Lil Yachty recently expressed his gratitude to Tyler, The Creator for being his mentor.

On his Instagram, the Atlanta rapper paid tribute to to Tyler.

“Last leg of this tour for me and I just want to take the time to thank you for your friendship, thanking you for giving me the praises i needed to push me on and holding me accountable when i do some / ignorant sh*t,” his post read. “All in all, i’m grateful.”

“1 of the few mentors i have, always held me accountable, always challenged me,” wrote Yachty. “Forever grateful. Young men need mentors. Need a line of proper guidance. Thanks Tyyytyyy.”

Lil Yacty had been opening up for  Tyler on his Chromakopia album across North America.

Outside of being thankful to Tyler, Yachty found himseilf embroiled in a controversy about his use of George Flyod in a song. Shared a snippet of a track during a recent Twitch livestream, Yachty rapped, ““Put my knee up on her neck, I went George Floyd,” Yachty rapped on the song.”

Former NBA star Stephen Jackson took offense to lyric and blasted Yachthy in in a now-deleted Instagram post. He described the lyric as “demeaning.”

“Don’t ever say his name, bro. None of y’all knew G. Nothing about him,” Jackson wrote.

On Instragram Story, Jackson revealed that Yachty that apologized for the the song.

“I took my post down about Yachty because I’m emotional about George. I apologized to him. We spoke and he apologized as well,” Jackson said. “I salute him. Not a lot of people like to own up to when they [expletive] up.”