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Hold up.
Charlamagne Tha God
Every day I wake up.
DJ Envy
Wake your ass up.
Trick Williams
The Breakfast Club. Y' all finished or y' all done?
DJ Envy
Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. La Rose is here as well. We got a special guest in the building from the wwe. Trick Williams, ladies and gentlemen, welcome.
Trick Williams
Let's talk about it. Let's talk about it. What's going on, everybody?
Charlamagne Tha God
How are you?
Trick Williams
I'm doing good, man. Blessed be.
Charlamagne Tha God
Former South Carolina Gamecock wide receiver.
Trick Williams
Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
DJ Envy
Shout out to the crib from Hampton University, sir.
La Rosa
That's right.
Charlamagne Tha God
I didn't know about the Hampton thing. That's true.
Trick Williams
It is. It is.
Commercial Narrator (Shopify)
Wow.
Trick Williams
It is. I went to Hampton my first two years. Transferred.
Angela Yee
Okay, wow.
Trick Williams
Back to the crib.
Charlamagne Tha God
That's interesting.
Trick Williams
Yes, sir.
Charlamagne Tha God
So you know. You know he's. He went to Hampton.
Trick Williams
Absolutely.
Charlamagne Tha God
I'm from South Carolina.
Trick Williams
Of course. Mine's corner.
Charlamagne Tha God
You already know.
DJ Envy
Yes, sir.
Trick Williams
Yes, sir.
La Rosa
You never stop past Baltimore?
Trick Williams
Nah, man, I never been. But I did. I got some seafood. Hey, I got some seafood.
Angela Yee
I know you ain't been in Delaware.
DJ Envy
So how'd you get into wrestling, man? How did this. This wrestling thing come about? Because you started with football. So how'd you get into wrestling?
Trick Williams
Right, man, it was accident. So, like you said, I started at Hampton University, transferred to South Carolina, then had a brief stint with the Philadelphia Eagles, where I went to camp. And then, long story short, I got cut from the Philadelphia Eagles. And trying to figure out what was next for my life, I had an agent who actually got me trying to give me some more tryouts and everything, then got me hooked up with the xfl. I think it was just a blessing because I never played for the xfl. As soon as they sent my information there, WWE reached out to me and said, are you interested in coming in for a tryout?
DJ Envy
Oh, so they reached out to you. So did you have wrestling background or did you ever do anything with wrestling.
Trick Williams
Never wrestled in my life. I was a fan. You know, at three years old, I opened a can of whoop ass watching Stone Cold Steve Austin. So, like, I was always a fan. I watched it, but I never thought about actually wrestling. Like, just didn't know it was an opportunity.
DJ Envy
So then you had to learn how to wrestle, right? Cause it's not just one of those things you can just go slap somebody, just open up a can of whoop ass. So when they reached out to you, was it a training process? It was a program break down. What happened? What got you into your first bout exactly?
Trick Williams
They brought me to Orlando. I tried out, and they said, yo, you got charisma, you got a good look and everything. But how do you try out if
DJ Envy
you never wrestled before?
Trick Williams
I mean, that's a good question, DJ. Let me tell you. So for 20 years, I played football, where if you're good at football, you stay on your feet.
Charlamagne Tha God
Very physical sport.
Trick Williams
A very physical sport. My first day of becoming a WWE Superstar, you learn how to fall, bump, cartwheel, flip, all this other stuff. So it wasn't natural to me. Like, I wasn't a gymnast. I'm still not a gymnast. So they didn't sign me. So I had to move to Philadelphia. Back to Philadelphia. I stayed with my uncle and I trained, I wrestled. Covid broke out. I stayed on the independent scene. You know, you can think about something similar to comedy or something like that, you know, before you make it big and, you know, you got your own shows and you on Wild n Out and stuff like that. You know, you on the Indies, you make a name for yourself. So I had to do that first. Wow.
Charlamagne Tha God
Do you feel pressure to represent, like, black culture in wrestling, or do you just show up and be yourself and let everything play out?
Trick Williams
Yeah, man, I can't be anything else than black, you know what I mean? I can't change my skin, you know what I mean? I'm raised how I was raised, and I feel like the better I do in this field, the better it is for people who look like me, period. But this is who I am. I can't change it.
