Lil Yachty is gearing up to release some new music, but Black folks on the internet are saying they’ve already heard enough. Last night, the rapper played a snippet of an unreleased song on Plaqueboymax’s, an online streamer and producer, livestream. And a specific lyric from the song has many folks in a complete uproar.
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A clip, which has been circulating on X, shows Lil Yachty, Plaqueboymax, and more studio crew bopping their heads along to Lil Yachty’s unreleased track. However, there is one bar in the song that made folks online instantly diss the song and Lil Yachty.
In the snippet, Lil Yachty is rapping about a hot and steamy night with a woman– not an uncommon topic for the genre, but it’s the comparison that Lil Yachty makes of his promiscuous night to the death of George Floyd that has people raising their brows.
He rapped: “Put my knee up on her neck, I went George Floyd.” While he and the rest of his studio crew continued to bop their heads, folks online began to criticize Lil Yachty for the insensitive bar.
One X user in the comments wrote: “You’re telling me everyone in the room heard that bar and not a single person thought to say anything?”
“Such a ridiculous line for a song that’s hot ass,” wrote another user.
“Another week, another celebrity purposefully doing something they knew causes backlash for attention because they are losing popularity,” added another user in the comments.
“Sh*t was so ass no one even clocked what he said, cus they wasn’t even listening,” added another.
George Floyd’s murder caused global protests about racism and police brutality in the sweltering and tense heat of summer 2020, and folks online don’t think Lil Yachty is really part of the rap culture if he can make light of such a serious situation about a fellow Black man.
Floyd was killed in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020, after white police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for more than nine minutes during an arrest. Chauvin was later convicted of murder and manslaughter and sentenced to over 20 years in prison, while three other officers involved were also convicted on federal charges.
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