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H a wall street line, shackle change, Oh someome gird,
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it's calling my name. There is no mercy and it's
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been a tentery juice as the hill Stream game Rango.
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The three.
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Come in by me to die.
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Inside these walls, inside the wild.
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Hadn't went no girls.
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I Hey everyone, and welcome back to Bloody Angola, a
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podcast one and forty two years in the making, the
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complete story of America's bloodiest prison. I'm Jim Chapman, and
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today I'm going to tell you about a former resident
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of the United States' largest maximum security prison, Louisiana State
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Penitentiary and Angola, and for sure one of its most
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notorious inmates, and that is Little Boozy, later known as
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Boozy Badass. Now Little Boozy did not start out being
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named Little Boozy, of course. His given name is Torrance
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Hatch Junior. He was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. This
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was on November fourteenth of nineteen eighty two, and he
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grew up on the rougher side of Baton Rouge. To
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put it mildly, the neighborhood he grew up in it
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was notorious for its struggles with guns and violence, and
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he also had to deal with the struggle of losing
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his father at a very early age in life, and
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that coupled with the crime Redden neighborhood that Boozy grew
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up in, this would shape a lot of the subject
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matter as it related to his music, his chosen craft,
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which was hip hop slash rap. At the age of fourteen,
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Boozy had a little bit of light at the end
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of that tunnel, if you will, when he moved in
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with his grandmother and that would provide him some stability.
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She would hold Boozy accountable, as grandmothers typically do, and
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that's something he wasn't used to in his life up
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to that age. So Boozy's music career it began in
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the late nineteen nineties. He joined what's known as a
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hip hop collective concentration camp, and it was led or
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mentored by a guy from Baton Rouge. It was another
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rapper known as c Lot and his cousin was Young Bleed,
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who coincidentally just recently died of a brain aneurysm. This
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is all over the news right now. So Boozy he
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starts mastering his craft of hip hop rap and he
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puts out his first album, his debut, and that debut
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album was titled as Youngest of Duck Camp DA Duck Camp,
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and this was in the year two thousand and Boozy
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at that point in his life was seventeen years old.
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Young guy to be releasing his first album. Now that
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first album, it's going to perform very well. Considering this
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was an independent label. This wasn't Sunny Records or Death
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Row Records or Bad Boy Records Diddy's label. This was
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an independent label out of the state of Louisiana, and
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he actually sold ten thousand album which was looked at
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as a pretty significant achievement. Ten thousand albums, independent label,
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you're gonna get people noticing your work. And it wasn't
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long after that that music labels would indeed start to notice,
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and in two thousand and one he would sign with
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a larger label known as Trill Entertainment, much larger, much
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more well known label. And when you sign with these
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bigger labels, the advantage the artist gets from that is
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you now have resources to promote you. You got a
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lot of money behind you, and a lot of times
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they have mentorships. Inside those bigger labels, you deal with
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larger artists than yourself. They give you tips things like that,
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And that's a big part of it because these larger labels,
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when they see that you got talent, they know that
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you're going to need some mentorship in your life and
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they're hoping that someone else can help carry you along.
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And anything in the music world not much different than
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the podcast world. It's about expanding your reach and getting
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your name out there. And with this larger label, Boozy
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was able to do that. Now, at this point in time,
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rap hip hop different parts of the country had some
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very different styles. During this time. The sound in New
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York Diddy's world was completely different than the sound of
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Los Angeles Toupac Shakur's world, and that was completely different
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with what would become known as Southern hip hop, and
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that would become Boozy's forte so Boozy. He would continue
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on with Trill Entertainment. He would release several other albums,
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with each subsequent album becoming more successful than the one
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prior to it. Eventually that would lead to an even
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larger label taking notice, and that was Universal Records. And
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all of us have heard of Universal, And it was
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in two thousand and five that Boozy would sign a
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major label deal with Universal and also launched one of
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his biggest hits, which we all know, set it Off.
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I wish I could play it right here, but I can't.
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But everybody knows set it Off, even if you're not
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a hip hop fan. Now, this time in Boozie's life
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also allowed for collaboration with major, high profile artists in
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the hip hop community, and people would start to compare
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Boozy to the great in his industry, Tupac Shakur. He
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would get compared with Tupac a lot, and let me
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tell you don't get any better than that. But Boozy
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was not without his issues, and early on in the
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two thousands he did get arrested multiple times on drug
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related charges, mainly marijuana related issues. However, in two thousand
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and nine, Boozy was arrested after East Baton Ridge Pairs
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Sheriff's deputies found marijuana in a glock in his car.
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Boozy pleaded guilty to his third offense, possession of marijuana.