DJ Envy
How difficult was it to learn wrestling into falling and whatever wrestling is? How difficult was that?
Trick Williams
It takes years. It takes years. Cause playing football is about getting the job done, Catching the touchdown, making the tackle, et cetera. Wrestling's everything, you know, I mean, we. We grab microphones, we talk trash. You know, we got to look good, we got to know our camera angles, we got to feed to the cameras, we got to do this. We got to do that. You got to be the ultimate showman to be good at the craft.
La Rosa
And a lot of people think that it's. It's fake, you know, obviously, whatever, but, like, it's. It's real. Like, y' all really getting hurt?
DJ Envy
Yeah, yeah.
Trick Williams
I mean, my neck hurt right now, but, you know, the way. The way I got pictures like this. Okay, yes, there's a script attached to it. You know, it's predetermined, but, you know, y' all got scripts right now in front of your computer screen. If I had football questions, not scripts, you know, but we do. You know, we prepare. You know, if it's football, you got, you know, a playbook. Basketball, you got plays. The beauty is not in the script. It's in the execution. And Trey Williams is the best executor. So that's why I'm glad you said
Charlamagne Tha God
that, because I always wonder, what's the psychology behind getting 10,000 people to chant your name? Cause it might be a little scripted, but the crowd reaction gotta be real, right?
Trick Williams
Right, right. And that's the beauty of it, because some people do their job so well.
Charlamagne Tha God
You know what I mean?
Trick Williams
There's something about him. The way he walks out and he just got that swag, that aura or something about her. You know what I mean? They like the way she look. It could be her smile. It could be the way, you know, the wind blow that day. Like, you never know what it is. Some people are just that good at
Angela Yee
the craft, and they yelling, whoop that trick when you coming out, and, like, they having a party when you walk out.
Charlamagne Tha God
That's a movement. Yeah, you created a whole movement with this.
Trick Williams
Yeah, man. It was a blessing. You know what? I started nxt, where the crowd just adopted that. You know, my name being Trick Williams, my birth name being Mattrick. You know, Trick was a nickname, so it just. It fit and whooped. That Trick fit with Trick, and it took off.
Charlamagne Tha God
Well, Clarissa Shields does that, too.
Trick Williams
Yeah, yeah.
Charlamagne Tha God
She comes out to whoop that trick.
Trick Williams
She does. She does. That's exactly what she does, too.
DJ Envy
When did you know it was gonna work? Like, when was that time you was like, oh, they really catching on? You remember that match?
Trick Williams
Yeah, I would say. I would say when? So at nxt, we're in front of a set audience in Orlando, and we barely leave the house, like, 400, 500 fans, and they started chanting, whoop that trick there, which is cool. It's like. But we in the same crowd. You know what I mean? You don't really know how the world feels about you. Then we went all the way to California in front of 5,000, and the whoop that Trick chants was crazy. And I won my first title. I beat Dominique, Mysterio, Rey, Mysterio, son. And that's when we knew, like, okay, this movement is something crazy. And it hasn't slowed down since.
DJ Envy
Does WWE call you at that time, be like, hey, we gotta talk. We gotta get some things in. But do they call you when they start hearing it?
Trick Williams
Nah, nah, that's not how Shawn Michaels operate. You know, Shoot, when you start succeeding now, you in the hot seat, you know what I mean? It's like once you get your first album and it hit, now the pressure's on. Cause now you gotta follow up. You gotta be able to. You know what I mean? You gotta meet that pressure to everything that comes with that. So once the people get behind you, that's when the hard work really start. You in the hot seat.
La Rosa
How different is the wrestler metric? I mean, your metric from the wrestler Trick Williams?
Trick Williams
It depends who you ask. Like, people from high school, they be like, oh, that's who he is. Like, he always been like that. But I just turn it up when the red light's on, you know what I mean? I talk mo trash. I mean, you don't walk around life just pimp slapping people and talking trash. You know what I'm saying? There has to be a reason for it. You know what I mean? But you gotta be able to feel these true emotions on the inside somewhere to, you know, make it feel real when it's. When the camera on.
