He is out-of-pockeet for this one.
Reports HipHipWired:
Over the weekend, Future dropped a remix to his “Karate Chop” track that features Lil Wayne. During his verse, Weezy dropped a disrespectful punchline that used the name of Emmett Till. The family of the then 14-year-old Black boy that was murdered in 1955 in Mississippi for whistling at a white woman is none too happy about said line.
On the “Karate Chop (Remix),” Weezy raps, “Beat that p-ssy up like Emmett Till.”
For the record, the late Emmett Till wasn’t just beat up. After being kidnapped, he was beaten on throughout the night, shot and then tossed into the Mississippi River with a 7o-pound fan tied around his neck with barbed wire to keep his body from floating back up. Till’s corpse did eventually rise and was found a couple of day later by two boys fishing. Despite his head and face being heinously mutilated, his mother demanded to have an open casket at her son’s funeral so everyone could see what was done to her child.
Till’s murder was a catalyst for the Civil Right Movement, which in turn helped Wayne maintain his lavish lifestyle today.
Activist and scholar Dr. Boyce Watkins spoke to a representative of the Till family named Airickca Gordon Taylor (listen to the full conversation below). “We found it dishonorable to his name and what his death has meant to us as a people and as a culture,” said Gordon Taylor. “It was offensive not only to us, but not only to us but to our ancestors and to women and to themselves as young, Black men. I just don’t understand how you could compare the gateway of life to the brutality and punishment of death. And I felt as though they have no pride and no dignity as Black men.”
Wayne isn’t the first rapper to use Emmett Till’s name in a suspect line. In 2004, Remy Ma made an off color remark about Till’s face on Terror Squad’s “Yeah Yeah Yeah.”
Watkins and others are making a call to action about lyrics like these having ill effects on consumers.
ThyBlackman.com reports:
Rev. Jesse Jackson and his associate, Bishop Tavis Grant of the Rainbow/Push Coalition have spoken up on the matter, and I’ve promised to give them my support. Hip-hop music is one of the most powerful and persuasive art forms in the history of the world, and it is now being used to enslave the minds of young black people so that they might become food for the prison industrial complex. Lil Wayne’s reference to till is just the latest effort to dumb down black America and to produce messages that are nothing short of disgustingly toxic.
Many potential black male father figures have been extracted from our community and sent to the concentration camps of the prison industrial complex, given dozens of years for sometimes minor offenses. All the while, their sons grow up without fathers, and are taught on the radio how to get high and drunk every day, to kill other black men, and to disrespect the black women who raised them. Lil Wayne’s music is a reflection of this reality, as a man who is as brilliant as the great Malcolm X has been convinced to use his powers for evil rather than good.
And now…the video.
This is EbenGregory.com…telling you men are respectable only as they respect. On another note, when you devalue ethics and morals by proclaiming that our attitude toward them should be casual or lenient, you can’t be surprised by a rising generation who then behaves disrespectfully; treating life, people, and choices as if they possess little value or worth. For whether or not that was the intention, society has taught them to believe thusly. But some of y’all won’t get that.
No race on earth other than the black race will sell their soul and be controlled by white master, still their slave boy like that little runt into saying something as horrific about their women and use a victim of a lynching whose pictured horrified the world. Its sad how black are being manipulated through rap/crap to self destruct and set back.
yeah wayne outta line… but did dat n word Al jus compare him to Malcolm???
we need to occupy that n words mic.
Rappers kill me when they say “we are not role models.” That’s what Hip-Hop was about. Hip-Hop IS dead and our culture is following. Jews, Asians and other cultures respect their history and would NEVER say something disrespectful about their ancestors like that. Hip-Hop in its current perversion is killing the black community.
Dr. Watkins is that dude!!
The sad thing is these rappers who mention Emmett Till’s name know what happen to him. The entire story. How else would you be able to use his name as a reference in a rhyme. Blatant disrespect. And the ppl who quote these rhymes have NO IDEA what they’re saying. Blind leading the blind. My grandfather was 11 living in Tyler town, MS when Emmett Till was murdered. I can only imagine the fear of being young, African American & male.
A good book to read ” breaking the chainz of psychological slavery” Nai’m Akbar or ” hip-hop versus mâat ” Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu
peace
My father told me my grandmother took him to see the open casket viewing of Emmett Till’s grotesquely disfigured remains when he was 9 years old. My grandmother told him “see son this is what they will do to you”. He said that was something he would remember forever. Message to wayne: Some things are sacred. Being born and bred in the south you should know that..
Co-sign that message.
This is the role model of youth and ignorant “adults” these days. Lil Wayne? So tragic.
Rappers are sell outs to the highest degree nowadays.
I’ve never been a huge fan of this character.
Obviously he didn’t have a strong male figure, and I doubt his mother or any other adult taught him black pride by encouraging him to learn anything about black history or anyone’s history for that matter. He barely even knows what going on in present time.
This is what happens when you’re surrounded by yes men.
Also, when black ppl who don’t like the word nigga use it, this is what we’re talking about.
“Beating up the block, yeah I get my Emmett Till on” – Da Drought 3
Come on really? This is the exact kind of talk I heard many men in the gay community spew. Hint: The industry is ran by misogynist white supremacists who are homosexual. They constantly disparage women and promote violence. Their intent is to corrupt heterosexual relationships by slowly and methodically programming boys and young men to treat women horribly. Boyce Watkins made excuses for him saying he could mean “beating up a vagina” figuratively. THIS IS STILL WRONG!! So if he didn’t use Emmett Till reference he wouldn’t have received any backlash? So then the message to Lil Wayne and his cohorts is you can say anything you want to about women no matter how vile it is. But when it comes to historical figures, it’s off limits. This shouldn’t be tolerated at all!!
On POINT.
Last time I checked, Lil Wayne wasn’t the moral center of the universe. Gordon Taylor says “I felt as though they have no pride and no dignity as Black men.”… to which I say “No Sh!t Sherlock”
Kanye mentioned Till first. Never heard anything about that. Smh
@Noneya Bizness – Priceless…….
Just cuz you’re a home owner doesn’t mean you can’t be a house n word! #StepNfetchitboy