George Floyd (1974-2020), also known as Big Floyd, was an American rapper. On May 25, 2020, he was killed in Minneapolis by a white police officer who suffocated him under his knee, after Floyd had allegedly tried to pay at grocery store with a counterfeit $20 bill. Video footage from the incident began to circulate on the internet, and as a result, protests spread across the US.

Floyd was born in North Carolina, but he was raised in Houston, in the Cuney Homes projects. He attended Jack Yates High School, where he became star high-school athlete at both football and basketball. He got into Florida State University on a basketball scholarship but dropped out when he ran out of money.

After that, Floyd attended a university in Kingsville, Texas, and later moved to Minneapolis as part of a program run by a local church to find careers for disadvantaged young black men. During his life, he worked as security guard, truck driver and bouncer at a restaurant.

In the 90s he started making rap music under the stage name Big Floyd, rapping on mixtapes from the late DJ Screw and becoming part of the group Presidential Playas, who released the album Block Party in 2000, and affiliate of the legendary Screwed Up Click.

Floyd was a good friend with ex-NBA player Stephen Jackson since they grew up in the same Houston Third Ward neighborhood.