Charlamagne Tha God
What high school you went to?
Trick Williams
Kena.
Charlamagne Tha God
Oh, you went to Kena. Okay, okay, sweetheart. To Kena.
Trick Williams
High School. All right.
Charlamagne Tha God
So you really grew up in Columbia now?
Trick Williams
I'm right there. Right there. My family from St. Matthews, we low country.
Angela Yee
Yeah, you and your fiance, Lash, Legend, Both of you guys made it to the main roster. And I saw you talking about how, like, that was like a cheat code. Cause y' all getting to travel the world and do all these things. So what's that been like?
Trick Williams
It's been amazing, man. You know, she's with me all the time. When I say all the time. All the time. So, you know, and, you know, it just. It help you feel a little bit more supported, you know, when you in these foreign rooms, when you dealing with people who are different than yourself, you know what I'm saying? Like, I know my lady rock with me, you know, regardless of how I go, regardless, you know, I debut on smackdown. Shoot. I'm good. My lady, you know, she here. So we make sure that we confident and we prepared to go put on the best show.
DJ Envy
Anybody running to your house, that's the worst house.
Trick Williams
And look, man. And people say, like, oh, they be nervous. They want to make sure that their partner does well when they perform and everything. My fiance, she's six foot. You know what I'm saying? 195, 200. Like basketball. You know, MVP, you know, Seattle Storm, all that. So I'll be nervous for her. I'd be nervous for everybody she in the ring with. You know, I mean, she liked to fight.
Charlamagne Tha God
Even Jade.
Trick Williams
Jade don't want that.
Charlamagne Tha God
Jade.
Trick Williams
Look, I respect Jade, and, you know, she from. You know, she cool people. But there's only one Lash.
La Rosa
Is it challenging working with your fiance, too? Do you find any challenges with it? I know y' all are supportive of each other, but, you know, you still together?
Trick Williams
Yeah. I would take these challenges over the other challenges.
La Rosa
I got you.
Trick Williams
Yeah. Of not seeing each other. Cause, shoot, we never home. So, like, if she was at the crib, if was doing something else, then it'd be difficult.
DJ Envy
And how did y' all meet?
Trick Williams
In the business.
DJ Envy
In the business?
Trick Williams
Yeah. A lot of wrestlers date wrestlers. You know, that's just how it is. Like, you date where you at, you know? You know, that's a long nother story. I don't know if we got time for that. You know what I mean?
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Trick Williams
All right, let's talk about it. Okay. Tripp Williams. So, you know, we had the PC. That's what we call where we train, the performance center. And, you know, it's just people from college, people from different backgrounds, people from what we call the Indies. Like I said before, football players, basketball players, all this sort of. I'll say 90% of people come in in a relationship two months in. I'll say there's about 5% of them still in that relationship, because that's just how the business is. Like, once you in it, it's like a whole nother world. And if you're not in it, a lot of people just don't understand, like, what you mean. You gotta stay in train with, you know, women who barely dress and everything, or why, you know, guys don't never got their shirt on. It's a lot for people, you know, who. Who not in it. Long story short, you know, I was in a low relationship, but, you know, me and Lash, we was cool. We was friends. And, you know, that didn't work out. So I Saw Lash, you know, and people thought we was talking different stuff like that, but no, we was just cool. We was just friends. I tried to, you know, press some game on her, cut a promo.
Charlamagne Tha God
What'd you say?
Trick Williams
Nothing. I was stumbling. I was stuttering all over the place.
Charlamagne Tha God
Damn.
Trick Williams
I went, hit the trick shot. Yeah. And I'm a promo guy. Like, I like to talk.
Angela Yee
Yeah.
Trick Williams
And, you know, I went to talk to her. You and me together.
Angela Yee
She wasn't with it at first, though, right?
Trick Williams
Nah, she friend zone me quick.
Charlamagne Tha God
How do you know when you in the friend zone?
Trick Williams
I mean, she was like, nah, you my homie friend dat me up. That's friends. How did you feel in that moment? But I felt, you know what I'm saying, it was a friend zone, like, because, you know, she. All right, here's the truth about the matter, you know, she wasn't single neither. You know what I'm saying? So she did what she had to do. But, you know, we never crossed that line then and there. But, like, we just grew as friends. And then one day, man, you know, it is what it is.
