(CelebNMusic247-News) Nelly Blames Spelman Protest for His Sister’s Death?
While on his press tour for BET’s “Real Husbands of Hollywood,”rapper Nelly has a lot of people talking about his recent comments about historical black college Spelman College.
Back in Nelly’s height of his career, he found himself in the middle of controversy for his music video for “Tip Drill.” In the video, Nelly took a credit card and slid it down the middle of a young video vixen’s behind. The St Louis rapper received much criticism and even infuriated enough women at Spelman that they protested Nelly.
The protestors boycotted the 2004 bone marrow drive he was supposed to have at the campus to aid his sister Jacqueline Donahue who eventually passed away from leukemia in 2005. The protest caused Nelly to cancel the event and he tells Marc Lamont Hill via HuffPost Live that he’s still furious about the situation and he also somewhat blames the protestors for his sister’s death.
Nelly tells the HuffPost Live:
“The Spelman thing, the only thing I feel I would’ve did different is kick somebody’s a*s…that’s just how it felt to me, Pimp. I don’t have my sister. And I doubt it if half of those girls are still campaigning for what they quote, unquote took advantage for that opportunity for.”
“You [protesters] robbed me of a opportunity. Unfairly, my brother. Because we could’ve still had your conversation after I got my opportunity, but it could’ve been somebody that was coming to that bone marrow drive that day, that was possibly a match for my sister. That didn’t come because of that.”
Wow, how awful…We don’t blame Nelly one bit for the way he feels, because if the protest wasn’t going on, his sister may still be here.
Here is the controversial video which caused the backlash and protest against Nelly:
