ohhhla;5818679 said:
Ight, that was no near vicious as what Wayne said.
@Chicity
You fouled, bruh.
It was not nor was it meant to be.
My point was, here is a lyric by a established artist (@ the time) that not no buzz. Nobody acknowledged the parallel.
No spokeperson from the TIll family reached out and said "Thanks Game for keeping the memory of our family alive."
No little kids was running around spitting this lyric. Shit went relatively unnoticed.
Damn near every one of y'all that are offended are saying the same shit, young black kids
should know who Emmett Till is but the reality is they don't or @ least they didn't. Our reaction to the lyrics made that possible. Kids, ain't listening to you, they not listening to me, they not listening to they parents or teachers or ppl of authority, they listening to Wayne and how others react to Wayne.
Regardless of the original message behind the lyric, guess what, Emmett Till is being talked about again. Kids are researching who he is, because again they weren't aware who he was before, place the blame on whoever u may.
The lyric *and mind you not the first lyric of Emmett Till by Lil Wayne* brought Emmett Till to life and the reaction for the lyric made it positive because @ the end of the day, his fans are searching for why the lyric had such a backlash, why he got dropped from endorsements, why old heads are spitting on Wayne in the media.
That's all I'm saying