Charlamagne Tha God
So how'd you get out to friends, though, man?
Trick Williams
Just being me. Had to. Baby steps. Work your way up. Yeah. Once you get your big toe in, the rest, you know. Yeah.
La Rosa
He was our best friend. Yeah.
Angela Yee
How does it help you guys? Brands? Just because I know you have your singular brands, but together. Because now they're calling you, like, one of the wwe, like, power couples, straight up.
Trick Williams
Yeah. I mean, that was never the goal. Like, we wasn't trying to be a power couple, per se. You know, I just rot with her. But it definitely helps, you know what I mean? Like, you have double the reason to be invested into both of us now. Because, like, if you're a Tripp Williams fan, then you Rob with Lash. You Rob with Lash, you Rob with Trick. And, you know, it just works like that.
Charlamagne Tha God
Do y' all hit each other with wrestling moves around the house? Just randomly, like.
Trick Williams
Yeah, man, she abusive. Damn, she abusive, man. Like, I need help.
DJ Envy
Clothesline you in there. Boom.
La Rosa
Do you wish you stayed a friend?
Charlamagne Tha God
The funny thing.
Trick Williams
No, the funny thing is, you know, like, bro, she like the strongest girl in wwe. No Cap, you know what I'm saying?
Angela Yee
She no joke.
Trick Williams
She no joke. But in the house, she just so. Oh, help me. You know what I mean? Oh, no, we got lizard in the house. We stay in Florida. You know what I mean? I hate lizards. I'm like, but you did body slam with 300 pound man last night. You know what?
Angela Yee
I mean, but that means you put her in a really safe space because she's very successful. And I watched you guys on the Sports Bible to agree to disagree. I watched that, and I was. I loved how you guys interact because I can tell for her to be so successful, you're so successful as well. Normally, there's this, like, thing when you're a successful woman where you have to always, like, you're on guard and you're always protecting what you built. She just be fully like, my man's here. When. When you're. You know what I mean? That's a great thing to see.
Trick Williams
That's right. Lauren had to put my foot down. Sometimes you got a body, slam them and let her know, you know what I mean? Safely.
Angela Yee
We don't know if this is.
DJ Envy
I think she could beat you, though.
Trick Williams
I ain't gonna front, man. A lot of people think that.
La Rosa
Took off a coat and got on another coat.
Trick Williams
Let me tell you something about New York. Like, she say, normally, I don't got no shirt on, but today I was prepared, man.
DJ Envy
I.
Charlamagne Tha God
Last night, he from South Carolina in Florida. This wasn't no job.
Trick Williams
You never get used to it. Nah, man. No, I don't play that now.
Charlamagne Tha God
In wrestling, you gotta balance ego and storytelling, right? How do you stay confident without letting the character of Trick Williams consume the real you?
Trick Williams
I mean, honestly, I think just. Man, people around me keeping me grounded. Like my mama, she'll let me know if I'm tripping, you know what I mean? Before I cut a promo and I'm finna say something on live tv, I always think about my mama. I know she's watching. You know me shout out to my mama.
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Trick Williams
He had surgery last night, but, yeah, but the people around me just keep me grounded, man. Like, they always. You know what I mean? You know, once I take off the shades, the coat, the lemon pepper steppers.
La Rosa
I know that's right.
Trick Williams
You know what I'm saying? Once I take all that off, lash at the crib, like, take out the trash. You know what I mean? I like, oh, yeah, let me take out the trash. You know, just keeping it real
Charlamagne Tha God
historically, right? I feel like wrestling hasn't always portrayed black wrestlers with a lot of depth.
Trick Williams
Right.
Charlamagne Tha God
Like, do you feel like this era is finally allowing black talent to show personality behind the stair, behind beyond the stereotypes?
