Sauce Walka represents the whole lot hip-hop has grown to like about Texas: the sticky slang, Southern charisma and splashy swag. Whereas the Houston rapper’s glittering diamond grills and kinetic persona make him onerous to overlook, it is his convincing rhymes that seize a lot of the consideration. There is not any doubt what Sauce is spitting is the reality. That carries over into his enterprise savvy with a eager eye for making one thing out of nothing, which is why he is had success as an unbiased artist all through his profession. That entrepreneurial spirit shines via within the bars Sauce delivers within the XXL Cypher Lab, offered by the must-see boxing occasion: Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson, dwell on Netflix on Friday, November 15.
The Saucinator, a nickname fellow rappers Ferg and Ab-Soul gave him throughout their cypher linkup, has been kicking rhymes since he was 3 years previous. He recorded his first mixtape in 1996. By 14, the Down South spitter stopped writing verses and let the lyrics circulation out of his mouth straight to the mic. Sauce Walka’s skill to captivate an viewers together with his phrases grew to become second nature. Arising within the south aspect of Houston, freestyling was what he calls the “ABCs, Hooked on Phonics” for the Houston tradition of rapping. It was already in him as a scholar of native hip-hop legends DJ Screw and the Screwed Up Click on.
The 34-year-old rapper has greater than 20 initiatives below his belt, which function the drip hop that has grow to be synonymous together with his identify. In response to him, he created the “sauce, the drip, the splash” in hip-hop. The Sauce Manufacturing unit, the unbiased file label he began, has offered him with the muse to construct an empire together with his personal music in addition to signal a slew of artists. “Ghetto Gospel,” “Made By Wealthy God” and “Harmful Daringer” with Conway The Machine, along with his most up-to-date launch, Saucefather 2, illustrate the perception and introspection from the view of a former road hustler-turned-businessman—all in his distinct drawl. His XXL Cypher Lab verse finds him doing a lot of the identical as he articulates what he is seen on either side.
“It’s simply roughly me preaching the ghetto gospel, man,” Sauce Walka tells XXL. “It’s a message and it’s a duty that I maintain to offer a sure stage of perception and a sure stage of data to assist the cognitive change that is happening on the earth… It is as much as you because the artist to rap a few bunch of nothing or rap about one thing. I simply be rapping about one thing. I’ve substance… I acquired one thing to say. From Texas, we acquired one thing to say.”
The extra Sauce Walka speaks, the extra data he drops. He is a say-it-with-your-chest scholar who’s earned a level in road economics. The revered MC evokes these watching his strikes to create a legacy that results in fortune via onerous work and expertise. He believes that mixture can go additional than counting on each relationships and favor. As a serial entrepreneur, Sauce is making ready to drop extra initiatives earlier than 2024 involves an in depth. He is making an attempt to “maintain it actual spicy.”
“I acquired a number of new albums releasing by the tip of the 12 months,” he says. “I even have compilations dropping with numerous my artists this 12 months. I simply plan to be a greater CEO, diversify my portfolio and enterprise. I acquired numerous different enterprise ventures that I am engaged on proper now outdoors of hip-hop and simply dripping and splashing in excessive style, man, you recognize what I am saying? I’ve numerous totally different merchandise that I will promote this subsequent 12 months and I simply maintain elevating the bar in my lyrics, you recognize what I am saying? I acquired TV exhibits on the best way, industrial actual property, studios. I accomplish that a lot. I am a serial entrepreneur. So simply count on extra entrepreneurship from Sauce Walka.”
Oooweee to that.
Try Sauce Walka’s verse within the XXL Cypher Lab and his interview, offered by the must-see boxing occasion: Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson, dwell on Netflix on Friday, November 15 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.
