Lil Wayne promised the family of Emmett Till to drop a controversial line from a verse in Future’s “Karate Chop” remix, saying he would not perform the line and would have it removed from his catalog., delivered to an ex-boyfriend, “So go and tell your friends that I’m obsessive and crazy / That’s fine, I’ll tell mine you’re gay, by the way” to “ . . . That’s fine; You won’t mind if I say” after it was criticized as homophobic.
The popular single “Let’s Get It Started” from the Black-Eyed Peas was originally “Let's Get Retarded” and on the band’s 2003album before the NBA asked the song be “reworked” so it could be used in playoff promotions,After Michael Jackson’s unity anthem “They Don’t Care About Us” was condemned by Jewish leaders in 1995 for the lyrics “Jew me, sue me, everybody do me, kick me, kike me, don’t you black and white me.