Rapper Meek Mill tweeted early Tuesday that he apologized to Vanessa Bryant hours after she slammed him for words about her late husband, Lakers legend Kobe Bryant, who ‘she considered “extremely callous and disrespectful”

Last week the lyrics for what had yet to be released from Mill’s song titled “Don’t Worry (RIP Kobe)” leaked online They contained the lines, “If I ever miss it, I’m going out with my chopper / It’ll be another Kobe “- an apparent reference to the Jan 26, 2020 helicopter crash that killed Vanessa Bryant’s husband, daughter Gianna and seven other people

Immediate backlash followed The rapper born as Robert Rihmeek Williams appeared to dismiss these criticisms, tweeting on Wednesday: “Someone is promoting a story and you all follow it you can’t stop me on the Internet ”and“ They pay to influence you now it’s almost like mind control ”

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“Dear @meekmill I find this sentence extremely callous and disrespectful End point I don’t know any of your music, but I believe you can do better If you are a fan, alright, there is a better way to show your music. admiration for my husband It lacks respect and tact “

Initially, Mill held his own in apparent response to Bryant’s comments, tweeting, “I don’t think we’re all on the same signal I can’t see what you see I’m watching the net laughing as I am did it [when] I say random s – all day long on social media it becomes a tendency to hate me from time to time, but I feed off of that – “

An hour later, however, he admitted that he had apologized to the one person he thought deserved it

I apologized to her privately earlier today, not in public Nothing I say on my page is about a viral moment on the internet or the family of a grieving woman! If you care about someone grieving, change the subject!

“I apologized to him privately earlier today, not to the public,” Mill tweeted in an apparent reference to Vanessa Bryant

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