Undoubtedly that’s not what Boosie had in mind, as it appears “Bad Ass” is a nickname, one which many will remember he mentioned in David Banner’s hit single “Ain’t Got Nothing.” Regardless the fact he spelled the title with two Z’s will create some amount of confusion between him and the California rapper, so that’s strike two. The album title is problematic too since there’s already a rapper from the West coast named Bad Azz.
Lil Boosie is already one strike down on uniqueness just by virtue of having “Lil” in his name – no offense to dude but there are a million rappers called “Lil” right now, and in the South even more. To stand out from the crowd you need to either be a superb lyricist, a gifted vocalist, or have a personality that sets you apart from the rest of the pack – preferably all three. The market for hardcore Southern rap is heavily saturated right now with both signed and unsigned MC’s who’ve all got a hard knock life and a story to tell. Change the names and dates, change the number of times in and out of jail, maybe he was raised by a single mother instead of a grandmother, but the end result is a world-weary street warrior with hard rhymes. What it does suggest though is that while Boosie’s actual life experience may be uncommon to a majority of his audience, a lot of his audience will have heard his story before from other MC’s. This is the typical kind of hard knock life story you’ve come to expect from gangsta rap artists, but by no means does that invalidate his credibility or deny the reality of what he went through. He grew up in poverty on the South side, moved in with his grandmother after his father was murdered selling drugs, got expelled from school and tried to make a career out of rap between his run-ins with the law.
Lil Boosie was born Torrence Hatch in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1983.
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