The Breakfast Club - Bossie BadAzz Interview

Episode Date: May 27, 2015

Boosie BadAzz stops through to discuss the release of his first album since being released from prison. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I told y'all I'd be right back Boosie badass Album stores right now Album stores today Go get it right now And you in New York On the album release day too Right, right

You got your New York gear on And everything Right, right, right The your New York gear on and everything. Right, right, right. The city rocking with me. Everywhere I'm going, the city rocking with me like, Boosie, yo, Boosie, dog, we rocking with you, homie. That's the New York voice. Yeah, I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Louisiana ain't mad, though. Like, man, you should be here, man. Nah, nah. Nah, it's bigger than Louisiana. That's my state, but it's big old bitches now absolutely I was listening to the album and I like I like down pretty appreciate it appreciate window of my eyes okay yeah I wrote that in prison I wrote that uh maybe fact matter of fact one morning coming from the kitchen I wrote that. Is that like a metaphor for like, it's time for you to wake up?

I already woke up. You know, like me coming home and seeing what's out here for me, I've been woke up. I was woke up when I beat my trial. I was already woke up to be a know a better person and smart enough you know now you talking about in that song about a lot of people turning on you right that happened to you a lot because you mentioned it a couple times in the song yeah yeah a lot of people turned on me I had dudes turn on me I had my side chicks turn on me you know well they're side chicks come on Bootsy they're not supposed to hold you down. You're not your wifey.

You thought side chicks was going to be loyal? Nah, but you got to do something. Like, you know, like... Respond to a letter? Nah, but we had better relationships than, you know... Mm-hmm.

A friend is a friend even if you're a lover. Right. If you're a friend of somebody, you're still a friend to them. That's interesting. I wonder if I was

somebody's side chick and he went to jail. If I'm like, well, that's his main chick's responsibility now. I don't know. It depends on how much you whooped. Man, you got this song spoiled me. I said, was that what you doing to them side chicks? You was giving them money? I done bought you all this stuff.

You can't do this to me, you know what I'm saying? I like to go shopping. You hear that? I ain't going to say I ain't enough to do that. I like to go shopping. And if I'm with a chick, you know, like, go shopping. I ain't gonna say I ain't enough to do that. I like to go shopping and if I'm with a chick, you know, like we rocking. You know, we getting it on. I like her to have nice things, too. Now on that record, too, you talk about how you reflect into the cell

and you realize you're blessed. You got more than everybody else. You said none of that mattered at that moment. Right, because like you probably don't know until you get in it. But like if, just say you're in prison Even though you financially straight your kids have everything Without they dead anyway, they Christmas not right right without a birthday They Christmas not right or like I used to have to send my homies for daddy day to school

You know everybody else eat with a dad and my kids gotta eat with their homies. So it's just the presence that mean more than anything, really, like financially and all of that. Watching your touchdown, the Cause How documentary and seeing like your daughter come running up the stairs and go crazy, you know, when you got out of jail the first time she saw you, those moments are absolutely

amazing. Right. And people always say, you can tell Boosie got such a great heart just by the way you treat your kids and the people around you anyway you've always in your lyrics written about things that are happening like right now everybody's talking about the cops and police brutality and all that but the other things you've always oh yeah I've been telling you how they've been you know acting all crazy in my community it's just now you know they got camera phone looking back though when you see yourself younger before you went to jail and you was like at the police suck my D and all of that

I mean like man. What was I doing? I was just making it harder for you. You know I was kind of wild you know and And a lot of that stuff I brought on myself by being so So my guns every DVD. Oh, I brought a lot of that on myself. I wouldn't do that no more. Can you tell these guys that's doing it now all on Instagram and Facebook something please? When you get indicted, they will use you.

And you know, what jurors want. It's hard for an attorney to go in there and fight and try to make you look like a regular mojo, man. All they gotta do is pull it up on you. Pull it up on up and you know. You Rambo. Now last time you said you regretted doing the record after Police because like you said it'd be hard for you. Yeah yeah. On this record you got hands up. Right right right right. How you how you feel about this one? You think this one? Oh I think it was I think it was it was

more of a less direct than after police. After police, it was like it's all our way up here. Everybody, all the police. But now it's basically focused on the ones who doing dirty. Because I got a cousin. I got a cousin, man, on the other side. He a police. And he ain't no bad dude.

He ain't no hater. He ain't no racist. he ain't no racist he ain't nothing like that so basically it's just for those who who committing the crimes and got that in their heart got that in their heart that they gonna do it again and plus now you got facts to back it up right yeah yeah now you see now you know on the album right one of my favorite joints i love the intro the reason i love the intro is just bars. Right. And I don't think a lot of people get to see that side or look for that when they hear Boosie.