Trick Williams
Right. I mean, first thing first, I gotta say, shout out to Nick Khan, Triple H. Because, man, they've allowed me to be myself, like, 100%. Like, all these promos I'm cutting, you know, all these different things, it come from my head. And they say, man, go be you. You know what I mean? Go get yourself over. Like, let's see. Let's see who you are. Let's see how it works. And it's been working, you know what I mean? And it's not just me. Like, three of us moved up from NXT together. Javon Evans, Obafemi, all brothers, and everybody's eating right now. And that's probably. You can't say any other time in the history of WWE that a young black man is, you know, come into the business and got pushed like this. So that's no shade to anybody who came before us. Because I'm grateful for, you know, the Shelton Benjamins, the Booker T's, et cetera. But, you know, they laid down footwork for us to get this opportunity.
DJ Envy
Now, wrestling is entertainment, but it's also a business as well. When did you realize the business and say, you know what? I have to make myself a brand so I could be seen and I could be heard. When did that come about?
Trick Williams
Yeah, I mean, very early. Because, like, I wasn't always like, you know, people's favorite, you know, people's pick. Like, I started off, I was like a hype man. I would talk trash on somebody else's behalf, and I wanted matches, I wanted the spotlight, I wanted that stuff. I was like, dang, man. Like, I need to make myself popping so I can get on the show myself. Right. You know what I mean? And so I started doing my own ventures on social media, you know what I mean? Making little skits, making rap songs. I make diss tracks, you know what I mean, on my opponents, doing whatever it tastes like, bro. Like I gotta get myself popping. And so I'm building my own brand now.
Angela Yee
At the same time, I was reading about a possible face turn that they're saying might happen with you and explain to the people because I had to teach myself last night. Yeah, it's where the villain goes to the good guy.
Trick Williams
Yeah, that's right. Like in. In storytelling period, there's. There's a good guy, bad guy, you know, one on one, for storytelling. It gets more complex. But, you know, same thing that we do in wrestling. And right now I'm supposed to be what we call a heel, a bad guy. But you know what I mean? I'm one of those heels that people tend to like, you know what I mean?
Charlamagne Tha God
Everybody loves the heel.
Trick Williams
Everybody loves the hill.
Charlamagne Tha God
Stone Cole was a heel.
Trick Williams
Stone Cold was a heel.
Charlamagne Tha God
He turned into a baby face, you know, ball.
Trick Williams
Yeah, okay.
DJ Envy
Yeah.
Angela Yee
A person who don't really watch, y'.
Charlamagne Tha God
All.
Angela Yee
I always know there's good guy, bad guy, but I didn't know that the terms of it.
Charlamagne Tha God
The Rock was a hill, the Rock
Trick Williams
was a hill, Hollywood rock, you know. And see, me personally, I like being the bad guy because when you the bad guy, you got more freedom to be yourself.
La Rosa
Yeah.
Trick Williams
You know, when you. You gotta live in this little box when you're a good guy. Like, hey, how you doing, kids? Hey, let me sign this for you. You know what I mean? That's not real life. I feel more like a politician, you know what I mean? As a good guy, as a heel, I ain't worried about pleasing.
DJ Envy
I ain't signing your damn autograph. Tell them, punk ass kid.
Trick Williams
I mean, I still might sign, but you know what I mean?
Angela Yee
But so it is. Actually that is gonna. That's the thing. Cause it's reported, but I haven't seen it.
Trick Williams
Oh, man, don't believe nothing you see on. Y' all know, that's what I'm asking. Online is online, it was reported that
Angela Yee
the face turn is happening. That you're going to go from the bad guy to the man.
Trick Williams
Don't believe Twitter. Nah, Twitter, they say what they want to say.
La Rosa
So you still the bad guy right now?
Trick Williams
I'm always the bad guy.
La Rosa
Okay. That's why you saying don't believe it, don't believe it.
Trick Williams
I mean, it doesn't matter, because at this point, I just gotta stay Trick Williams, you know what I mean? That's what's working. Good guy, bad guy. I gotta talk my trash. I gotta look good. I gotta wear a coat underneath my coat. None of that. I ain't gonna have no shirt on. Let's talk about it.
Charlamagne Tha God
It's crazy. Cause I'm thinking about it. I don't think there's a good guy I ever really liked. I always liked the bad guy. Even, like.
Trick Williams
You know what I'm saying?
