INQUIRER.net: Epic to pull song with offending Lil Wayne lyric

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Epic to pull song with offending Lil Wayne lyric Feb 15th 2013, 02:41 NASHVILLE — Epic Records says it is making "great efforts" to take down a new Future remix with a vulgar Lil Wayne lyric that has offended the family of a black U.S. teenager whose murder in the 1950s for whistling at a white woman helped to change the national conversation on race.   In a version of the song leaked over the weekend, the rapper makes a sexual reference to the beating death of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Chicago boy tortured and shot in Mississippi in 1955. Till's family objected, and the Rev. Jesse Jackson contacted Lil Wayne's management, The Blueprint Group, on the family's behalf.   The label issued a statement Wednesday night apologizing fo... Keep on reading: Epic to pull song with offending Lil Wayne lyric Media files: lil-wayne.jpg (image/jpeg)

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