Lil Yachty addresses critics of the Gingerbread Man: “You just want a card full of five-star matches – Don’t be so uptight”
While speaking to Chris Van Vliet, rapper Lil Yachty addressed the “Gingerbread Man” gimmick in WWE with Trick Williams and Sami Zayn. Here is what Yachty had to say…
“So funny, it was not supposed to work. I remember when me and Trick got in, we were like, ‘Man, y’all sure?’ But then we just tried to make the most of it.
When I got the gingerbread shirt printed and we did the song, and we were really clowning him. Funny enough, they didn’t actually pitch Gingerbread Man. That was something we said because he was ginger. Just me and Trick clowning and calling him Gingerbread Man. Then I got the gingerbread cookies, and we just had fun with it.
Me and Trick, we always get on the phone or text and sh*t, be together, and we just think of ideas. How we gonna say this? What we gonna do? We’ll spend the whole day in my dressing room just trying to figure out what, how we gonna clown, or what jokes we gonna make. It just stuck, and then it turned into a thing, and it was so fun.
It was so silly. I mean, again, people forget it’s entertainment, and it’s supposed to be funny. It’s supposed to be fun. And yeah, it’s good wrestling, but it’s entertainment and fun. Have fun, man. Don’t be so uptight.
Sometimes I be thinking it’s like, ‘Damn, you just want a card full of five-star matches.’
[The sit-up in the coffin, the Undertaker. It was perfect!] I had to practice that, bro. They had to pad my feet up so I could push. I don’t have the abs for that. That’s ab work, man. Shout out to the Undertaker, bro. That’s ab work, sitting up.”
Thanks to ChrisVanVliet.com for the quotes.