Back then I had more rowdy rowdy, bout it bout it songs, but it’s still Boosie, I still make real music. But I always made real music I always had real song, I just think I have deeper songs. I touch on more life situations, more world situations, what’s going on outside. How has your creative process changed since coming home? And in prison, I was still smoking, I was still drinking syrup. But a lot of that, I could blame myself for, too, because when you got diabetes, you’ve got a lot of stuff going. To keep it real, I feel like I didn’t get enough attention. Some of them don’t even have a doctorate in this shit. You’re not going to have the best care in prison, even though they check you, they’re not scientist doctors like people at the real hospitals. Well, with diabetes in jail, the doctors are not even more experienced than the doctors in the streets.
Obama out like three, four weeks ago and talked about the problems in Baton Rouge, but I just hope somebody can make a difference.ĭid you get the proper medical attention in Angola? I ain’t see no change in Baton Rouge, to keep it 100. Grade point averages still at an all-time low. If they can rap and make a million dollars, hell, I’ll encourage everybody to rap!ĭid you notice Baton Rouge changing in the time you were away? That’s a talent we’re providing for them. They’re always going to blame the rappers, but you got nothing in the community, you got nothing to try to help those kids, so who else are they going to look up to? And they criticize them for trying to go rap, to try to be like us, but they see that as a talent. If you can’t grab a football, a basketball, a tablet, they go and grab a gun. If you don’t have nothing to keep the youth busy, they are going to the corner. We need this things everywhere for these youth. And I just think the government, you know, the people-if you don’t give the youth nothing to do around the neighborhood… We need programs. Back in the game, you could say what you wanted, but now it’s a big old issue, man. Now you can rap about certain things and they’ll want to indict you. It reminded me of “Crazy,” where you take the government and middle America to task for blaming rappers for societal ills when disadvantaged people have no road out. On “Wanna B Heard,” you address how people in poor communities often find themselves voiceless. I’m back healthy and I’m back on the road doing shows. I’m gaining my weight back I lost like 40 pounds because of the cancer. Overall, I’m more healthy than I’ve ever been. They had to take part of it out, but after that, I did a month and a couple weeks in a cancer rehab, and I was let out. I had kidney cancer, renal cell carcinoma. 8, they had to take part of my kidney out. I’m cancer-free right now, I had surgery Dec. You just underwent surgery for kidney cancer. Plus, we've got an exclusive video premiere for his track "Truth." He also spoke about his health, his hometown, and how he wants to be remembered. In a phone interview from earlier in February, Boosie tells me that he plans to release much more music this year, in the form of mixtapes, a retail album, and a collaboration with his former cellmate, the still-incarcerated C-Murder. As always, Boosie marries an unsettling realism to undying optimism the record is one of the most engrossing listens from 2016 thus far.Īnd he’s not done. Last month, he followed it up with Out My Feelings (In My Past), which shifts focus from doctor’s offices to the outside world and all its ills.
Fortunately, a December surgery to remove part of his kidney was successful, and he says he’s now cancer-free.īoosie documented that experience on In My Feelings (Goin’ Thru It), the brief, somber album he released on New Year’s Day.
It was a stark, almost unbelievable turn of bad luck for a man who has been under the thumb of racist and corrupt law enforcement and judicial systems for much of his adult life. A mixtape, Life After Deathrow, counted among his best work, and his return to retail shelves, Touchdown 2 Cause Hell, was issued last year.īut in November, Boosie announced that he was suffering from kidney cancer. A string of singles and guest spots re-established Boosie as perhaps the genre’s most personal, evocative writer. The state tried to bring drug charges and a murder case for the latter, prosecutors played his music in the courtroom and tried to paint Boosie as a cold-blooded killer.Īgainst overwhelming odds, he was freed in March of 2014 and immediately went on a ceaseless tear through the rap industry. The Baton Rouge native, better known as Lil Boosie or Boosie Badazz, was already a hero in his home state when he was sentenced to two years in prison in the fall of 2009. Torrence Hatch knows all about perseverance.
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