There has been much confrontation about Nelly’s old song “Tip Drill” being boycotted at Spelman College during his bone marrow drive back in 2004 that he was holding for his late sister that lost her battle to leukemia a year later.
“The Spelman thing, the only thing I feel I would’ve did different is kick somebody’s ass…that’s just how it felt to me, Pimp,” he said to host Marc Lamont Hill. “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…”
Below is the full interview with Huffington Post:
Although Nelly made good points would you have boycotted?
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