Former NBA Star Stephen Jackson Rips Lil Yachty for George Floyd Lyric: ‘He Apologized’

Former NBA star Stephen Jackson put Lil Yachty on blast for a disrespectful bar referencing his late friend George Floyd, but the two appear to have made amends since.

It all started w hen Yachty appeared on Plaqueboymax’s live stream earlier this week, where he played an unreleased track slated to land on the Concrete Boys’ upcoming compilation, which contained the distasteful lyric about Floyd’s death.

“Put my knee up on her neck, I went George Floyd,” he raps on the song.

Jackson immediately took issue with the lyric and pressed Yachty on social media, even tagging the Atlanta rapper in his since-deleted post on Thursday (Aug. 14) criticizing him.

“Lil Yachty, bro. You been wack, my n—a. But 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-a— music, my n—a? That s—t weak,” he said. “Y’all the only era that feel like demeaning the dead and saying that s—t is cool, my n—a. It ain’t. It’s me and the whole third ward and the whole Houston, Texas, riding behind G man.”

Jackson continued: “Don’t ever say his name, bro. None of y’all knew G. Nothing about him … That’s some weak a— shit, Yachty. Let somebody die in your family. We gon do a whole skit about it. It’s only you wack Sambo a— n—as that do s—t like that.”

However, according to SJ, the two have since made amends and exchanged apologies. Jackson revealed in a Friday (Aug. 15) video to his IG Story that Lil Boat apologized to him and understands why people were upset with the lyric.

“I apologized to him and we spoke and he apologized as well,” Stak said. “He understands the outrage. Yachty’s a smart individual, that’s why he’s been so successful … Shout-out to Lil Yachty for reaching out … I salute him.”

He added in a post to his Instagram feed: “I won’t be doing no interviews about it. I spoke to him, he’s a smart young man … He made a mistake and apologized … We move on from it.”

The All the Smoke podcast cohost was a longtime friend of George Floyd, who was killed by a Minneapolis police officer in May 2020. In a video recorded by a bystander, Officer Derek Chauvin put his knee on Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes. He was fired and later convicted on second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter charges.