# Can I Get To The Yams Can I Get To The Yams, also known as Fetty Wap's Sweet Yamz, comes from a November 2022 cover the rapper recorded of Masego and Devin Morrison's song Yamz, released days before Thanksgiving. His earnest belt of the lyric sparked TikTok lip syncs and photo slideshows labeling attractive characters as sweet yams, with Wiz Khalifa and Snoop Dogg piling on their own reactions by late November 2022. ## Origin Masego and Devin Morrison uploaded the original Yamz music video to YouTube on November 19, 2021, where it gathered roughly 2.4 million views within a year[2]. On November 18, 2022, Fetty Wap posted his cover titled Sweet Yamz to YouTube, drawing around 806,800 views and 40,000 likes in its first ten days[1]. That same day, he announced the song in a TikTok that reached about 3.6 million plays and 531,600 likes within ten days[3]. The earliest known reaction came hours later from TikToker @dontwaitfourltr, who used Fetty Wap's audio with an overlay reading, "Mr. Trap Queen himself done did a word for word bar for bar of Masego and I can't process it," earning roughly 201,100 plays and 29,100 likes in its first days[4]. - **Platform:** YouTube / TikTok (viral spread) - **Creator:** Fetty Wap - **Date:** 2022 ## Overview The format runs two ways on TikTok. Fans either mimic Fetty Wap's heartfelt belt of the Can I Get To The Yams line as a lip sync, or they set the audio over photo slideshows of celebrities, anime characters, or crushes they want to call a sweet yam[1]. The slideshow variant leans into horny-posting, with posters casting the song as earnest praise for whoever they consider attractive[5]. Posts typically open with the slow buildup of Fetty Wap's hook and climax with the yams belt, giving creators a clear rhythm to time photo transitions. The joke doubles as a Thanksgiving mood piece because the song came out the week of the holiday, letting posters link yams-the-food to yams-the-crush. Rapper reactions widened the audience, and Fetty Wap himself amplified Wiz Khalifa and Snoop Dogg clips by reposting their Instagram Stories to his own TikTok[8][9]. ## How to Use Creators typically match the audio's hook with either a lip sync of Fetty Wap's belt or a photo slideshow of someone they want to call a sweet yam. Common conventions include timing picture transitions to the song's buildup and holding the final slide on the yams peak. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Can I Get To The Yams? It is a lyric from Fetty Wap's 2022 song Sweet Yamz, a cover of Masego and Devin Morrison's Yamz, that caught on as a TikTok sound ahead of Thanksgiving 2022[1]. ### Where did Can I Get To The Yams come from? Fetty Wap uploaded Sweet Yamz to YouTube and TikTok on November 18, 2022, covering Masego and Devin Morrison's 2021 song Yamz[2][3]. ### What does Can I Get To The Yams mean? On TikTok, posters use sweet yams as flirty praise for an attractive person or character, matching Fetty Wap's earnest delivery to photo slideshows[6]. ### How do you use Can I Get To The Yams? Creators typically lip sync the hook or set the audio under a slideshow of someone they want to call a sweet yam, with the final image timed to the yams belt[7]. ### Is Can I Get To The Yams still popular? The sound peaked around Thanksgiving 2022 with reactions from Wiz Khalifa and Snoop Dogg, and it reappears each November tied to the holiday[8][9]. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8lOKMOTies]() 2. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWSaTEiZSUw]() 3. [https://www.tiktok.com/@fettywap/video/7167337597025439018]() 4. [https://www.tiktok.com/@dontwaitfourltr/video/7167490303413194030]() 5. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/can-i-get-to-the-yams-fetty-waps-sweet-yamz]() 6. [https://www.tiktok.com/@._mxichiro/video/7167913541163371818]() 7. [https://www.tiktok.com/@iamflowlol/video/7167602289744776494]() 8. [https://www.tiktok.com/@fettywap/video/7168539709159771435]() 9. [https://www.tiktok.com/@snoopdogg/video/7170765471350869294]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/can-i-get-to-the-yams-fetty-waps-sweet-yamz Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library