Go Yayo and Sauce Walka are two of the hottest rappers from Texas.
Even though they from different cities, they been in a heated beef
that produced some of the hardest diss tracks of 2020.
Go Yayo is a rapper from Fort Worth, TX, known for tracks like Boom and IDK.
He grew up on the South Side of the city and was affiliated with cripps from Glen Garden.
His pops was from Rollin 60 cripps and he grew up around violence and gangs.
When he was 15, he saw his cousin get killed right in front of him in a drive-by shooting
and the rapper lost a lot of other friends to gun violence growing up.
As a teen, Go Yayo was heavy in the streets.
At 18, he got arrested for attempted murder and was facing 20 years in prison.
Before he got locked up, he dropped a song that was doing well in the city.
While he was sitting down, his homies started a Free Yayo movement,
which helped him build more of a buzz.
He did 10 months in jail but ended up beating the charge.
So, when he got out, he started taking music more seriously.
He dropped his first mixtape Super Saiyan Yayo in 2015
and followed up right after with No More Free Yayo, It Costs.
He started gaining attention with his unique flow
and quickly became one of the hottest rappers on the rise in Texas.
Sauce Walka is a rapper from Houston who has been in the game for a minute.
He started rapping in 2007 under the name A-Walk in a group called Mostheard.
He changed his rap name to Sauce Walka in 2014
and formed a duo with his brother Sancho Saucy.
He also started his own label called The Sauce Factory or TSF, the same year.
Sauce Walka is well respected in the streets of Houston.
He’s affiliated with the bloods and has a major influence in his city.
He’s known for starting the term drip,
which he often uses in songs like Drip God and All About the Drip.
Sauce Walka first went viral in 2015,
after dissing Drake for stealing Houston culture on a song called Wack 2 Wack.
He also had a public beef with Young Thug in 2019
after Sauce criticized rappers for using the term slime.
Thug is one of the main rappers who uses the word slime in his music.
So, he sent shots back at Sauce and they been beefing ever since.
But despite all the enemies Sauce Walka made in the industry,
he’s also collaborated with a lot of high-profile rappers
like A$AP Rocky, Chief Keef, and Travis Scott.
Early on Sauce Walka and Go Yayo were cool with each other.
Go Yayo used to go out to Houston and hang with Sauce Walka and other TSF artists like Peso Peso.
But a few events ended their relationship and turned them against each other.
Before he started beefin with Sauce Walka,
Go Yayo got into it with another rapper from Houston named Lil Jairmy.
Go Yayo dropped a song called Boom God Pt 2, where he said
“we gone scoot up, we gone push up”
at the beginning of the track.
In an interview with Say Cheese TV,
Go Yayo claimed he was messin with a girl from Houston who used to talk like that.
He thought it was hard, so he put it in a song.
But he ain’t know that the phrase had a deeper meaning in the streets of Houston.
Many people in the city felt disrespected that he was using their lingo
without knowing the meaning behind it.
Then, Shawn Cotton posted a list of the 25 hottest rappers in Texas.
The list had Lil Jairmy ranked at number 8 and Go Yayo ranked at number 21.
Yayo commented on the post and said "take me off your page you punk ass blog,
I’ll whoop all the rappers on this list."
It was a bold claim since the list also featured rappers like Maxo Kream,
Mo3, and even Sauce Walka.
But it was Lil Jairmy who responded.
He was already mad about the scoot up push up bar and clapped back at Go Yayo.
So, Go Yayo went on live and started dissing Lil Jairmy directly.
He posted a message to his story that said
"On 4E I’ll go to war with anybody, the world…
Patna trip he clipped too
murda gang s*** world mine”.
He also posted a video where he said he would kill anybody in any city
and bragged about how he spends $300,000 to $400,000 on his outfits.
Lil Jairmy called him broke and said he couldn’t post $100,000 cash right now.
But he also posted a slide to his story where he wrote
"@liljairmy_gasgang Boutta kick @hoodfamegoyayo out of Texas."
