Category Slept On

The artists, albums, and moments that deserved more than they got. Not nostalgia, not revisionism — just the record being set straight, one piece at a time.

Slept On, The Sound

Sauce Walka is the most Houston rapper alive and that’s not a compliment it’s a fact

Illustrated Sato scene on a Houston street corner at night, strip mall in background, figures in the foreground, warm sodium light and neon reflections on wet pavement

The word “drip” is everywhere now. Every rapper uses it. Every brand has borrowed it. Every teenager who has never been within five hundred miles of Houston, Texas says it like they invented it. Sauce Walka says he invented it.…

Satoshi Takara
July 17, 2026

Slept On

MF Grimm was on Sesame Street before he was in a wheelchair making classic hip hop

Illustrated Sato scene outside a record shop at night, Japanese text on the walls, figures in shadow, gritty urban atmosphere

Before Percy Carey was MF Grimm, he was a kid on Sesame Street. His neighbor on the Upper West Side was Morgan Freeman. Freeman thought the boy — three years old, big Afro, potbelly — would look great on the…

Satoshi Takara
June 19, 2026