{"id":22597,"date":"2013-07-18T15:48:10","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T19:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=22597"},"modified":"2013-07-18T15:48:10","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T19:48:10","slug":"lil-wayne-apologizes-to-emmett-tills-family-at-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=22597","title":{"rendered":"Lil Wayne Apologizes To Emmett Till\u2019s  Family At Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lil Wayne<\/strong> saw critical backlash \u2014and lost his Mountain Dew endorsement \u2014 because of his infamous line, \u201cbeat that pu\u2014y up like <strong>Emmett Till<\/strong>,\u201d on Future\u2019s <em>\u201cKarate Chop.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Though he issued a written apology to the <strong>Till<\/strong> family in May, the YMCMB rhymer felt it appropriate to send his regards again during a recent performance. It all went down at the Nashville, Tenn. stop of his America\u2019s Most Wanted Music Festival.<\/p>\n<p>As the band played the track\u2019s sweeping melody, <strong>Weezy<\/strong> swapped out the original line with \u201cI apologize to the family of <strong>Emmett Till<\/strong>. Two fingers in the air,\u201d before continuing his verse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lil Wayne saw critical backlash \u2014and lost his Mountain Dew endorsement \u2014 because of his infamous line, \u201cbeat that pu\u2014y up like Emmett Till,\u201d on Future\u2019s \u201cKarate Chop.\u201d Though he issued a written apology to the Till family in May, the YMCMB rhymer felt it appropriate to send his regards again during a recent performance. [&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-22597","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\/22597","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=22597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}