Or should be.įor reasons best explained by entertainment lawyers, the new album doesn't include Lil Boosie's underground summer hit, "Do tha Ratchet." That track was a collaboration with a couple of Shreveport rappers, released on an independent CD, and it inspired a dance move that spread through local clubs and through one notably unlocal Web site: YouTube, where the usual assortment of pajama'd teenagers and dressed-up dandies can be seen doing their own Ratchets. If Lil Boosie's catchy current single, "Zoom," becomes a nationwide hip-hop hit, then maybe he can sell a few hundred thousand CD's. Forget about dreams of multiplatinum success. But you might say this has been a year defined by rappers like him, neighborhood guys with modest dreams. Make no mistake, Lil Boosie is hardly the rapper of the year. And this Tuesday he will make his major-label solo debut with "Bad Azz" (Trill/Aslyum/Warner). He has got the five things every rapper needs: a memorable voice, a bad attitude, an infectious love of trash talk, a regional reputation and a record deal. Superbad: The Return of Boosie Bad Azz is slated for release September 15.If you want to understand hip-hop in 2006, you should acquaint yourself with Torrence Hatch, a 23-year-old fellow from Baton Rouge, La., known professionally as Lil Boosie.
This CD is the truth.”īoosie is currenty on a promo tour, and recently shot a music video for “Better Believe It” in Baton Rouge. “There’s not one song on here that you just can’t listen to,” boasts a confident Boosie.
Today, Superbad is on the way, and Boosie is looking to further extend his reach into the hip-hop audience.
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“I did a couple of songs with Pimp C and got with Trill and everything started taking off,” says Boosie.įrom there, he released a series of mixtapes and street albums, which in turn, helped him land countless shows throughout the south. Just as things began to move for the young rapper, C-Loc was arrested and subsequently incarcerated, resulting in the label folding and Boosie without a deal.īut things took a turn for the better when he hooked up with up-start record label Trill Entertainment and they introduced him to the late great Pimp C of the legendary duo UGK. That same year he released his underground debut LP, For My Thugz, followed by The Youngest of Da Camp in 2004. Impressed with Boosie’s magnetic personality and rhyme skills, C-Loc took the teenager under his wing, signing him to his indie label C-Loc Records where he made his first appearance on wax with C-Locs’s It’s A Gamble LP in 2003. The rapper started his career back in the late 1990s when a mutual friend introduced the 15-year-old to Baton Rouge’s legendary rapper C-Loc. Guests include the aforementioned Young Jeezy and Webbie along with Trina, Bobby V, Fox, Lil’ Phat and Mouse.Īlthough Boosie is best known for the breakout singles, “Wipe Me Down” featuring Webbie and Fox and “Zoom” featuring Young Joc, he’s been a certified stars in the southern underground for years. The 16-track effort boasts production from the likes of The Runners, Mouse on the Track, and B-Real, among others. “I got the women songs, I got the gangsta songs, I got the love songs something for everybody. “With I’m still hittin’ ’em from all angles,” explains the rapper. There is literally a song on here for everybody, he says. According to the rapper, the album promises to improve on the formula of the conceptual diversity that made his first effort so successful.
Superbad is the follow-up to Boosie’s gold-selling, critically acclaimed 2006 debut, Bad Azz. Currently, “Better Believe It,” is making its rounds in the South and Midwest, and starting to spread. Webbie and ATL rapper Young Jeezy give their own intense lyrical testimonies about surviving urban life, as well. Produced by Trill Entertainment’s in-house producer Mouse On The Track, the new single celebrates Boosie’s success since dropping his debut, overcoming pain and adversity that has plagued him most of his life.
To mark his return the 25-year-old rapper, hailing from Baton Rouge, is unleashing the new track, “Better Believe It,” which gets an assist from labelmate Webbie and Young Jeezy. It’s been nearly three years since Louisiana rapper Lil Boosie dropped his debut Bad Azz, but he and his label Trill Entertainment have been in the lab hard at work are are ready for his return with Superbad: The Return of Boosie Bad Azz in September.