When did you start rapping? Oh, I got into rap when I was like ten. I started writin’, rappin’, you know, and once I was about 14, I was hot. I’m 21 now. Was that when you hooked up with Trill? I was already like the hottest in my city before I was with Trill because I was with C-Loc and the Concentration Camp. C-Loc had gotten in a little trouble, and Trill came and snatched me up. C-Loc is back out now, right? Yeah, we just did another song together called “Take A Picture.” Are you gonna be doing another project with him then? Nah, I’m loyal to Trill now, I just did it for him when he came home because he put me in the game. And you ran into a similar situation with Trill, because Pimp C got locked up. Yeah, but our CEOs, Mel and Turk, they had to step up. Isn’t Pimp C supposed to be coming home soon? Yeah, he get out at the end of the year. Do you think that’s gonna be a big boost for your label? Do you plan on recording with him? Yeah, as soon as Pimp come home, we gonna go back to the studio right off top. Do you think that people like C-Loc and Pimp C get the credit they deserve on a national level? Yeah, in certain people’s eyes they get credit, but most people don’t know. It wasn’t like it was supposed to be. But that’s why they got me now. I’m taking it to that level. I’m gonna take over that. When is your next album coming out? It’s coming out August 5th. It’s called Boosie Bad Ass. What was the situation with Mr. Magic and Roy Jones Jr.? You and Magic had that song called “I Smoke, I Drank,” and Roy took you off the song and put it out nationally and it blew up. I guess Roy Jones is the boss or whatever. They just took me off the song. It wasn’t no big deal, though. So you’re cool with Magic now? Yeah, we straight. It ain’t no beef or nothing. That wasn’t his call, you know. I heard you were on the radio talking about how you were gonna sue Roy. Nah, man, I’m too real to sue somebody. I ain’t gonna sue nobody. I got people that owe me right now, but I ain’t gonna sue them for a couple G’s. I’m already getting money like that. So when you first came out you were a solo artist? Yeah I was the first solo artist on Trill. I put out my first album on Trill, it was the For My Thugs CD. Then after that, me and Webbie came with that Gangsta Muzik and people started really liking Webbie too. Us together, it kinda
blowed us up even more. But we solo artists, though, you know. Do you think people were confused which songs were yours and which were Webbie’s? Yeah, I really think so. You know, I think they was confused. But we on the big screen now, so they know. Do you plan on putting any more albums out together? We dropping his album in July, you know, and my album in August. Then we’re gonna drop Trill Family Volume One, kinda like Cash Money Millionaires. That’s how we’re gonna come with that.
lum, do you think you’ll have to switch up your style yo sound a little more commercial or radio-friendly? It’s still gonna be all the way gutter. I got a couple songs on there for the ladies, four or five songs about the struggle and the hustle, four or five songs about the headbussin’. Every album I drop, you can just put it in and let it drop. That’s why they be waiting so anxiously for me to drop. Do you plan on putting out a mixtape or anything ahead of time to promote your album? I might put out that Bad Ass Holdup. I don’t know, it depends on how good my boy Webbie’s album is doing.
Who produced most of your album? Your inhouse producer Mouse? Yeah, Mouse. It’s mostly my in-house dude. You know, we probably gonna be getting some more tracks from Mannie Fresh.
Is there tension between you and Webbie? Nah. We got our differences, but you know, that’s what makes us raw. Everybody got our differences. Webbie, he’s the wild type. I’m laid-back, big dawg status. Webbie is wild.
Who else is featured on the album? Mostly just Webbie, and I’ll probably put Camron and Juelz Santana on there. Maybe Joey Crack too, I don’t know yet.
Since you’ve gotten your deal with Asylum, did you make any major purchases? Any houses or cars? I got a couple cars. I got a 745 Beemer, I got that new Magnum, I got that new Monte Carlo, that race car. I got a couple Cadillacs.
You’ve got some East coast dudes on there, trying to switch it up a little bit. Yeah, I’m trying to get that New York market, that Cali market. I might do something with Mya. It’s jumping off right now. I just did the video for “Ain’t Got Nothing,” me, David Banner, and Magic. That’s hot right now, you know? Do you think you and Webbie are gonna be the ones to put Baton Rouge on the map? Yeah, every hood that we go through, they love us. We got real love, you know what I’m sayin’? We’ve got our music on a national level. We sellin’ 45,000, shit, we got 10,000 CDs at a time with 40 states behind us. We gonna take it to that level, you know? We gonna be like Pac and Biggie like some of that shit. Now that Trill has signed a label deal with Asy-
So you’re the man in Baton Rouge. Yeah, I been the man in Baton Rouge since I was like 15, since I was in C-Loc’s camp. As soon as they heard me, I was hot. We kept dropping albums. I been the man, they love me in my city. Everybody that knows me knows I’m not telling no lies. They 100% behind me. Is there anything else you want to say? Free Mystikal. Rest in peace Lil Ivey and my grandmother, she kept me focused. They always told me I was gonna be a good rapper. And my album Boosie Bad Ass comes out August 5th, the first single is “Super Fly” and the second single is “Fresh Cut.” - Julia Beverly (photo: King Yella) OZONE JUNE 2005
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