Ex-NBA player Stephen Jackson took to social media to reveal that Lil Yachty called him to apologize after rapping a controversial George Floyd-referencing lyric during a recent PlaqueBoyMax stream. On the August 13 live stream, a song was played where Yachty rapped, “Put my knee up on her neck, I went George Floyd,” while he, Max, and the rest of the people in the room danced to the song.

In May 2020, Floyd was killed by Minnesota Police Officer Derek Chauvin, who was filmed with his knee on Floyd’s neck as he called out, “I can’t breathe.” His death, alongside Breonna Taylor’s murder at the hands of the Louisville Police Department, sparked worldwide protests . Jackson, a Port Arthur, Texas native and a friend of Floyd, was a major public advocate after his death.

On August 14,

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