Meek Mill Apologizes to Vanessa Bryant After Kobe Bryant Name Drop

Facing heat over a leaked Kobe Bryant lyric, American rapper, Meek Mill issued a private apology to Vanessa Bryant over the name drop of her husband, late Kobe Bryant in his unreleased song. 

Vanessa caught wind of the line—where Meek raps, "Yeah, and if I ever lack, I'm goin' out with my chopper, it be another Kobe"—and took to her Instagram Story with a message for Meek on Monday, February 22.

"Dear @meekmill, I find this line to be extremely insensitive and disrespectful," she wrote. "Period. I am not familiar with any of your music, but I believe you can do better than this. If you are a fan, fine, there's a better way to show your admiration for my husband. This lacks respect and tact."

On Tuesday, February 23, the rapper took to his Twitter yet again tweeting,

"I apologized to her in private earlier today not to the public... Nothing I say on my page directed to a internet viral moment or the family of a grieving woman! If you care about someone grieving change the subject!"

Although Meek said he wasn't going to respond to the "viral moment," he tweeted earlier that day, 

"I don't think we on the same signal y'all .. I don't see what y'all see... I be looking at the net laughing like I did whet…I say random s--t all day on social ... it becomes a trend to hate on me every once in a while but I feed off that s--t ima beast literally." 

Kobe, along with his and Vanessa's 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others, died in a tragic helicopter crash on Jan. 26, 2020.