Go Yayo responded by posting another video where he was even more turnt up.
He said that Lil Jairmy and gas gang had no bodies
and that they weren’t ready to go to war with him.
He disses Lil Jairmy’s dead homies and challenges him to put up $100k
and he’d put up 2.
But where Go Yayo really passed the point of no return
is when he brought up the late Houston rapper Kenny Lou.
He brings up the scoot up drama and said that half of y’all ain’t f*ck with Kenny Lou.
Kenny Lou was a rapper from Houston who was part of scoot up gang.
The rapper was well-loved and respected in the city
and can be seen in videos with rappers from TSF
and other gangs in Houston.
In November 2018,
Kenny Lou was shot to death while sitting in a Mercedes Benz
with another Houston rapper named Ghost.
They was in the parking lot of Club Onyx,
a strip club on the 3100 block of Bering near Richmond Avenue.
As soon as they entered the parking lot, two shooters in dark clothes ran up to the car
and started firing shots from behind.
They let off at least 13 shots, killing them both instantly.
Kenny Lou’s death was a major blow to the city.
He had a huge buzz in Houston,
and many thought he was the next local rapper to make it big.
He was working on his album at the time he was killed
and never got a chance to reach his full potential.
Go Yayo met Kenny Lou through Sauce Walka.
So, when he started going at Lil Jairmy,
he claimed they wasn’t really cool with Kenny Lou like that.
Scoot up was Kenny’s Lou’s thing,
which is why people got so mad at Go Yayo for saying it.
Yayo says he heard the term from Kenny Lou but aint know it was connected to street sh*t,
cause he thought Kenny was part of TSF.
By bringing up Kenny Lou, Go Yayo pissed off the whole city of Houston.
He claims he wasn’t dissing Kenny, only Jairmy.
But many in Houston still saw it as a sign of disrespect.
So, after that Go Yayo had problems with the entire city.
In April 2020, Go Yayo was in Houston with his homies Murdagang Bran Bran and PB.
They were driving around having fun, while Go Yayo was recording everything for IG Live.
At one point, he even revealed their location in the Third Ward neighborhood of Houston.
While on Live, Murdagang PB started seeing people in the comments
saying that Yayo wasn’t good in Houston,
but he ain’t know it was serious beef.
They pulled up to a Jack-in-the-Box to get some food
and some dudes came and confronted them.
It’s not clear what was said, but about 5 minutes later,
someone sprayed their car with bullets.
Murdagang Bran Bran was shot in the arm, but no one else in the car was hit.
They pulled into the parking lot of a Chic-filla to try and get help,
but the employees locked the door and refused to let them in.
Police arrived not long after, but unfortunately, Bran Bran ain’t make it.
So at that point, it was an all-out war between Go Yayo and the city of Houston.
Sauce Walka stayed neutral and wasn’t beefing publicly with Go Yayo.
But the more problems he had with other rappers in Houston,
the harder it became for them to maintain a relationship.
The final straw came after Go Yayo had his chain snatched in LA.
Yayo was in LA with his baby mama, when he was allegedly set up and robbed of his jewelry.
After the incident, his girl got on social media and broke down what happened.
She explained how they were in LA with no guns cause they couldn’t bring them on the flight.
Yayo ain’t have smoke with anyone in LA, so they ain’t think it was a problem.
They ended up linkin with one of Go Yayo’s homies who was Mexican.
They chilled with them for a while but eventually left to get something to eat.
When they came back to the same spot about 5 minutes later
two random cars pulled up behind them.
Go Yayo’s homies' car was parked right in front of them, so they couldn’t drive away.
A bunch of armed men jumped out of the car and walked Yayo’s homie back to his own whip.
Then they pointed their guns at Go Yayo and said they was gon shoot his baby mama
if he ain’t give up his jewelry.
They was basically trapped with nowhere to go and had no way to protect themselves.
So he had to give them what they wanted.
