What is "Rich Minion" by Yeat?

It's a snippet of a Yeat rap song whose main lyric is "I got money," rolled out by Lyrical Lemonade as part of the Minions: The Rise of Gru trailer and soundtrack push.

Where did "Rich Minion" by Yeat come from?

Cole Bennett teased the collab on Twitter on June 16th, 2022, and Yeat posted a (later deleted) Instagram Reel of the snippet the next day, which was mirrored to the /r/yeat_ subreddit.

What does "Rich Minion" by Yeat mean?

The joke pairs Yeat's wealth-flexing "I got money" delivery with Minions imagery, treating a children's movie promo like a luxury rap drop, especially around the IHOP Minions Meal and Rise of Gru tickets.

How do you use "Rich Minion" by Yeat?

On TikTok, creators typically drop the audio over footage of Minions-branded food, merch, or ticket stubs, often cutting on the beat to a smug flex, as in @ethan_jewell's Minions Meal Review and @unstable.egirl's ticket video.

Is "Rich Minion" by Yeat still popular?

It peaked during the June 2022 Rise of Gru rollout alongside the broader gentleminions wave, with Cole Bennett's June 26th Minion clip hitting 828,000 views in a day, and it's since been treated as a classic 2022 TikTok sound rather than an active trend.

"Rich Minion" by Yeat

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Published October 9, 2026

"Rich Minion" by Yeat is a snippet of a rapper Yeat song, built around the lyric "I got money," that leaked in June 2022 as part of a Lyrical Lemonade collab tied to the Minions: The Rise of Gru soundtrack. After Cole Bennett teased the trailer on Twitter, the clip jumped from Instagram Reels to TikTok, where it fueled the summer 2022 "gentleminions" and Minions Meal craze.

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Overview

"Rich Minion" by Yeat, also tagged Yeat x Minions or Minions x Lyrical Lemonade, is a short rap snippet whose hook is just the words "I got money," delivered in Yeat's signature auto-tuned bark. It was pitched as part of the soundtrack rollout for Minions: The Rise of Gru, with music-video studio Lyrical Lemonade handling the trailer tie-in1 6.

Online, the joke works on the collision between the song's wealth-flex energy and a cartoon Minion grinning next to a Lyrical Lemonade juice box7. TikTokers used the audio to score ironic videos about blowing cash on the "Minions Meal" at IHOP and buying bulk tickets to The Rise of Gru, treating a kids' movie like the hottest luxury drop of the summer8 9.

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Origin & Background

Platform

Twitter / Instagram (viral spread on TikTok)

Creator

Yeat; Cole Bennett / Lyrical Lemonade

Date

2022

On June 16th, 2022, Lyrical Lemonade founder Cole Bennett tweeted that he was "doing a trailer for the minions movie" and had convinced the studio to let him use Yeat for the soundtrack, pulling roughly 30,200 likes in ten days1. The official Minions Twitter account replied with only the "eyes" emoji, racking up around 6,100 likes2.

The next day, June 17th, 2022, Yeat posted a snippet of the collab as an Instagram Reel that he later deleted. Before it came down, Reddit user itsKyrox screen-recorded the Reel and reposted it to the /r/yeat_ subreddit, where it preserved the roughly 5,800 likes the original Reel had drawn in a single day3 10.

How It Spread

The snippet jumped platforms almost immediately. On June 17th, 2022, TikToker @yeats_first_perc reposted a screen capture of Yeat's Reel, which pulled roughly 198,600 plays and 25,500 likes within nine days and became the source audio most other creators pulled from4. The same day, @keenan.bills posted an early reaction clip using the sound that reached about 467,600 plays and 88,100 likes5.

Lyrical Lemonade kept the hype moving. On June 22nd, 2022, the company's Instagram Story leaked what looked like a trailer cut featuring the Minions and Yeat's audio, and a screen-recorded reupload to YouTube by the channel Underground Stars pulled roughly 56,100 views in five days11. On June 25th, Lyrical Lemonade's Instagram posted a teaser graphic for the Minions: The Rise of Gru collab that drew around 296,300 likes in two days, including a Photoshop of a Minion styled as Yeat6. A day later, on June 26th, Cole Bennett posted the full Instagram clip of a Minion sipping Lyrical Lemonade and flashing company-branded braces, which hit roughly 828,000 views and 266,500 likes in one day7.

The TikTok side of the trend ran in parallel. On June 24th, 2022, TikToker @ethan_jewell posted a "Minions Meal Review" video using the audio that reached roughly 794,000 plays and 101,700 likes in three days8. On June 26th, @unstable.egirl's clip captioned "7 tickets to minions rise of gru please" pulled around 1.6 million plays and 464,600 likes in a single day, a riff on the older Tickets to Joker, Please template9 10.

Timeline

2022-06-16

Cole Bennett tweets that he's doing a Minions trailer with Yeat on the soundtrack, and the official Minions account replies with the "eyes" emoji.

2022-06-17

Yeat posts a snippet as an Instagram Reel; @yeats_first_perc and @keenan.bills repost the audio to TikTok, where it begins spreading.

2022-06-22

Lyrical Lemonade's Instagram Story leaks a trailer cut featuring the Minions and Yeat's audio.

2022-06-24

TikToker @ethan_jewell's "Minions Meal Review" using the sound hits roughly 794,000 plays.

2022-06-25

Lyrical Lemonade posts a Minions x Yeat teaser graphic on Instagram, including a Minion Photoshopped as Yeat.

2022-06-26

Cole Bennett posts the full Minion x juice-box clip on Instagram, and @unstable.egirl's "7 tickets to minions rise of gru please" TikTok reaches around 1.6 million plays.

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How to Use This Meme

The common convention is to pair the "I got money" drop with footage of something extremely un-rich, typically Minions merch, an IHOP Minions Meal receipt, or a stack of tickets to Minions: The Rise of Gru8 9. Videos often cut on the beat drop with a smug face or a Minion overlay to sell the fake flex.