Lil Wayne writes to family of Emmett Till
May 1, 2013 5:16PM
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Updated: May 2, 2013 2:31AM
It took more than two months, but Lil Wayne finally has reached out to the family of civil rights icon Emmett Till. In a letter, he said he wanted to “acknowledge your hurt” about his lyric referencing the 14-year-old black Chicagoan beaten to death for whistling at a white woman in Mississippi in 1955. — B.Z.
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