Todd Gaither (born September 6, 1969) also known as Sauce Money, is a rapper who worked with Jay-Z in his early career. He was also featured on Big Daddy Kane's album '' Daddy's Home''; he appears on the track "Show N' Prove", alongside Scoob Lover, Jay-Z, Shyheim the Rugged Child, and

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of the

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Career

He was featured on Jay-Z's debut album, ''

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'', on the

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-produced "Bring It On", on '' In My Lifetime, Vol. 1'', on the track "Face Off", and on Jay Z's third album, '' Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life'', on the track "Reservoir Dogs" with

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and Beanie Sigel. Gaither is credited as a co-writer for Puff Daddy's single "

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". He released his debut album, '' Middle Finger U'', on

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and

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in 2000. The album featured two guest spots: one from Jay-Z ("Pregame") and another from Puff Daddy ("Do You See"); it also includes one track produced by DJ Premier. He released one single from this album, "For My Hustlaz". In 2004, he was featured on the single "Easy" from New Zealand DJ/producer

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's album '' Magic City''. In 2006, he appeared at Jay Z's ''I Declare War'' concert to perform "Reservoir Dogs". Sauce Money released a single entitled "Listen 2 Me" in 2008. It sampled the

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from the 1971 film ''

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''. The song was made available on Sauce Money's MySpace page. Sauce Money makes occasional appearances on mixtapes, especially those coordinated by

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. Among the rappers he has appeared on DJ Kay Slay-facilitated posse cuts with include

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, Redman,

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, Royce Da 5’9”, Crooked I, AZ,

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, Busta Rhymes,

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, Bun B, Joell Ortiz,

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, Grandmaster Caz, Coke La Rock,

Melle Mel Melvin Glover (born May 15, 1961 in The Bronx), better known by his stage name Grandmaster Melle Mel (or simply Melle Mel) () is an American hip hop recording artist who was the lead vocalist and songwriter of Grandmaster Flash and the Furio ...

, Ice-T,

E-A-Ski Shon Adams (born September 17, 1968), better known by his stage name E-A-Ski, is an American rapper and producer from Oakland, California. He served as both a rapper and producer for No Limit Records, producing on Master P's early records and ...

MC Serch Michael Berrin (born May 6, 1967), best known by his stage name MC Serch, is an American rapper and music executive. He is a former member of 3rd Bass and Non Phixion. Early life and education Serch grew up in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York ...

, Herb McGruff, Superlover Cee, Stan Spit, 3D Na’Tee,

Merkules Cole Stevenson, known by the stage name Merkules, is a Canadian rapper from Surrey, British Columbia. He is known for his "hangover-rap" style of music. Career Stevenson began rapping at age 15 under the name Merk Mikz. He met Snak the Ripper at ...

, and Big Daddy Kane, among many others. He appeared on both 2020’s “Rolling 50 Deep” and 2021’s “Rolling 110 Deep”, and was chosen to perform the very last verse on the latter.

Discography

;Studio albums * 2000: '' Middle Finger U''

References

External links

* Allmusic entrybr>Sauce money bio
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