Lil Yachty is OK as he recovers from Atlanta car wreck after spinning out amid rainy conditions
Lil Yachty is OK with minor arm injuries after he was involved in a scary car wreck in his native Georgia on Monday.
The rapper, 22, spun out hydroplaning in a red sports car Atlanta on Georgia State Route 400, leaving him without control of the vehicle, sources told TMZ.
The Mableton, Georgia native’s car was caught in puddles of standing water, leading to a collision with a barrier on the shoulder, according to the outlet.
On the mend: Lil Yachty is OK with minor arm injuries after he was involved in a scary car wreck in his native Georgia on Monday
The recording artist, whose full name is Miles Parks McCollum, was able to walk in the wake of the collision, which brought out first responders.
His vehicle was totaled in the incident, the outlet reported.
It was not immediately clear if the One Night performer had visited a nearby hospital in the wake of the scary incident.
Lil Yachty was one of the stars spotted last month protesting in the wake of the death of security guard George Floyd at the hands of police officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis, who’s been charged in the death.
Onstage: The rapper was snapped performing in LA late last year
Speaking out: The rapper took part in recent protests in the wake of George Floyd’s killing. He was snapped last year in LA
At one of the protests, Lil Yachty grabbed a megaphone and expressed his views on the crisis surrounding racism and law enforcement in the country
In the wake of the jarring sequence of events, riots began in Minnesota and spread both nationwide and internationally, with thousands of people taking to the streets to protest racism and police brutality, even amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
At one of the protests, Lil Yachty grabbed a megaphone and expressed his views on the crisis surrounding racism and law enforcement in the country.
‘I feel like we gotta stand for something or we’ll fall for anything, you know what I’m saying?’ he said. ‘It doesn’t make any sense to me … why we have to go through breaking windows’ and ‘demolishing’ the local area … ‘just to show our frustration’ against incidents like the one involving Floyd.
‘It shouldn’t take that – but that’s the life we live in, and we gotta do what we gotta do, we’re gonna stick together, because that a most important. Whether you black, whether you white, green, yellow, purple – we’re a family and were gonna show them what it takes.
‘Black lives matter and that’s what it’s gonna be.’
Lil Yachty captioned the post: ‘I am no different from the next man. Every voice matters and must be heard.’
Other notable names who were seen protesting in the streets included J. Cole, Nick Cannon, Halsey, and Machine Gun Kelly.