’s”
He still got paid.
It’s too bad for him that all that money can’t buy health
LOL omg who puts just BEST, on a apology letter like this
lol yeah i thought that was a bit weird too
cause he is the best
at being a piece of shit.
Someone who doesn’t care how his statement is interpreted.
Wayne is 1 of the realest rappers ever.. Tru and intelligent guy
he been a child star since he was 11, was never a gangster, never a blood, never a drug dealer. so how is he real again?
Wayne is far from real, true, and intelligent.
Thank you Wayne’s lawyer lol
forced apology shit
“He crossed the line and said something very offensive about someone who was killed in a hate crime”
Did Christopher Reeve’s family cry when Xhibit made a reference about him? Don’t listen to rap music if your ears are that sensitive.
Xzibit never said anything about Chris Reeve.
Wasnt that Eminem?
it’s like christopher reeve doing the crip walk – Xzibit (Erick Sermon DJ Quik Xzibit – Focus
I don’t see how that crossed a line.
“Show some respect to Emmett Till and the Till family, fuckboy. And thats coming from a hispanic”
Was this meant to scare people? Go have a bean burrito and shut the fuck up.
funny how u didnt even reply directly to his comment tho?? n anyways he was probably tryin to say that even him a hispanic shows respect to Till (a black person). y the fuk he b threatening ppl over a computer?
stupid racist bitches these days
yo, is it me or there isnt one “sorry” in this apology. did i miss it? he never said he was sorry.
not a wayne fan but I respect this. I hope he’s being sincere
hes not though. thats why its 3 months later and sounds like it was written by a publicist. he got scared he was gonna lose that mountain dew money and made a phone call to his people to handle this
you can tell this apology was written for him by someone. He is too dumb to construct suck gramma.
um im not a fan of his music but lil wayne is actually really intelligent. youre just being spiteful
No. He’s not intelligent.
He attended the University of Houston while you stayed at home in hate. Go back to school youngster learn how to pen a letter like this.
he didnt really attend. it was just promo for the school. you think that nigga was going to class 20 hours a week staying up late writing papers? fuck outta here. he didnt even graduate high school so how the fuck would he get into university of houston. oh yeah only because he is famous.
Nicely written, PR Intern!!
Eminem – No Apologies
Kanye – Im sorry george bush… frnds?=)
Nice job to Rozay’s PR kid too, if only he’d cleared you to write up that eloquent apology for him a couple weeks earlier…
Waynes real letter:
Dear Till Families,
I is sorry for speaking bad abouts M-et. Please don’t be mad at me. I has childrens 2 and my career is almost over.
Love,
Wayne
haha wen writin the song he prob was lik “ok wat i write??.. hmm i beat that puusy like …a cat? nah i used that too much … rodney?…. been said already… ummm” *googles people that been beaten up “who da fuk is emmitt till?” YOLO ill put dat on my song”
Wayne is a fucking disgrace to music. This is proof.
Obviously your attorney wrote this shit for U. That’s insincere, ya bitch
A better apology: “Yo Till family, I Lil Wayne just wanted to say sorry for that fucked up line I said using your dead relatives name. I just be in the studio getting drunk and high and shit sounded clever at the time. But now I realize, I was a dumb mufucka for saying that ignorant shit and I’m sorry. As a token of my sincerity, I’d like U to have this $50,000 in Popeyes gift cards. I’m just being upfront, like Rosa Parks, ya dig.
LOLOLLOLO
HAHAHA holy fuck. Sad part is, that up until you mentioned the $50-large in Popeyes cards, that sounded like a much more genuine apology. 😛
People want Wayne to die so they dont have to hear his music anymore because apparently praying for the demise of another human being takes less effort than changing the radio station every now and then.
Anyways, just because someone is responsible for their own downfall, doesnt mean that you cant or shouldnt feel bad for their situation. I have sympathy for Wayne and hope he finds the strength to turn things around for himself.
Bawse!!!!!!!
i know you’re usually trolling but this time i actually agree with everything you said.
I pray every night that Ricky Rozay (the MMG stan) and William Roberts choke on a piece of crab meat and die
^really? u wanna wish death on another man b/c of his music preference? You sound like a nice person *sarcasm*
Bawse!!!!!!!!
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