Houston rapper Sauce Walka did an impromptu interview with Dallas Global and he had a lot to say about the business of hip hop and some black people’s lack of understanding of the value of a team.
Known for having the persona of a pimp and having several white women around him, Sauce Walka has drawn the positive and negative attention of the likes of Houston’s finest in music and Canadian rapper Drake.
While many headlines got caught up in the racist undertones of the rappers interview, they missed the very essence of what Walka was trying to say. When asked why he was into white women, he responded that his “baby mama is black” and suggested all his relationships were based in business. Simple as that.
Before listing the qualities of success in business, the “We Did It” rapper said that black people need to understand the value of teamwork.
“Being on time, being accurate, being prominent, being dominant, and understanding it takes a team to succeed in a dream,” he emphasized. “Black people have been — poisoned, confused and told that ‘f*** everybody, you don’t need everybody — a real motherf***** do it by themselves, a real man and a real woman that’s independent’. Motherf***** the car that you drive ain’t independent.”
Then, Sauce Walka broke down the mechanics of a car and how dependent each part is on another.
“Each car is a full functioning f****** team, and without any one of these pieces of the team not working on the car what does your car do? Breakdown,” he continued. “My black people don’t understand this train of thought.”
Sauce Walka attributes his success to a team who is willing to see the bigger picture and work towards a common goal. Although Walka’s philosophy is muddled with bias and prejudice that has been criticized by black women as characteristics of self-hate, he does make a point about black people having a heavily independent mindset that prevents them, at times, from being able to work in a team with other black people to work towards a goal that may indirectly benefit them or take time to directly impact them.
Some people just can’t see the vision. Some people would rather “split up the vote” and have each person chase their individual dreams, instead of gathering resources with a group of people to accomplish a goal.
What tends to happen is that one or two make their dreams come true because they end up adopting a team that consists of other races along the way, while the others fall off and end up working at a company where they have to support a random person’s dream all for a check.
Still, it would be unfair to not point out that Sauce Walka’s outdated ideas about women and the rampant misogyny and idolization of money that he gloats about in his music are subjects of tremendous scrutiny and protest by the latest global movements.
It’s possible that he’s been able to get away with it because his music bangs and he resonates in the south, but if he ever wishes to be successful on a larger scale, he will eventually have to mature his thinking. Otherwise, the politically correct sharks will try to take him under.
Check out Sauce Walka’s hood business 101 advice in the clip below:
