PepsiCo have decided to drop Lil Wayne as their sponsor for Mountain Dew after his Emmett Till lyric on Future’s “Karate Chop” remix.

Weezy F Baby apologized to the Emmett Till family earlier this week with a letter, but they have recently come out and said that they don’t view the letter as an apology and that they want to meet Wayne.

If you follow hip-hop, then you will also know a similar story happened to Rick Ross recently. Reebok dropped Rozay for his lyrics on Rocko’s “U.O.E.N.O.” song were he rapped about drugging and raping a woman.

In my opinion, I really don’t think Tune will care too much about this. I guess it will also mean that we won’t be seeing anymore “DEWeezy” campaigns.

In the video above, you can watch the latest Mountain Dew commercial starring Lil Wayne called “This Is How We DEW“. The advert was directed by Chris Robinson and will be shown on television to promote Mountain Dew, as well as the “DEWeezy” campaign.

Click here to check out some photos from the commercial shoot and here to view three rough cuts. You can also watch Mountain Dew and Weezy F Baby‘s previous commercial collaboration here!

In related Tunechi news, hit the jump to view another recap of what went down at the grand opening of Wayne‘s Trukstop skate park in the Lower 9th Ward Village of New Orleans, Louisiana on September 26th.

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Just like with Macy’s, Lil Wayne will be making an in-store appearance at Dillard’s Inc. store at Jefferson Mall in Louisville, Kentucky on October 27th to launch and promote his new clothing brand – TRUKFIT. This means that TRUKFIT apparel will be now be sold at Dillard’s stores across the US, as well as from their online website starting on October 25th.

The first 300 customers to spend $150 or more on TRUKFIT clothes at one of Louisville’s Dillard’s stores (Jefferson Mall, Mall St. Matthews or Green Tree Mall) will get given a free wristband that allows them access to a VIP party at the Jefferson Mall Dillard’s store on October 27th. The first 10 shoppers to purchase $500 or more on TRUKFIT apparel will also get the chance to meet Weezy and receive a special limited edition TRUKFIT gift!

In other Tunechi news, you can watch episode 5 of his and Mountain Dew‘s “DEWeezy” series after the jump below.

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Check out some more footage from the grand opening of Lil Wayne‘s Trukstop skate park, which he helped build as part of his “DEWeezy” campaign in the Lower 9th Ward Village of New Orleans, Louisiana on September 26th. In the video above, you can watch TRUKFIT‘s recap of the event and after the jump, you can watch Mountain Dew‘s recap of event. Enjoy!

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Yesterday, Lil Wayne cut the ribbon to open his Trukstop skate park that he helped build along with Mountain Dew in the Lower 9th Ward Village of New Orleans, Louisiana, which was the worst place Hurricane Katrina hit back in 2005. You can watch a video above and two clips after the jump of Weezy having fun at the skate park grand opening, as well as delivering a speech to the people who attended!

Tune talked about why he started skateboarding and explained the reason behind wanting to build a skate park in his city New Orleans. After giving his speech, Wayne had a little skating session himself at the Trukstop skate park with professional skaters Paul Rodriguez and Theotis Beasley.

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