Wanna Be a Baller is a track by Houston rapper Lil Troy, released in the late 1990s and built around a catchy, aspirational hook about wealth and status. Long after its chart run, the hook found a second life online, where short clips became shorthand for flexing, winning, and living large in memes, sports edits, and TikTok videos. Its simple, instantly quotable phrasing keeps it useful across generations, because the joke or boast works even for viewers who have never heard the full song.