It sounds like she suggests it was a setup.
They was parked not far from the Hollywood Walk of Fame in a tourist area
where random robberies aren’t common.
Plus, the two cars that pulled up seemed
to already know where they were and who was in the car.
Go Yayo accepted the L, but of course, his opps used that as a way to disrespect him.
Right after the robbery, Go Yayo and Sauce Walka started beefing online.
According to Go Yayo, the tension really started before the robbery,
when he started calling himself the King of Texas.
He says he was just feeling himself and wasn’t trying to diss anybody.
But Sauce Walka considered himself the King of Texas
and started trippin when he claimed that title.
Then in August 2020, Go Yayo dropped a diss song called No Quits (the Truth),
where he took shots at other Texas rappers who was dissing him.
He must have felt the pressure after getting clowned for being robbed
and decided to make a song to prove he wasn’t backing down.
The track wasn’t entirely directed at Sauce Walka, but it contained the bar
“I used to f*ck with Sauce but he always on some week sh*t”
After that, there must have been some back and forth behind the scenes.
Go Yayo then hopped on social media to air out the situation.
He posted a video to his IG story
where he made it clear he wasn’t rockin with Sauce anymore
because he was linking up with his opps and sending sneak disses.
He also takes shots at all of TSF and said he’s the real king of Texas.
That ain’t go over too well with TSF and they jumped back on social media to respond.
First Sancho Saucy got on IG to get at Go Yayo.
He called him a h** for talking tough, but not sliding after his homie Bran Bran got killed.
He claimed that the bullet was meant for him
and the only reason Bran Bran got killed was because Yayo switched seats.
Sauce Walka also responded on his own IG, clowning Yayo for getting robbed
and putting his own homie in a situation
where he got killed over a beef that he had nothing to do with.
They went back and forth on social media for several weeks.
Then on September 10th,
Sauce Walka dropped the track "Hoe Gayo" featuring Peso Peso and Sauce Brazy.
On the track, Sauce goes in on Yayo for claiming to be the King of Texas
but can’t even leave the house.
He also dissed Yayo for getting Bran Bran killed for acting tough and hating on Kenny Lou.
Plus he drops the bar
“We all know in Cali, you ain’t a cripp you a civilian
That’s why they took your ass down for your chains and bandanas”,
clowning Yayo for claiming to be a cripp,
then getting robbed in the birthplace of his own gang.
Halfway through the song,
Sauce lets the beat drop keeps rapping acapella, adding to the intensity of the diss.
The morning after the diss dropped,
Go Yayo hopped on social media to take more shots at Sauce.
On "Hoe Gayo",
Sauce claimed that all of Yayo’s opps were still alive.
So Yayo clapped back by asking why Drake and Young Thug were still alive
if Sauce is such a hard-core gangsta.
Ever since then, the two rappers been sending shots back and forth
over who is the real King of Texas.
But the beef came to a halt in early 2021,
after Go Yayo was arrested and hit with multiple charges,
including a federal gun charge.
In February, the rapper recorded himself smoking a blunt
while driving and being chased by the police.
In the video, he seemed to think that someone in the chat snitched on him,
because he asks the camera
“Which one of you rat a**, police a** n***** done called the law on me or somethin', n****?”
He was arrested and charged with unlawful carrying of a weapon,
possession of marijuana, obstruction, and evading arrest.
A week later, it was announced that the feds had picked up the gun charge,
which makes the case harder to beat.
Sauce Walka has also been fighting his own legal battle behind the scenes.
In 2018, TSF was classified as a criminal street gang by the Texas State Court. The following year,
one of his artists, Sauce Lean
was accused of sexually trafficking two minors, then bragging about his activities in songs.
He was eventually convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
Since then HPD has had a close eye on TSF.
So for now, the beef is on pause while Go Yayo fights for his freedom.
Hopefully, both rappers can put their differences aside and focus on their own careers.
But that might be hard to do after all the disrespect that’s already been shown.