Charlamagne Tha God
Like, I like when Hulk Hogan became Hollywood hog.
Trick Williams
Ho. Yeah. What about Cena?
Charlamagne Tha God
To me, he's like a heel too, I guess. I mean, he did. He turned to a good guy.
Angela Yee
He's kind of heroist, though.
Trick Williams
Yeah. Cena was a good guy pretty much majority of his career until, like, this last little run.
Charlamagne Tha God
I don't know. I like Sting when he was jumping out the Raptors.
Trick Williams
Okay.
Charlamagne Tha God
You know, dressed in all black.
Trick Williams
Yeah, he's a good guy. Okay.
Charlamagne Tha God
But we didn't know for so long what he was when he went to the Crow era.
Trick Williams
Yeah. Yeah.
Charlamagne Tha God
So I don't know. I don't know.
Trick Williams
To me personally, like, I don't think it even matter. Good guy, bad guy, people like what they like, period. You know what I mean? That's how I look at it. Like, good guy, bad guy. I don't really care. Like, I just wanted to be good and entertaining. That's all I care.
Angela Yee
When I looked at it, I was like, okay, this just means they know that the star is rising. So they're trying to make sure that they, like, put around you whatever you need. Because, I mean, you're already huge in it. But they see it getting bigger because everyone likes you. You're likable.
Trick Williams
Yeah, Yeah. I mean, it is a compliment. So, yeah, I say I just wanted to be good. I don't really care.
La Rosa
You said you used to make diss tracks. You. You do music. You're into music.
Trick Williams
I do music. You know what I mean? Like, I ain't gonna say, like, oh, I'm hard down trying to be a rapper, but, you know, I'm musically talented.
La Rosa
Yeah, yeah. Something that you do in your free time.
Trick Williams
Something I do in my free time.
Angela Yee
Yeah.
La Rosa
Do you make your own? You still make the music or you still make it when you were a hype man? Okay.
Trick Williams
Yeah, I still make music. I still got some projects that I'm waiting to leak out, but, you know. Yeah. Just waiting for the right time.
La Rosa
Yeah.
DJ Envy
And is there heavy jealousy in wrestling? Cause I Look at it like it's. But so many wrestlers that can make it to that spotlight, right? So it gotta be wrestlers hating on each other, Gotta be heavy jealousy. It's not like where there's bunch of teams, bunch of positions. Like wrestling is very small. Do you deal with a lot of jealousy and how do you handle it all the time?
Trick Williams
I think that's in every field. But in wrestling specifically, I'm new to the game of wrestling, you know what I mean? I played football for 20 years. I've been wrestling for five, six years. So to somebody who's been wrestling for 15 years, they look at me like, why is he in the top spot? You know what I mean?
La Rosa
Like, you a rookie.
Trick Williams
I'm a rookie. You know what I mean? If he wasn't 6 foot 5 and £250 and had abs and had the good hair and chains and talked so much trash, then he wouldn't be that good.
Charlamagne Tha God
That's a lot of hate.
Trick Williams
That may be just like everybody else, you know what I'm saying? But like, that's the game of wrestling, you know, Point blank, period. So, man, you know how that is. You just, you shove that off.
La Rosa
But anybody ever try to hurt you in a ring behind that?
Trick Williams
I hope not, because I mean. Cause at that point you gotta defend yourself. Yeah. Has that happened?
La Rosa
No, I'm saying, has it happened? Has anybody ever tried to.
Trick Williams
I don't.
La Rosa
I don't think off script and really like try to hurt you.
Trick Williams
I don't think it's pure malicious intent. There's some people who are just throwed off in light violence and if they do something like that, they expect for you to do the same thing back to them. But you know, somebody's saying, I don't like trick and I'm gonna try to punch him in the face as hard as I can.
DJ Envy
What's the worst thing that happened to you in the ring? That wasn't planned.
Trick Williams
Mm. I tell you, man, I ran straight into a barricade ends. I got six stitches right here. It's bleeding on TV now. I'll take that back. I was climbing a cage, a match I wasn't even in. Mind you, I was still a hype man. And dude just hit me with a chair like through the gate and kind of sliced me open right here. You know, a brutal match called war games, when, you know, weapons are allowed, but, you know, stuff happens, you know,
La Rosa
he was really trying to get in.