Right, right. So when you hear that, it's like, that's what I want to hear. That's what I love, just bars, no hook, just I'm just going to eat these guys' kids' heads off. Right, right, right. That was my idea, man. I said, I'm coming in straight on the bar tip, you know, and let them know that I'm back, man. I'm back. Would you do more remixes with people, especially dudes that...

I love to hear artists on remixes because I love to hear their take of different songs. And we don't really hear that much from Boosie like that. Basically... Too expensive? Nah, not really. Basically, when I hear a remix, I usually reach out to people. I'm a hustler. I don't wait for people to call me like, you want to get on these remakes?

Nah, I hear a big record. Man, let me get on that remake. So even if they decide to or not, I try. So basically, that's what it is. But every remix I get on, I do my thing. I'm doing them on the shows right now i'm doing a jet fuel i'm doing uh me and meek meal record uh and basically you know to cut that chick off remix record right whatever i get on it i'm gonna bless it you know now you have 19 songs on this album right right and a lot of features

a lot of people cut about four though with the features now where, right. A lot of features, too. You could have cut about four, though, with the features. I'm sure a lot of people were hitting you up, though, because they wanted to get on this album. Right, right, right. A lot of people wanted to get on this album. A lot of people wanted to collaborate with me. And I wanted to collaborate

with a lot of people. So, by them getting on my albums, you're going to see me on a lot of albums also. It was like you wanted to get everything in that you could. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's not going to stop here

because, you know, I'm trying to drop another album, yeah, yeah, but it's not gonna stop here because You know, I'm trying to drop another album in seven eight months. I feel like I'm ready right now So many records out here. I feel like Atlantic said just do this wasn't put it on I basically had creative control over the whole I'm always a person Which one the one with Chris Brown? Yeah. And which one we see?

Which one? Another one. The Ross one was kind of maybe. Nah, nah, nah. That was me and Ross in the studio. Who was the other one that did it? Chris Brown or which one? All I Know. I like All I Know.

All I Know hard. All right, so that was a good decision by the way. Yeah. I like the song that you did for your mom too. Right, right, right. I'm sorry. I'm sorry yeah yeah yeah it was pretty deep that's what I do I make deep music real music is back in May 26 today real music is back in the world Boosie for a while people couldn't touch Boosie really speak to him so they never get really got Boosie's personality, right? Right. It's like you just see you hear the music, but you never really got to touch him

Especially here on the East Coast. We never really seen Boosie So I like Boosie coming out here more and spitting more and coming to the breakfast club more man Cause you were doing your first show in New York. How come you never had a performance? I don't know. I don't know. I They might have thought I couldn't fit the bill here, you know? I don't know what it is. You know, I've been doing shows in Baltimore since 2003. Right. And that's not too far from here, I don't think.

About three hours, two and a half hours. And I'm the king of Baltimore, so now I'm just trying to come here and lay my foundation in New York with real music, you know? I'm trying to connect with these artists out here and get featured on these records out here and show them that I'm the real deal. Now Angeline mentioned the I'm Sorry record. What made you feel like you had to apologize to all your family and friends? Really I just felt like I had to apologize because I've been messing up so damn long.

Like especially with my mom, man. I've been a little... I've been getting in and out of stuff for a long time As far as putting my mama through stuff She's a teacher, right? Yeah, she retired now I put my mama through a lot I put my family through a lot I put a lot of people through a lot By being in that situation I put a lot of people in a lot

By being in that situation So I had to make a record like that And I said I wanted to be A big record that people be like damn he touched me with that record now mercy on my soul that's not like you was ready to just save save like webby on that record man you sound full of all your sins and it's like you won't forgive me i know that that wrong i know what i did wrong did you ask for forgiveness now what would you change like y'all let me say what's the one thing That you would say I would change regardless?

I'd probably change Being drawn into the streets So heavy like You know if I ever I would've probably been In this situation I mean not as for a success If I would've

Been left the streets alone And said man man, this is where I'm going to rap. You know, 0-4, 5-0-6, I was, you know, selling records, but, you know, I was still halfway in the street and halfway in the... And so you don't do this. You don't go to the top when you do this. So it's either one way or another so basically I I would have been more rap rap ready and not street ready coming through in my process and I'd be way up right now I'm glad you said that man because I feel like it's impossible to be a real street dude and be a star because keeping a real street is kind of like keeping it criminal so how can you balance both uh well being a real street dude i feel like you balance it on on on on your reputation as far as

in the streets you're not in the streets no more gotcha you you you have a reputation that lasts in the streets as you're a real dude with your music if you me all you really doing is spitting what's going on in the world and spitting what you're seeing through your eyes got you so uh i guess i mean most of the people that act it out like you see them on twitter putting hashtagging their games about chris brown yeah you know what i'm saying you know pyro blood and this and that and i'm gonna shoot you when i see you and flashing the guns that ain't that ain't no good work you know yeah that ain't no good good work. Then they got them gang laws so heavy now, bro. In these cities, man, they throwing away 16, 17 dudes at a time just for posting stuff about gangs. And these dudes not even really living like that no gang.

