Vanessa Bryant called Meek Mill after a letter from her last song made reference to her late husband, Kobe Bryant.
Mill’s last song, “Don’t Worry”, leaked online and was quickly devoured by fans of the rapper. However, one line in particular is making listeners upset with him for apparently mocking Kobe’s death in a tragic helicopter accident last year, which also claimed his daughter’s life.
In the song, Mill raps, “This b —- I’m f — in ‘always tell me that she loves me, but she never showed me / Yes, and if I ever fail, I’ll leave. with my helicopter, it will be another Kobe. “
The outrage over the song spread online, reaching out to Kobe’s widow, who read her Instagram story on Monday to speak directly to Mill and express her dissatisfaction with the lyrics.
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“Dear @meekmill, I find this line extremely insensitive and disrespectful. Period,” begins her post. “I don’t know any of your songs, but I believe you can do better than that. If you’re a fan, that’s okay, there is a better way to show your admiration for my husband. It lacks respect and tact.”
Rapper Meek Mill got a reaction to a lyric that apparently mocked Kobe Bryant’s death.
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Mill accessed Twitter early Tuesday morning to share with his followers that he had contacted Vanessa about the lyrics shortly after she shared her post. Although he didn’t mention it by name, he noted that previous tweets that others believed were referring to the reaction to the lyrics of his song were not really about that.
“I apologized to her privately today, not to the public …” He wrote. “Nothing I say on my page about a viral moment on the Internet or the family of a bereaved woman! If you care about someone in mourning, change the subject!”
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Bryant, his daughter Gigi and seven others died when their helicopter crashed into a hill in southern California last January. Everyone was flying from Orange County to a youth basketball tournament in Ventura County, when the helicopter encountered a thick fog near Calabasas.
Vanessa Bryant, Kobe Bryant, Natalia Bryant and Gianna Maria-Onore Bryant photographed at a film premiere before the NBA player’s death.
(Jordan Strauss / Invision / AP, Archive)
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Those who died along with Bryant and his daughter were Orange Coast College baseball coach John Altobelli; his wife Keri and his daughter Alyssa; Christina Mauser, who helped Bryant coach her daughter’s basketball team; and Sarah Chester and her daughter Payton, as well as the pilot. Alyssa and Payton were Gianna’s teammates.
Ryan Gaydos of Fox News contributed to this report.