Lil Yachty Recounts How Gingerbread Man Angle Was Pitched

Lil Yachty was part of the “Gingerbread Man” angle with Trick Williams and Sami Zayn, and he recently recalled how it was pitched. The whole angle involved Williams mocking Zayn by calling him the Gingerbread Man as a reference to his appearance, and it blew up from there. The whole thing led to Zayn destroying the Gingerbread Man costume that had come into play, followed by a “funeral” for the costume the next week where Yachty came out of the coffin and nailed Zayn.

Yachty recalled how the whole thing was “not supposed to work” in his interview on Insight With Chris Van Vliet, noting that it was very fun and that they just tried to make the most out of it.

On How the Gingerbread Man Angle Was Pitched To Him:

“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 [Sami Zayn].

“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, and it just stuck, and then it turned into a thing, and it was so fun.”

On the Gingerbread Man Funeral:

“It was so silly. 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 and 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.”

On the Undertaker-Like Sit-Up From the Coffin:

“I had to practice that. 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. That’s ab work, sitting up.”