They just copying people. They might have had a couple fights here and there. But nah, that ain't enough for no Rico. But hey. They locking them away for a long time. Yeah, man. might have had a couple fights here and there but now I ain't enough for no Rico but hey yeah man now also watching the documentary I saw when when you on house arrest and you weren't supposed to leave and you went and did a show anyway right and ended up getting four years right for something like that was going on in your head we did you think the judge I had before i had matter of fact i had did four shows that i wasn't supposed to do uh you really thought you were just the judge was just gonna not do anything or you didn't think you would get that much time i thought he'll hit me with uh like six months or something like that

or extra six months i knew he'll do something but six months and on the drug charge that i went number three months so i had four shows that were like 30, 35 a piece so I wouldn't have got that bag. Get that bag. So you was like, listen, I gotta get this money

for my family, a little six months is nothing, but you didn't think it was gonna be four years. Nah, four. But I was still

on a drug charge on that four I wouldn't have did in that 16 months. Right, okay. But yeah, he socked it to me. Do the probation officers

and judges understand? And the bad part about it, we talking about third offense But, yeah, he socked it to me. Do the probation officers and judges understand? And the bad part about it, we're talking about third offense marijuana. Like, damn. You know, no probation. I never was on probation. No probation. No rehab. You know, I wasn't allowed help.

I'm boosting bad ass. And she's right in. I'm going straight to the pen. Hey. It's cold, man. Do you think the judges and parole officers understand that it is for you to go do shows right well I'm at it right now fighting with these people about me traveling across the country and stuff like this like this is my job this is what I do I'm not I'm not a dude just saying he rap I'm a licensed

entertainer I get checks man yeah and I don't I just don't like that how they put a foot over our head when we on paper. You know, it's all bad for getting into trouble. But they just go, like, overboard, man, with us letting us travel and feed our family, man. Did the DA really have tears in their eyes? Oh, yeah, man. Did you get your charges? No, not the DA, the prosecutor.

Prosecutor. Yeah, the prosecutor. Yeah. He really wanted you. She. Oh, she really wanted. Did you get your charges? No, I didn't. Not the DA, the prosecutor. The prosecutor. Yeah, the prosecutor. Yeah. He really wanted you. She. Oh, she really wanted you. Yeah. Damn.

But what, though? I guess I was the, you know, they wanted me bad, man. They was snatching up everybody, snatched up all my homies. They just wanted Boosie bad, man. Now, on Mercy on My Soul, you say it's hard for you to get up for church. Why is it hard for you to get up for church? I said back then, I'm saying that was my wrong, you know. I could smoke perp all night for hours, but can't get my tail up for church a couple hours.

You know, that was real. You know, I could stay up all night, but when my auntie come knock on that door, tell my mom, come on. You know, I'm turning over. Even when she leave, I wake up like, man, I know I could have went to church. Then now I'm trying to send somebody to the church to pay my tithe. Do you go now? Nah, I ain't really been going, but by me being in prison,

like, I'm closer to God. Got you. Like, some people can go to church and not even be close to God. Very true. So I'm closer to God now. So, like, me, I go to church and not even be close to God. Very true. So I'm closer to God now. So, like, me, I go to church when I'm talking to him, I feel like, you know. But sometimes I'll pop through there and not, but I haven't really found the church yet. You also say on that record, people know your wealth but don't know your struggle.

Explain that a little. Because a lot of people like that. Once you build yourself as somebody who's getting real money, every hand that's out is not supposed to be given because that's the only reason they're hanging out. Period.

You're going to have people around you. It's up to you to decide who he a leech and he a real dude. Right. But that's basically it.

People know your wealth. They don't really care about you as a person. That's how I feel with a lot of people. You know, that's life That's even with you So even if you got friends

You can add some shites to people Absolutely Come around you They don't say how you doing Hello, what's up Yeah What can you do for me, man? What we eating today?

