Future called in Big Boy’s Neighborhood on Power 106 LA and spoke on the situation. According to him, Weezy helped bring light to Till in a positive way and because of the song, most of the younger generation got to know about him and the tragedy that happened in 1955 when he was beaten to death for whistling at a white woman in Mississippi.
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