Emmett Till

People are really upset about a line that YMCMB’s front man Lil Wayne said on Future’s song “Karate Chop (Remix).”  On the song Lil Wayne says “Beat that pu**y up like Emmett Till.” For those of you who don’t know, Emmett Till was a young African American male who was brutally beaten and was shot by white males. He supposedly was flirting with a white woman. I’m pretty sure that what happened to Emmett Till was not the first occurrence of something like this happening, and not the last(especially back then in the segregated south). But Emmett Till was the face of these type of events and made people realize (black and white) that this needs to stop.

Lil Wayne always has some shocking lyrics in his song and I would not expect anyone to be surprised by anything that he says. I personally feel that there is a line that should not be crossed when creating music(especially lyrically), but on the other hand I feel that I see people crossing that line every day. If we go after Lil Wayne for this lyric, we would have to go after other artist as well. And this creates other problems such as censorship hindering the creative process.

The problem with this line is that someone from the family did not like the reference that Lil Wayne made about their loved one. That makes this a personal problem. And I honestly don’t understand what they would want other than a apology, which is well deserved.

In conclusion, I feel that the lyric was crossing the line, but I feel that there is nothing we can do about it but make it be known that it was a little too much.  Everybody is not going to like every line a rapper writes, so for people who feel disrespected this should be treated as one that they didn’t like and we should all be able to move on.