Yung Gravy Brings The Holiday Vibes With Playlist Picks & His New Foot Locker Campaign (Exclusive)

“One of the commandments of the Gravy Train is to ever enactment fresh,” Yung Gravy tells HollywoodLife when discussing his caller concern with Foot Locker. “Fresh” is 1 of the aspects of the brand’s Holiday 2022 campaign, featuring the Foot Locker Holiday House Party. Gravy – who joined chap musicians Bia and Lunay, on with personalities similar Ralph Romeo and Tamara Dhia, for this bashed – lent his people cool to the chilly run to assistance his followers adhere to that commandment. “Foot Locker helps execute that [freshness], on with different pillar of my philosophy, which is flexing,” helium adds.

Flexing and freshness are what Yung Gravy has been astir this year. He scored his highest charting azygous to day — “Betty (Get Money),” disconnected his 2022 album, Marvelous – adding different Gold certification to his increasing database of accomplishments. He continues to turn his Gravy Train online – 7 cardinal followers connected TikTok, 2.1 connected Instagram – portion ne'er losing show of himself. Such dedication to forging one’s way is wherefore Foot Locker enlisted Yung Gravy for the campaign…even if he’s the archetypal to admit helium wasn’t a natural-born sneakerhead.

“I didn’t truly get shoes for Christmas increasing up, I utilized to bash competitory instrumentality skiing, truthful I usually got skis cogwheel instead,” says the Minnesota autochthonal (who besides holds Swiss citizenship, courtesy of his father.) Though Gravy grew up with achromatic diamonds and toques, helium yet recovered his way. “I didn’t get into the footwear crippled until aft my days of younker concluded but backmost successful the day,” helium tells HL. “I had a bully postulation of Lakais and Supras, which were fashionable astatine the time.”

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To those who spot shoes much for their functionality than their form, it’s hard to spot them arsenic thing to collect. “I didn’t get sneakerhead civilization astatine archetypal either,” says Gravy. “It’s 1 of those obsessions that builds implicit clip and gets stronger with each caller addition. It feels large to look astatine your afloat postulation and prime retired a brace of shoes that’s going to acceptable your day. It’s besides an concern successful yourself due to the fact that shoes clasp their worth if you dainty them right.”

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So, for those looking to leap feet-first into the sneakerhead scene, this play would beryllium the perfect time. And the Foot Locker Holiday House Party run is determination to help. “The Foot Locker Holiday Party puts each bureau parties to shame,” Gravy shares astir the experience. “It was a big, festive location enactment with much shoes. I haven’t been to a enactment similar that successful a minute, truthful it brought maine backmost to my pre-rapper mentality.”

“My archetypal representation of Foot Locker is astatine the Apache Mall successful Rochester, Minnesota, baby,” helium shares with his trademark swagger. “In mediate school, we utilized to motorcycle determination regular to bent around, triumph escaped Taco Bell, and bash different random activities. My buddy worked astatine the Foot Locker store, truthful we had a mandatory halt determination each time.”

There are worst ways to walk the vacation play than with caller shoes from Foot Locker and a Mexican Pizza meal. For those who mightiness not deliberation that’s precisely the tone of these past fewer weeks of 2022, Gravy has your back, similar a 6’7″ gangly Santa Claus.

“I’ve made 2 Christmas songs that I’d recommend,” Gravy tells HL when asked for immoderate recommendations for a 2022 Holiday Playlist. “‘Flex connected Christmas’ and ‘Bought The Plug a Present.’ Both of those slap and I’d urge ‘Gravy for Pope‘ and ‘Magic‘ excessively which person immoderate bully vacation vibes to them.”

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The Gravy Train volition person those connected repetition erstwhile Foot Locker launches the  Foot Locker Holiday House Party planetary run connected Dec. 16. Kicking disconnected successful Asia, the solemnisation volition question the globe implicit 24 hours, hitting stores successful Seoul, Paris, New York, and Los Angeles.

After that, Foot Locker volition observe with its customers each play agelong with planned in-store celebrations and giveback moments astatine its stores globally. For much information, sojourn www.footlocker.com.