Yeah You know what I'm saying? But then you have a joint like a man Right, right, right Explain like a man a little bit Like a man was just one of them records I just wanted to stick my chest out in. You know, it was just one of them records I was like, you know, I'm a tough guy. That was one of them tough guy records I wanted to put out.

Just saying, you know, everything I did, I did it like a man. You know, that was just basically explaining, a record explaining who Boos did it like a man. That was just basically explaining, a record explaining who Boosie is as a person. And who people should be, because you tell people that if you get caught or something happens to you, you should take your responsibility like a man. Right, right, right, right, right. And you say on that record

that they used your lyrics against you in court. Does that make you question what you rap about? Because you ain't really hold back on this album. Not at all. Nah, it don't really make me hold back. It makes me hold back as far as making the name for the song or the type of record directed

at certain people. But as far as me spitting my story, nah, I ain't holding back my story. The record Retaliation sounds very incriminating. Right, right, right. How much of that story is true? Well, that story, that story, I ain't that story, that story,

I ain't going to say it's true or nothing. But the Retaliation record. It's a story. I was just trying to touch everybody on this out. And that Retaliation, that record, you know, when you leave the funeral, man, and you mad, and it's Ret retaliation time. That was basically one of them Young Gunna records.

Absolutely. Now, the record No Juice, you said this dude was supposed to introduce you to Dr. Dre? Well, you said Dre. Was that Dr. Dre? Yeah, Dr. Dre. Explain the story for people that don't know. Oh, well, I had a dude I used to be rocking with out there in Cali, and this dude was selling me so many damn dreams about Dre.

He got Dre on speed. He could never get Dre all the way out of the country. So after a moment, I was like, no, you lying. This was before the deal or while you was on? No, this was before the deal. Well, where did you meet this guy? Nah, he was like a Cali plug for it. He was the Cali plug with everything we get out there.

Have you ever met Dr. Dre? Nah, I ain't never met Dre. You need to send me one of them tracks, though. God bless it. He already know that. You wanted to be in general population. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I wasn't feeling that.

I was in a cell for three years, man. I ain't finna sit in no cell no more, and I ain't beat my murder case. Right. Once you a rapper, though, you have the opportunityna sit in no cell no more And I ain't beat my murder case Like once you a rapper though You have the opportunity to Sit in solitary confinement or go in population And I'm going in population I'm going to live

Now who you talking about on Hip Hop Array man You was calling out rappers that be lying And they rhyme the way they dress I wasn't really calling out nobody It was just one of those records when me and Webber was loaded in the studio. And we like, man, we finna go at the whole game. We just finna talk some crazy, you know. So I just say, hip-hop, hooray.

Hip-hop, hooray. You know? Just the rap game in general. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just the rap game in general. Everybody like different from us. We was just going, going, going hard. Why do you think artists feel the need to be street?

It used to be just rappers, but it seems like everybody feel the need to be screened now. Rappers, singers? I feel like they be trying to get that crowd, man. I be feeling like they be trying to get that gangster crowd. I be feeling like they want to know what that gangster image feel like.

That's what I think, you know. For people that want to be gangster, ain't nothing cute about being gangster. you know, for people that want to be gangsta. Ain't nothing cute about being a gangsta. You know, ain't nothing smiling about saying you're a gangsta. You know, because most gangstas be dead. You're just lucky if you're a gangsta. Do you feel like you and Webby have a different relationship now than you did before you went in? Nah, we don't have no different relationship.

That's still my homie. We need to get in the studio uh but i'm just grinding bro i'm grinding so hard and i'm just i'm just waiting on him to to get ready and we're gonna go make another big record together okay now uh black now that he's saved he's not gonna be changing his content i don't know i i should have put Webby on Black Heaven. If you see him. If you ever see him, they got that water cold. Black Heaven, you done went and segregated heaven, man.

There's nothing but black people there. Is that something you really believe? Nah, I don't believe that. I just had to make a song for the black important people. Basically, I was riding down the interstate and I was listening to Thug Mansion from Tupac and I say man I got to put together me a deep record like this and I just went on in and I got to writing it man the beat came about and I got to writing it. What made you get the Coles man you got Jay and Keyshawn. I just wanted Jay Cole on the record I wanted to squeeze him on the record before the album was done.

I was like, man, I got to get J. Cole on the record. J. Cole just dropped me. I got to get J. Cole on the record. And I had Keyshawn speed dialed, so I just hit Keyshawn. Keyshawn, I need you on the record. And it was done. Have you been to Dubai before, man? Because on all I know, you said you was on a camel in Dubai.

Nah, but I'm going. Okay. Nah, but I'm going. Nah, but I'm going. I've been cross but I'm going. Nah, but I'm going. I've been cross-seas. It's all entertainment, police. It's entertainment. I won't go so bad.

