Sauce Money

Streets is wa- what scene was that?

The song with, um, Jay, uh, Sauce Money.

They're in, like, a-

This Goes Out to My Brooklyn Crew, that one?

I'm the C-A-S and the O-V-A, that's my name, Casanova Fly.

Sauce Money, a Brooklyn rapper known for working with Jay-Z early in his career sums up how having ghostwriters can make you lose respect.

Basically, if you had a writer, you wasn't real.

When they hear you, when they hear the song, they wanna know you started the process from beginning to end.

If you have somebody coming in doing that for you, it's a lack of respect kinda thing.

Like you said, it's taboo to do that.

At the same time, Sauce Money admitted that it could be very difficult for a rapper to be able to have the image and popularity to sell millions of records while also being talented as a writer.

It turns out that some of the rap game's most legendary artists have actually had secret careers writing for other rappers.

me? You have worked with a lot of East Coast artists.

You had a record with Sauce Money and Fat Joe, Get Breaded.

Ooh, Sauce Money and Fat Joe.

You know too much, bro.

Sauce Money was on Rockefeller.

Or he was one of the early Jay-Z affiliated artists.

I don't know if he was officially signed to Rockefeller, but they were very much in the beginning together.