Drake’s relationship with Houston is quite significant in regards to his career. Besides initially being pushed to rap ears by the son of Rap-A-Lot Records head J. Prince, Drizzy’s Houston Appreciation Weekend has become something of a city holiday within itself. Despite, claiming H-Town as a second home, not everyone cosigns Drake co-opting the culture. That includes current buzzworthy duo The Sauce Twinz who gained traction earlier this year for their single “2 Legited 2 Quited.” Drake failed to jump on the remix as DX originally reported. The Sauce Twinz then posted a video on Instagram bashing the Toronto rapper/singer’s appropriation of Houston culture. From the looks of things, the straw that broke the camel’s back occurred when Mr. Graham performed The Drip dance during a recent performance. With their beef at a boiling point, member Sauce Walka drops “Wack 2 Wack,” a diss track utilizing Drake’s scathing Meek Mill diss, “Back To Back.”
Is “Wack To Wack” The Best Drake Diss Yet?
Justin: All my favorite diss tracks have three things in common: Truth, humor, clarity. What’s the point of dropping a diss track so coded that few can decipher the diss? Lyrical yo’ mama jokes are always entertaining, but how effective, how much replay value does the track have if not lathered in truth? That’s what makes “Takeover” greater than “Ether:” Facts.
Sauce Walka included all three in his searing attack on Drizzy Drake, “Wack 2 Wack.” It’s absolutely hilarious hearing the TSF-member call Drake a “cracker,” “nigga” and “Cambodian” within the song’s first 38 seconds. When’s the last time you met a cracker-Cambodian-nigga?
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It’s absolutely hilarious hearing him target Drake for using lyrical and literal performance enhancers, and do so while flipping arguably the best bar on “Back To Back:”
“Damn, creators turn impersonators / You got a whole ghostwriter handing you the paper / What happened to the rap game built off of a greatness / Nowadays this shit built off of fakeness / Since when is it cool to use steroids / Ain’t that the same reason they shook Lance Armstrong / Ain’t that the same reason Barry Bonds Hall Of Fame gone? / And y’all tryna say that this nigga’s a rap god?”
What’s also hilarious about Sauce Walka’s sneak attack is the portrait he paints of pre-fame Aubrey. Let him tell it and Drizzy was tricking off in H-Town strip clubs paying to get his balls wet, recklessly going raw dog, searching for solace after losing his acting career. “Degrassi got cut and put your life on hold / So you came to H-Town and started riding that pole… And I ain’t talking about dancin’ you was paying for pussy / I was pimpin’ so I knew about that shit lil’ rookie.” Who knows if it’s true, but it’s definitely a vivid depiction.
Those “Del Frisco” bars, though are consistent with what’s been coming out of the Houston scene for months. I’ve had several sources tell me that Sauce Walka and team ran up on Drake while he was meeting with his team at the high-end restaurant a month prior to Houston Appreciation Weekend. Allegedly Drake again promised to have his verse for “2 Legited 2 Quited” at that time, but reneged and did so disrespectfully. Then Sauce checked him again at the beginning of HAW. Drake missed several events throughout the weekend, only resurfacing once J. Prince landed back in Houston. So when Walka raps, “I came to the dinner table real urgent / Now all week I had you around the city sneaking / You missed about three shows that weekend,” that’s what he’s talking about.
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On the surface, making a diss track because someone stole your dance feels petty. But there’s much more behind “Wack 2 Wack” than just salt and shade. Drake has a direct relationship with the city of Houston and the city has a direct relationship with Drake. He knows that Houston isn’t Hollywood. People don’t say things that they don’t mean reflexively in H-Town, especially when it comes to business—blood and bone, balls and word. TSF had been speaking publicly about the Drake feature since March and suddenly got curbed. Then they turn on the Internet and see Drizzy doing their Drip and call it his dance. Tipping point reached.
Ural: Sauce Walka just provided one of the best diss record no one saw coming this year. If Meek Mill would have dropped something around this caliber, his career would be looking a lot different at the moment. Then again, Drake vs. Meek Mill is long gone and forgotten at this moment. Drizzy’s beef with The Sauce Twinz is more personal than tweets allegedly not being posted. This is over authenticity within Houston’s Hip Hop scene, something that’s almost been the heart of OVO’s career. Walka manages to create a diss track that’s serious, factual, extremely comical and very real. Sure, The Sauce Twinz don’t hold a candle to Drake’s status within pop music. However, Walka does a great job of getting his point across. For “Wack 2 Wack,” ghostwriting allegations take a backseat to Drake relationship with notable stripper and Love & Hip Hop New York cast member Jhonni Blaze, ducking the fade and the best Pokemon reference I’ve heard in years. Most importantly, Walka gives an explanation for those three HAW absences this year which angered many hoping to see theIf You’re Reading This It’s Too Late artist. Was Drake scared of The Sauce?
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“2 Legited 2 Quited” came and went as just another hook driven single from a Southern artist on the cusp of rap notoriety. Looks like Walka has some serious bars beneath the radio and dance friendly exterior. Taking shots at Serena Williams’ built figure was a sort of cheap shot but, it’s thematically no different than the “is that your girl’s tour” line Drake spit on “Back To Back.” Who exactly knows the overarching repercussions “Wack 2 Wack” will have on Houston’s rap scene. Right now, The Sauce Twinz are making good on their status as H-Town antiheroes. While many artists of their caliber hope and pray someone with the status of Drake graces their single, Sauce Walka and Sancho Saucy are essentially giving the middle finger to music’s establishment. Whether or not Drizzy responds is purely up to him at the moment. Though Mill clearly had more star status, Sauce Walka didn’t sound weak. Agree with the diss or not, you have to respect the effort. Now it’s time for everyone sits back and watch how Houston really reacts to their outside hero being disrespected by their very own.
Ural Garrett is a Los Angeles-based journalist and HipHopDX’s Senior Features Writer. When not covering music, video games, films and the community at large, he’s in the kitchen baking like Anita. Follow him on Twitter @Uralg.
Justin “The Company Man” Hunte is the Editor-in-Chief of HipHopDX. He was the host of The Company Man Show on PNCRadio.fm and has covered music, politics, and culture for numerous publications. He is currently based in Los Angeles, California. Follow him on Twitter@TheCompanyMan.
