American rapper Meek Mill received an avalanche of criticism on social networks after a song was leaked last week referring to the death of Kobe Bryant, a remembered basketball star, who died in January 2020.
The song, titled “Don’t Worry (RIP Kobe)”, is a collaboration with fellow rapper Lil Baby.
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In this song, Mill says: “If I ever miss it, I’ll go out with my helicopter, it’ll be another Kobe.”, referring to the plane crash in which the basketball player died.
Later, rapper Lil Baby talks about his desire to have a child: “That’s what I can call her Kobe, if she’s a Gigi girl.”
These fragments are related to the helicopter crash that took place on January 26, 2020, when Kobe Bryant, 41, died, along with his daughter Gianna (Gigi), aged 13, and seven other people.
According to the BBC, the song is no longer available on any social network or YouTube.
Bryant (right) played for the LA Lakers and is known as one of the best players in the history of the game. In the photo is with his daughter Gianna.
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Faced with this situation, Vanessa Bryant, the athlete’s widow, wrote in an Instagram story: “I find this line extremely insensitive and disrespectful. Period.”
In addition, Vanessa said that if the rapper is a fan of Kobe, he can show his admiration in a different way, because the lyrics of that song “have no respect and tact.
For his part, Meek Mill, whose real name is Robert Rihmeek Williams, suggested on his Twitter account that his lyrics had been misinterpreted.
He also claimed that it becomes an ugly “trend” from time to time.
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I don’t think we’re all on the same signal .. I don’t see what you see … I look on the net laughing like I did et I say random shit all day on social .. … it becomes a tendency to hate myself from from time to time, but I literally feed on that shit
– Meek Mill (@MeekMill) February 23, 2021
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In another post, The rapper touched on the issue and wrote that he had already apologized to Vanessa in private.
He also said it was false that his previous trills were related to controversy.
I apologized to her earlier today, not the public … Nothing I say on my page goes to a viral moment on the internet or the family of a grieving woman! If you care about someone in pain, change the subject!
– Meek Mill (@MeekMill) February 23, 2021
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Reactions on the social networks of hip-hop fans did not wait.
With the hashtag #MeekMillIsOverParty They showed their indignation at what had happened.
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This scandal comes just over a month after the one-year anniversary of the death of the basketball star and her daughter, when the helicopter they were in crashed on a hill north of Los Angeles.
“BBC” said that in early February 2020, US security investigators deduced this the pilot was probably disoriented in the fog.
“We are talking about spatial disorientation in which the pilot cannot literally know in which direction he is up or down, whether he is leaning left or right,” said Robert Sumwalt, chairman of the National Transportation Security Council.
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