Trick Williams
Yeah, right. You know, no stunt doubles. You gotta do whatever.
DJ Envy
So when you say hype man, Break that down. What a hype man is. Cause you said that wasn't your match. So you just was in the back, like, it.
Trick Williams
I'm coming, you know, like, like, like, like. Come on, come on.
DJ Envy
I said, what you want me to do with this? I said, paul, up.
Trick Williams
Yo.
DJ Envy
But back. Explain to people what a hype man is.
Charlamagne Tha God
What you want me to do with.
Trick Williams
What you want me to do with that, man?
Charlamagne Tha God
What you Hampton Pirates, we supposed to
Trick Williams
look out for another.
DJ Envy
So explain what a hype man is for people that don't.
La Rosa
I've ever heard of a hype man in wrestling.
Trick Williams
Yeah, like, you know, Busta Rounds, you know, Spiff. You know what I mean? Like, you know, Busta is the main attraction, you know? And I was a guy making sure that, hey, my guy wins at all times. I'm doing everything in my power to make sure that they look like a million bucks. Gotcha. And I did it. Well, but, you know, that was the fun part. Like, you can build a rapport with the audience. You know, you get comfortable in these different settings and scenarios. You know, I'm on the microphone. I'm doing intros and all this different stuff. I'm getting better and leveling up, you know, on somebody else's behalf, you know, just growing behind the scenes, you know, I mean, just working on my craft until, you know, I became the guy.
DJ Envy
Do you pick that? Cause, like, somebody be like, just random dude. Like, I'm gonna be tricks hype man and just start.
Trick Williams
Nah, nah, it's not like that. I mean, like, there's a lot of people who make decisions who kind of put you in position. But what the problem was, like, I was new into wrestling, so you can't just walk in and be good, you know, I mean, it's like any other craft. You got to take years and years and years to brush up on your moveset and being a performer. And I needed those reps in time to develop Gotcha.
Charlamagne Tha God
How different is Next from wwe?
Trick Williams
Yeah, so I was. I would say NXT is like Def Comedy Jam back in the day, where, you know what I mean? It wasn't like the mainstream, but had that good, gritty, underground feel, you know what I mean? As opposed to, like, you know, the big specials and everything like that. The kings of comedy. That's Smackdown and Raw, you know what I mean? But Def Comedy Jam, that's how we feel. You know, it's more intimate, it's more raw. Like, people hungry. I would say, like college sports, but they're getting paid now, so so is
Charlamagne Tha God
it the same level of resources and everything else?
Trick Williams
Yeah, yeah. Same performance center with bass right there in Orlando. People hungry, man, like, all different backgrounds, like martial artists, you know, basketball, football, hockey, table tennis. You know, Indies, like, everybody who's trying to break into the business and blow up, you know, they got to come through NXT more times than I.
DJ Envy
You miss football at all?
Trick Williams
Sometimes I look at it like they just had the combine last week. I'm like, man, like, you know, I feel like there's some untapped potential out there, but I feel like I'm where I'm supposed to be, so I'm cool with it.
La Rosa
Is. Is more. Is it more rules at WWWE compared to NXT? Like, y' all could get away with more at next.
Trick Williams
Well, nxt, I would say now it's way more, like, way more strict at NXT because you're not as polished. So they want to make sure that you don't do nothing crazy or stupid on tv. At nxt, like, people been in the business three minutes, you know what I mean? And they on live television, so, you know, there's more producing, there's more making sure that people are prepared for tv. By the time you get to smackdown the Raw, it's literally your own brand. Like, go do what you gotta do to make it work. Under the confines of what they give you permission, of course.
Charlamagne Tha God
Is it still lucrative?
Trick Williams
Oh, yeah, for sure, for sure, for sure. Like, definitely worth the switch from football to wrestling.
Charlamagne Tha God
Would you rather be a Hall of Fame wide receiver or hall of Fame?
Trick Williams
And wrestling, I'll say this, what I love about wrestling being a superstar is the fact I am a superstar. I took the helmet off, and people know me in different countries, man. I go to Jamaica on vacation. You know, these whoop, that trick in patois.
