# Lamar Roasts Franklin Yee Yee Ass Haircut Lamar Roasts Franklin Yee Yee Ass Haircut is a scene from Grand Theft Auto V in which the character Lamar Davis mocks Franklin Clinton's braided hairstyle, calling it a 'yee yee ass haircut.' The line became a copypasta and slang expression in 2013, then exploded again in 2020 as a YouTube video template where Lamar's model or voice is swapped for other characters roasting Franklin. ## Overview Lamar Roasts Franklin Yee Yee Ass Haircut refers to a short scene from Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto V in which Lamar Davis needles his friend Franklin Clinton over his braided hairstyle, sarcastically telling him to take his 'yee yee ass haircut' back to the barber[1]. The line, delivered by voice actor Slink Johnson, closes out the story mission 'Franklin and Lamar' and quickly turned into a fan-favorite quote among GTA V players[2]. The phrase 'yee yee ass' was adopted as slang for something that looks tacky or ugly, with an Urban Dictionary entry logged only a week after the game's release[3]. From 2020 onward, the scene took on a second life as a video remix template known as 'X Roasts Franklin,' where Lamar's character model or dialogue is swapped for other fictional and real figures such as SpongeBob, Harry Potter, Kermit the Frog and Darth Vader[4]. ## How It Spread Fan output picked up almost immediately. In November 2013 a Redditor posted a cross stitch of Lamar with the quote, and the image was later reposted to r/gaming in May 2018 where it cleared 27,000 upvotes[4]. A May 2019 clip of Japanese VTuber Sakura Miko unwittingly repeating a slur along with Lamar's line during a stream also went viral on YouTube[4]. The modern remix wave started on May 13th, 2020, when Twitter user @leosleepy posted a version of the cutscene with Lamar's voice replaced by a SpongeBob text-to-speech generated with 15.ai, racking up more than 448,000 views[6]. A month later, YouTube channel Hit Content Productions took @leosleepy's audio and paired it with a modded cutscene that swapped Lamar's character model for SpongeBob, which went on to pass 2 million views[7]. From there the format snowballed with 'British Lamar' by Tyler NY, a Harry Potter version, a Kermit the Frog version and 'Darth Vader Roasts Franklin' by WackyW3irdo, which hit over 600,000 views in two days in late December 2020[8]. GTA content creator Merfish leaned further into the joke with surrealist entries such as 'Yee-Yee-Ass (An Existential Roasting)' in July 2020 and crossover pieces like 'Everybody Roasts Franklin'[4]. Rockstar itself acknowledged the meme in a December 2021 Grand Theft Auto V update that added the co-op Short Trip mission 'Fire It Up,' whose ending stages a near-identical Lamar and Franklin exchange as a direct callback[1]. ## How to Use The catchphrase 'yee yee ass' is typically used as an insulting adjective aimed at anything that looks bad, cheap or ridiculous, following Lamar's original delivery. For the video format, creators commonly take the modded cutscene as a base and either dub Lamar's lines in a new voice or swap his character model for another figure, often keeping Franklin's confused reactions untouched so the joke lands on the identity of the roaster. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Lamar Roasts Franklin Yee Yee Ass Haircut? It is a scene from Grand Theft Auto V in which Lamar Davis mocks Franklin's hairstyle as a 'yee yee ass haircut,' which turned into both a catchphrase and a YouTube video remix template[1][4]. ### Where did Lamar Roasts Franklin Yee Yee Ass Haircut come from? The scene is from GTA V, released by Rockstar Games on September 17th, 2013, and voiced by Slink Johnson as Lamar[1][2]. ### What does Lamar Roasts Franklin Yee Yee Ass Haircut mean? 'Yee yee ass' is used as slang for something that looks tacky or terrible, first defined on Urban Dictionary a week after GTA V's launch[3]. ### How do you use Lamar Roasts Franklin Yee Yee Ass Haircut? People typically use the phrase as an insult attached to any ugly object, or edit the cutscene so a different character delivers Lamar's roast, as popularized by Hit Content Productions' SpongeBob version[7]. ### Is Lamar Roasts Franklin Yee Yee Ass Haircut still popular? It is a classic GTA V meme that stayed active enough for Rockstar to reference it in a December 2021 in-game mission update called 'Fire It Up'[1]. ## References 1. [https://www.rockstargames.com/gta-v]() 2. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax7-Y4KDpFA]() 3. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=yee%20yee%20ass]() 4. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/lamar-roasts-franklin-yee-yee-ass-haircut]() 5. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax7-Y4KDpFA]() 6. [https://x.com/i/status/1260718124841799681]() 7. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FeS7iMv5Zc]() 8. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUvGDNa_qb0]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/lamar-roasts-franklin-yee-yee-ass-haircut Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library