LIL WAYNE MAKES LYRICAL ATTACK ON SHARPTON!

Rapper LIL WAYNE has lashed out at U.S. civil rights leader REVEREND AL SHARPTON in the lyrics to a new song, branding the minister a "nobody". On the track Misunderstood from his new album Tha Carter III, the Lollipop hitmaker takes aim at the race activist, rapping: "You are nobody to me/You're just another Don King (boxing promoter) with a perm/Just a little more political/And that just means you a little more un-human/Than us humans... F**k Al Sharpton and anyone like him." But Sharpton insists he takes no offence to the slur, reported by AllHipHop.com - because he claims Lil Wayne has no credibility as a musician. Hey Al, white people know him now!

He says, "While some of the rappers don't like the fact that Rev. Sharpton has been leading marches against the degradation of women in music, a Gallup (opinion) poll released last week revealed that Reverend Sharpton has a 50 per cent approval rate among African-Americans. "So why dignify a response to one rap artist who doesn't even say anything substantive?"