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02:30 on May 4 2013

Pepsi Drops Rapper Lil Wayne Over Song Lyric

Sky News — The face of Pepsi Co's Mountain Dew drink - Lil Wayne - gets the chop over a crude reference to a US civil rights martyr. more info

03:02 on May 4 2013

PepsiCo drops Lil Wayne over Emmett Till lyric in rap song

CNN Showbiz — PepsiCo is ending its relationship with rapper Lil Wayne over what the company calls an "offensive reference to a revered civil rights icon" -- 14-year-old Emmett Till, w... more info

18:05 on May 4 2013

PepsiCo Drops Lil Wayne Over 'Offensive' Lyrics About Civil Rights Icon

Starpulse — PepsiCo bosses have dropped Lil Wayne as its spokesman after the hip hop star upset the family of civil rights icon Emmett Till. more info

09:17 on May 4 2013

Mountain Dew drops Lil Wayne

Jam! Showbiz Music, Canada — PepsiCo Inc severed ties with rapper Lil Wayne on Friday over a graphic reference to slain U.S. civil rights figure Emmett Till in a song. more info

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