Tony Yayo originated the “U Can’t C Me” dance back during G-Unit‘s heyday — and now, he said he’s thrilled that LSU breakout star Angel Reese has brought it to a new audience.
The Talk of New York sat down with TMZ Sports on Saturday (April 8) to talk about the controversy surrounding Reese’s on-court gesture, which many on Twitter credited Yayo for originating.
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As far as Yayo’s concerned, he feels the controversy around Reese was much ado about nothing. “Any kind of sports, talking trash is a part of the game,” he said. “I mean, it was for the championship game. It’s competition. Even when I’m playing 2k — if you playin’ in the game, with video games, we get excited. You know?”
And as for the “U Can’t C Me” dance, the former G-Unit soldier said that it was “cool” that it had been passed down to another generation.
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“I mean, Kanye [West] talked about doing the Yayo dance in a song,” he said. “John Cena mentioned that he got it from me. So I’m cool with it, you know? It’s just a dance. I don’t take nothin’ personal. It was a dance I created because I was trying to hide from the police. But shout out to all them people — John Cena, Angel Reese, Caitlin Clark — and definitely Flavor Flav. But Angel Reese? You know, she took the ‘U Can’t C Me’ dance to a whole ‘nother level.”
Check out Tony Yayo’s interview with TMZ Sports below:
While he might not be as prolific a rapper today as his G-Unit counterpart Lloyd Banks, Tony Yayo’s influence on modern Hip Hop cannot be denied. As the resurgent popularity of the “U Can’t C Me” dance demonstrated, Yayo’s career has been one that has been built of him being himself.
Yayo’s realness traces back to the 1990s, when he visited Atlanta and met Ludacris‘ longtime manager, Chaka Zulu, for the first time, and he was told he should always just be himself.
Speaking to VladTV in a recent interview, Yayo shared a valuable piece of advice of Chaka’s that stuck with him.
“[He told me] success doesn’t come in the masses,” he said. “There’s only gonna be one Eminem, one Dr.Dre, one Timbaland, one 50, one JAY-Z, one Diddy.”
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He continued: “If you cool with your poistion, and what you got in life and what God blessed you with, then sobeit, be happy. That’s why I am who I am, [and] move how I move.”
