From our Spring Issue: The Southern rapper SaucySantana_ talks to his biggest inspiration, TRINArockstarr about becoming the ultimate material girl 💎.
was a Miami-based makeup artist working for clients like City Girls. Now, he’s a rising hip-hop star with a juicy southern flow and a series of high-octane, feel-good anthems for the TikTok era. One of Santana’s biggest inspirations is Trina, a fellow bad bitch and hip-hop legend. The two of them recently connected to talk about style, celebrity, and conquering the culture.
SANTANA: I moved to Florida when I was ten. Originally I’m from Bridgeport, Connecticut, so it was a culture shock. North and south, we just do things differently. We have different slang, there’s southern hospitality. That’s when I learned about down-south music, when I started getting into Uncle Luke. I grew up off of you of course, Trick Daddy, Jacki-O, Ice Berg. Our music is just different, we talk that shit. A lot of that stuff molded how I rap today.
TRINA: Your music is a part of the culture. It’s what we love, it’s fly, you talk that shit. Where do you see yourself fitting in with current sounds? SANTANA: Being gay is being normalized, like when you turn on your TV—my favorite show is Power, it’s a gangster show, and in the last season you had a boy on there who was gay. It’s not a big deal like it used to be. I didn’t get the same respect or recognition in 2019 when I first started rapping. People thought, “Oh, he just went viral or this is just a gimmick.
TRINA: I recently saw you on a big Spotify billboard, congratulations on that. I feel like you deserve to be on that big platform. How do you feel about your streaming success? SANTANA: I’ve always loved clothes. I was the one that didn’t want no PlayStation, I wanted Nikes. My momma went to school for fashion merchandising, and when I was younger, my dad was a dope boy, so he was always flying in the new shit. He would pick me up from school and take me to the mall, and my mom would be like, “Stop doing that!” ’Cause that lifestyle can get you in jail, the streets ain’t forever. So I’ve always been into having the new drip.
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