{"id":19640,"date":"2013-02-18T15:59:19","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T20:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19640"},"modified":"2013-02-18T15:59:19","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T20:59:19","slug":"stevie-wonder-not-happy-with-lil-waynes-emmett-till-lyric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19640","title":{"rendered":"Stevie Wonder Not Happy With Lil Wayne\u2019s Emmett Till Lyric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA\u00a0 \u2014 <strong>Stevie Wonder <\/strong>is not happy with <strong>Lil Wayne\u2019s<\/strong> vulgar lyrics that reference <strong>Emmett Till<\/strong>, 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.<\/p>\n<p>The R&amp;B legend says the rapper\u2019s disturbing verse should not have made it beyond the recording studio for the world to hear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t equate that to <strong>Emmett Till<\/strong>,\u201d <strong>Wonder<\/strong> said. \u201cYou just cannot do that. \u2026 I think you got to have someone around you that \u2014 even if they are the same age or older \u2014 is wiser to say, \u2018Yo, that\u2019s not happening. Don\u2019t do that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wonder<\/strong>, who says he is a fan and friend of <strong>Lil Wayne<\/strong>, made the comments when asked what he thought of the controversial lyrics in an interview Thursday.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA\u00a0 \u2014 Stevie Wonder is not happy with Lil Wayne\u2019s 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. The R&amp;B legend says the rapper\u2019s disturbing verse should not have made it beyond the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}