India, Aug. 15 -- Rapper Lil Yachty has landed in a controversy after debuting a new, unreleased song on a livestream with PlaqueBoyMax on Thursday. The song has come under fire over a line that references George Floyd, sparking a reaction from Floyd's friend and former NBA player, Stephen Jackson.

The video of the song has gone viral on social media, especially the portion on George Floyd, the Minnesota police brutality victim whose death sparked nationwide BLM protests in 2020. The lyrics seemed to reference Floyd's death is a sexualized way, sparking massive backlash.

The line goes: "Put my knee up on her neck, I went George Floyd." It refers how police officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into George Floyd's neck for over nine min...