I used to, when I was in G, I used to look at all the gold buildings over there and stuff like that. So that's my dream. I just got to holler at my, they ready for me to come over there, man. Matter of fact, to get some money. That's the problem. I got to talk with the judge on me going over there. You heard about all them Instagram models that be getting doodooed on for trips to Dubai, right?

They be getting what? Don't do this now. The damn Arabs over there, the princes and stuff, they be hitting them up on DM on Instagram, send them contracts, be paying them $20,000, $30,000 and they go over there and get sh**. Like literally sh** on. $50,000. Dead ass serious. I know girls right now that got contracts

Wait there was another thing that you wanted to do have twins now. Yeah, is that it? Have you gotten anybody pregnant with twins yet? No, I'm just really trying to find the right girl. You know, I already got my sperm froze. So I just got to find the right girl and put the twins in her. It's really froze for real? Yeah, I just got to find the right girl and put the twins in her. Put the twins in her.

I just got to find the right girl. Why you ain't do that as part of your album package? That could have been like a surprise. Have Boosie's bad ass. Buy this a prize. Have Boosie's bad ass. Buy this on iTunes. Have Boosie's bad ass. That could have been part of a prize package. Boosie's bad ass twins.

I just want to find somebody who just understand it, man. You know, like, I just need to find that baby mama who's going to let me do me. I let her do her. That might be a good ass reality show. Well, yeah. Hold on. All your baby mamas get along with each other now and everything and they let you do you. Yeah, they let me do me, but I don't want the same baby mother.

No, I don't want the same. You want another one? Yeah, I want another one. That's gonna be six. So you don't still mess with none of them? Nah, I'm not sexually involved with none of them. Okay. Like for real, for real. I'm not sexually involved with none of them. Okay. Like, for real, for real.

I know you're looking like, come on now. You know, all guys smash their baby moms now. For real, for real. We barely see each other. We in different states. Really, we just got the bond for taking care of our kids together, and we doing that real good. How do you see all your kids?

You bring them on the road. It's the summer. All of them in Atlanta with me now. Okay. So they be everywhere with me. We go, they travel everywhere on the road with me.

The oldest one is 13, right? Yeah, 13. Finna be 14. A female? Yeah. Uh-oh, she's about to start dating and everything.

She gotta... Hey, no, that's a good... Speaking of daughters, how she got her name, I feel like every man with a daughter should let his daughter

hear that record, man. It scared the hell out of him. For real. Was that based on a true story? A couple of them. A couple of them was based on girls in my hood. I just switched the facts up a little bit. Gotcha.

But most of them was based on girls on my project, really. I think we need to really think this reality show through. This could be a dope-ass reality show. You have to set up Flavor of Love, a bunch of girls, all vying to get that frozen sperm. You don't want one of them girls that's gonna sign up for that show. That could be big, man.

Man, that video's kinda big. I ain't showing that video. You about to gave me an idea. I ain't never seen that concert. You about to gave me an idea. How the girls in the mirror, ooh, them babies look good. You know what I'm saying?

Yes. Yes. You ain't done a lot. A lot of work, man. Yep. Yeah. Working title. Have pussy twins.

Badass. Yeah, we can do it. We're even coming out at birth with the Lethago. We'll be helping you choose the girl. Where my nephews at? Where my nephews at?

The live show that we're doing is a live show that lets you let all your fans Choose a girl Yes I'm with it

I'm with it We gotta think about that I like that one I'm with it That's a hell of a rating Almond stores right now Right now Go get it

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Webster Hall tonight Boosie Badass Yeah I'ma be there Envy Hall. Webster Hall tonight. Boosie Badass. Yeah, I'm going to be there. Envy's going to be there. That's right. Boosie Badass is the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Had enough of this country?

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on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, y'all. Niminy here. I'm the host of a brand-new history podcast for kids and families called Historical Records. Executive produced by Questlove, The Story Pirates, and John Glickman,

Historical Records brings history to life through hip-hop. Each episode is about a different inspiring figure from history. Like this one about Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old girl in Alabama who refused to give up her seat on the city bus nine whole months before Rosa Parks did the same thing. Check it. Get the kids in your life excited about history by tuning in to Historical Records because in order to make history, you have to make some noise. Listen to Historical Records on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Hey, everyone. This is Courtney Thorne-Smith, Laura Layton, and Daphne Zuniga. On July 8, 1992, apartment buildings with pools were never quite the same as Melrose Place was introduced to the world. We are going to be reliving every hookup, every scandal, and every single wig removal together. So listen to Still the Place on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.