{"id":21053,"date":"2013-05-06T15:22:08","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T19:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=21053"},"modified":"2013-05-06T15:22:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T19:22:08","slug":"lil-wayne-dropped-by-mountain-dew-over-disrespectful-emmett-till-lyrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=21053","title":{"rendered":"Lil Wayne Dropped By  Mountain Dew Over  Disrespectful Emmett Till Lyrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Orleans based entertainer <strong>Lil Wayne<\/strong> has become the latest rapper to grovel at the the feet of his corporate sponsors in hopes of not getting kicked off the plantation, and in the words of the <strong>Emmett Till<\/strong> family \u2014 he fell \u201cshort.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mountain Dew, a PepsiCo company, has dropped<strong> Lil Wayne<\/strong> as a sponsor because of backlash he received for comparing slain teen, <strong>Emmett Till<\/strong>, to a mangled vagina in <strong>Future\u2019s <\/strong><em>\u201cKarate Chop\u201d (Remix)<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Orleans based entertainer Lil Wayne has become the latest rapper to grovel at the the feet of his corporate sponsors in hopes of not getting kicked off the plantation, and in the words of the Emmett Till family \u2014 he fell \u201cshort.\u201d Mountain Dew, a PepsiCo company, has dropped Lil Wayne as a sponsor [&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-21053","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\/21053","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=21053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}