Lil Yachty is facing criticism after debuting a new track during a livestream that included a bar many are calling deeply insensitive. In the snippet, the rapper delivers the line: “I put my knee up on her neck, I went George Floyd.”
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The lyric appears to reference the 2020 murder of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man killed when former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck for over nine minutes. The incident, captured on video, sparked global protests against police brutality and systemic racism.
Social media users quickly reacted, with many expressing shock that such a tragedy would be used as a punchline. The moment has reignited a long-running conversation in Hip-Hop: when do rap lyrics cross the line?
You can hear the controversial bar in the clip below and decide for yourself.
