Videos by According2HipHop
Former NBA player Stephen Jackson revealed on social media that Lil Yachty personally called him to apologize after rapping a lyric referencing George Floyd during a recent PlaqueBoyMax livestream.
Stephen Jackson says it’s squashed 🤝 After calling out Lil Yachty for mentioning his late friend George Floyd in a new song, Stak5 revealed they spoke privately and Yachty apologized. “No interviews, it’s handled.” ✊🏾💬 pic.twitter.com/Su6VEzoHi3
— Traps N Trunks (@trapsntrunks) August 15, 2025
The August 13 broadcast featured an unreleased song in which Yachty rapped, “Put my knee up on her neck, I went George Floyd,” while he, Max, and others in the room danced along.
The line appeared to reference the May 2020 killing of George Floyd, who died when former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck for over nine minutes as Floyd pleaded, “I can’t breathe.” His death, along with the police killing of Breonna Taylor, sparked worldwide protests against police brutality and racial injustice.
Jackson, a Port Arthur, Texas native and close friend of Floyd, became a leading voice in the movement that followed. On August 14, the All The Smoke co-host took to social media—before deleting the post—to slam Yachty for the lyric, calling him a “sambo” and criticizing what he saw as clout-chasing.
“You think you saying George Floyd’s name, and trying to use his name in a bar, that’s gonna make people like your wack-ass music? That shit weak,” Jackson said. “Y’all the only era that feel like demeaning the dead and saying that shit is cool. It ain’t.”
Jackson continued:
“Don’t ever say his name, bro. None of y’all knew G, nothing about him. But y’all wanna say his name for clout. That’s some weak-ass shit, Yachty. Let somebody die in your family—we gonna do a whole skit about it and see how funny it is. Cut that shit out.”
