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          Rapper Lil Wayne had made a vulgar reference to Till's death.!

          Executive Producer and director Keith Beauchamp speaks out against the disrespect shown to civil rights martyr Emmett Till (background) in Lil Wayne's newest.

        1. Born and raised in New Orleans, he was discovered by hometown rapper Birdman in and signed with his record label, Cash Money Records, at age eleven.
        2. Rapper Lil Wayne had made a vulgar reference to Till's death.
        3. On the original version, Lil' Wayne, whose real name is Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., compared rough sex to the murder of year-old Emmett.
        4. Emmett, 14, had traveled to visit relatives in the Mississippi Delta, where he was abducted by two white men.

          5. Emmett Till

          African American lynching victim (1941–1955)

          "Death of Emmett Till" redirects here. For the song by Bob Dylan, see The Death of Emmett Till.

          Emmett Till

          Till in a photograph taken by his mother on Christmas Day, 1954

          Born

          Emmett Louis Till


          (1941-07-25)July 25, 1941

          Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

          DiedAugust 28, 1955(1955-08-28) (aged 14)

          Drew, Mississippi, U.S.[1]

          Cause of deathLynching (bullet wound and mutilation)
          Resting placeBurr Oak Cemetery, Alsip, Illinois
          EducationJames McCosh Elementary School
          Parents
          AwardsCongressional Gold Medal (posthumous, 2022)

          Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was a 14-year-old African American youth who was abducted and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store.

          The brutality of his murder and the acquittal of his killers drew attention to the long history of viol