La Rosa
Yeah.
Trick Williams
You know what I mean? I go to Mexico and Saudi Arabia, man. They only speak English. They chant, whoop, that trick. Football is a beautiful sport. I played it for 20 years, but it's very American, you know what I mean? Like, wrestling, you good around the world. So it's just a whole different feeling that even though what's out there, you live in that matrix or whatever you doing, but once you branch out, you'd be like, whoa, wrestling is huge, man.
Charlamagne Tha God
I know. WrestleMania 42 is happening in April. How does WrestleMania feel? Because to me, on the outside looking in, I always look at that as wrestling.
Trick Williams
Super bowl. It is. Okay. Yeah, it is Super Bowl. It's right back in Las Vegas again this year. Las Vegas is full of Shows, entertainment, magic shows. But we are the show to come to see the 18th and 19th April, and your boy's gonna have a match, I guarantee you.
Charlamagne Tha God
Is it pressure?
Trick Williams
It's a lot of pressure. Like you said, it's a Super bowl, and, like, that's what everybody. That's what it's all about. You know what I mean? Like, you wanna. You wanna main event wrestlemania, you wanna have a match on the biggest stage of them all. 60,000 fans, night one, 60,000 fans, night two. 120,000 different people there chanting your name, going crazy. Like, that's what it's all about. The biggest lights possible, the biggest production. All the stars come out. It's a good feeling. Yeah, man. It's about to go down.
La Rosa
Who is your ideal opponent for WrestleMania 42?
Trick Williams
Whoever want it, man. You know, I ain't trying to brag, but you know what I'm saying? Like, Trick is the hottest new talent on the roster right now. So, I mean, anybody who's trying to get a little jump back into their deal, they want to take on Trick Williams for WrestleMania. Absolutely.
DJ Envy
We appreciate you for joining us, and good luck. WrestleMania goes down to eighth.
Charlamagne Tha God
Was your name supposed to be Matric, or was it supposed to be something else like Matrix or something?
Trick Williams
My name is Magic Man. My dad's name is Patrick. My mom named Monica, and you know how we do. You know what I'm saying? You from South Carolina. You know how it goes.
Charlamagne Tha God
Okay, okay, okay.
Trick Williams
Yeah, yeah. So my mama's middle name is Monique.
Angela Yee
Named Rosa. Lo. Rosa. Yeah, I've been doing that.
Trick Williams
You know how we do, man? We creative like that.
Angela Yee
That's crazy, because I thought you was
La Rosa
a little Spanish until I. Yeah.
Charlamagne Tha God
Lauren LaRosa.
Angela Yee
I didn't know my mom. His mom is Patrick. His mom. I mean, his dad is Patrick, his mom's mom. It's the same thing. Black people just love putting names together.
La Rosa
Yeah. Okay.
Trick Williams
Well, there you have it.
DJ Envy
It's Trick Williams from the wwe.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yes.
DJ Envy
It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.
Trick Williams
Let's talk about it. Thank y'.
La Rosa
All haven't so confused about Every day I wake up.
Trick Williams
Wake your ass up. The Breakfast Club.
Charlamagne Tha God
We are finished or y' all done?
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Date: March 6, 2026
Hosts: DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God, (with La Rosa and Angela Yee)
Guest: WWE Superstar Trick Williams
This episode features WWE rising star Trick Williams in a lively, candid conversation about his unconventional journey from football to professional wrestling, his approach to authenticity and representation in WWE, the dynamics of sharing both love and the ring with fiancée and fellow wrestler Lash Legend, and his philosophy on branding, crowd engagement, and the business side of sports entertainment. Trick also opens up about handling jealousy in the industry, brushes with injury, and what WrestleMania means to him.
Trick Williams’ conversation is energetic, funny, real, and packed with insight on sports entertainment, authenticity, and personal growth. His story shows the importance of seizing unconventional opportunities, embracing identity, and carving a unique path—whether by turning a nickname into a movement or turning backstage skepticism into motivation. The dynamic with Lash Legend adds heart and humor, while the business and craft insights show Trick is as savvy outside the ring as he is charismatic inside.