Vanessa Bryant calls out gentle mill over his very dark lyrics about Kobe’s death

Vanessa Bryant may not be familiar enough with the music of Gentle mill to say whether she likes it or not, but she was certainly ready to take a stand against some of its lyrical content when it came to the horrific helicopter crash that cost her husband and daughter.

The line first came to the attention of Kobe Bryant fans and the internet last week – and they had a lot to say about it then – and in the meantime it has apparently also been brought to his widow’s attention.

She was not impressed with what she saw.

“I find this line extremely insensitive and disrespectful. Period,” Vanessa wrote on her Instagram Stories Monday night about a screenshot of the lyrics involved.

“I know nothing about your music, but I believe you can do better than that,” she continued. ‘If you’re a fan, there’s a better way to show your admiration for my husband. It has no respect and tact. ‘

While it’s not yet clear if there’s any connection to Vanessa’s calling or if it’s just a matter of inconvenient timing, Meek Mill started a tweet storm shortly after Vanessa’s message hit her stories.

“I’m cruelly going back in this shit … f #% k ya feelings!” he writes in his first tweet and follows very quickly on her heels. This was followed by statements, including “Ion trust people gotta play it raw ……” and “Head taps for n #% ga tryna pull my card!” and “Bobby back ….. we needed it.”

He persisted for at least the next few hours, with one statement appearing to be in response to – well, something. “I do not think we are all the same. I do not see what you see … I look laughing at the net,” he tweeted. “I say random shit all day on social … it’s becoming a tendency to hate me every now and then, but I literally feed that shit ima animal.”

While it’s unclear what he’s referring to in these posts, it’s very clear that his fans and fans know exactly what Vanessa wrote, if he takes some time to examine the comments below each of them.

“In no way are you responding to a widow who has said that your lyrics are disrespectful to her husband,” one follower wrote after his first tweet. There were similar sentiments in response to each of his posts.

Vanessa Bryant’s message and the response of Meek Mills (or totally unrelated tweets) sent them both quickly to the top of Twitter’s popular topics, as the social media platform weighs the controversy.

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