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Emmett Till, a black 14-year-old Chicago boy, who was brutally murdered near Money, Mississippi. (AP Photo/File)/ Lil Wayne (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Till family calls for meeting with Lil Wayne

Chris Talbott, Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) - The family of Emmett Till says a letter from Lil Wayne fell short of an apology for his crude reference to the civil rights martyr...
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Emmett Till, a black 14-year-old Chicago boy, who was brutally murdered near Money, Mississippi. (AP Photo/File)/ Lil Wayne (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Lil Wayne pens letter to Till family

Kyle Harvey
theGRIO REPORT - Lil Wayne has finally apologized to the family of Emmett Till after over a month of dealing with criticism over his vulgar verse where he used civil rights icon’s savage killing as metaphor for sexual intercourse...
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Emmett Till, a black 14-year-old Chicago boy, who was brutally murdered near Money, Mississippi. (AP Photo/File)/ Lil Wayne (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Emmett Till's family pens open letter to Lil Wayne

Kyle Harvey
theGRIO REPORT - The document, which was given exclusively to Vibe, the Till family asks Weezy to think before he speaks and to take ownership of the power of his celebrity status...
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Singer Stevie Wonder performs onstage during the 19th Annual Race to Erase MS held at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza on May 18, 2012 in Century City, California (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Race to Erase MS)

Stevie Wonder not happy with Lil Wayne's Emmett Till lyric

Jonathan Landrum Jr, Association Press
ATLANTA (AP) - Stevie Wonder is not happy with Lil Wayne's vulgar lyrics that reference Emmett Till, a black U.S. teen whose murder in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman changed the national conversation on race and civil rights...
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Emmett Till, a black 14-year-old Chicago boy, who was brutally murdered near Money, Mississippi. (AP Photo/File)/ Lil Wayne (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Emmett Till’s family reacts to Lil Wayne lyric

Chris Talbott, Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A cousin of the late Emmett Till wonders if Lil Wayne understands just how damaging it was when he rapped a vulgar reference to the black U.S. teen...
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Rapper Lil Wayne watches the game between the Duke Blue Devils and the Kentucky Wildcats during the 2012 State Farm Champions Classic at Georgia Dome on November 13, 2012 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)

Lil Wayne's Emmett Till lyric offends, gets pulled by Epic label

Chris Talbott, Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) - Epic Records says it is making "great efforts" to take down a new Future remix with a vulgar Lil Wayne lyric that has offended the family of a black U.S. teenager whose murder in the 1950s for whistling at a white woman helped to change the national conversation on race...
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