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This was on September twenty second of two thousand and nine,
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and he gets sentenced to two years in prison the
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next day. Judge Chip Moore actually doubled the sentence on
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November ninth of that year after finding out Boozy had
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violated probation while a his sentencing. Between his plea and
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his sentencing, Boozy was electronically monitored and placed under house arrest,
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and there was some chatter, I don't know if this
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is legiti or not that he tampered with his monitor,
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but there you have it. Then after that the major
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issues surfaced when on June seventeenth of twenty ten, Boozy
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was indicted on charges of the first degree murder of
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Terry Boyd. Now he also faced three counts of possession
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with intent to distribute narcotics, three counts of conspiracy to
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commit possession with the intent to distribute narcotics, and two
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counts of conspiracy to introduce contraband into a penal institution,
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meaning he brought or he tried to bring drugs into
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prison and through his people. Boozy issued a statement saying
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he was innocent of the charges. Of course, he would
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have expect that.
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Now.
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District Attorney Hiller Moore stated that the killing of Boyd.
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Remember he's indicted on charges of first degree murder in
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the murder of Terry Boyd. District Attorney Hiller Moore of
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Baton Rouge said that this killing seemed to be a
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turf war of sorts, and if convicted, Boozy could have
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faced the death penalty in this case, so he had
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a lot to worry about. First degree murder in the
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state of Louisiana does qualify for the death penalty. Prosecutors
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also stated they believe the riper may have been involved
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in at least five other murders. So on June twenty
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eighth of twenty ten, Boozy enters a not guilty plea
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in the Louisiana courtroom. And of course you expect that
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you got nothing to lose to plead not guilty at
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an arrangment. In the meantime, in twenty eleven, remember those
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drug charges, Well those cases caught up to Boozy and
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he sent it. It's to eight years in prison. Now
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he still had that murder case for Terry Boyd to
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deal with. And in twenty twelve, get this, he actually
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beats that case. The jury came to a unanimous not
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guilty verdict on the murder charge and they only deliberated
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about ten minutes. You don't see that often when a
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prosecution brings a case to trial. So while that's great
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for a little Boozy, I mean he beat a first
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degree murder charge in a possible death penalty. I don't
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think they would have went after him for the death
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penalty in that case. I think they would have went
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for life in prison. But regardless, it was possible. He
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beat that some bitch, but he was still in prison
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on drug related charges and it was off to Louisiana
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State Penitentiary to serve that sentence or to complete serving
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that sentence.
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Jim, did you see what happened in Texas today?
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Wait before you tell me that, let me tell you
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what happened in New York.
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It cannot be as crazy as the case I told
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you about yesterday in Louisiana.
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You know what, we should do a podcast about it.
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In the sultry heat of Louisiana, where the Bayous whisper
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secrets and the air hangs heavy with the scent of magnolias,
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a darkness lurked beneath the surface. Derek Todd Lee was
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a man whose charm masked a sinister reality. He was
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a monster. Lee, a seemingly ordinary man with a disarming smile,
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led a double life that would unravel in a series
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of murders in the capital city of Baton Rouge and
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the surrounding areas. As the first reports of disappearances and
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murders began to surface, South Louisiana was thrust into a nightmare,
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igniting a frantic search for answers. The true horror was
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just beginning, and the hunt for a serial killer eventually
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known by just three letters, would reveal not only the
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depths of Derek Todd Lee's depravity, but also the resilience
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of those most affected by his evil acts, the families
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and the survivors.
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This is DTL. So Basi goes off to prison, and
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he's obviously a very popular person outside of the prison
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and guarantee inside bloodying Gola as well. He didn't just
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go to prison, He went to Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola,
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and they knew Boozy was on his way. And you
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just can't put these high profile inmates inside of general population.
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With Boozy, They're not going to put him in general population.
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That just ain't gonna work. They'll kill him in there.
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So Boozy had to spend a lot of his time
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inside the death row wing at Bloody in Gola. Essentially
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he was locked down during that time. Now, I would
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imagine he didn't have the restrictions that inmates who were
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serving death in the death row wing had. I mean,
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he got to move about his area. I'm sure a
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heck of a lot more than being locked down twenty
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three hours a day. And there is some debate, and
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I don't know the answer to this question. Some people
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say that he spent a few years inside of the
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death row and then he got moved into another part
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of the prison that was general population. I find that
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hard to believe. I don't think Boozy ever got in
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just stone cold general population with other inmates. There's a
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guy that serves some time with him. I listened to
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that interview and he claims Boozy was locked up the
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whole time in protective custody. I don't know, but take
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it from what you will. I do know one thing.
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There's a lot of props in prison. If someone would
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have took Boozy out, and if I know that, certainly
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the powers of being in Goola would know that.
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Now.
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He also had a lot of time in prison that
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he was probably not used to having. When you're a
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hard working rapper and you're always on the road and
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you write music, but he had a lot of time
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inside Bloody and Gola. And when you got nothing but
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time on your hands and your rapper, what are you
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gonna do? You're gonna write songs. And that's exactly what
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little Boozie did. He actually wrote over one thousand songs
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while being locked up inside Louisiana State Penitentiary. So Boozy
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hasn't said a whole lot about his time in prison
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in Louisiana State Penitentiary, but he did appear on what's
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known as The Breakfast Club. This is a radio show.
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It's actually pretty good. It's recorded out of New York City,
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and he discussed some of his time inside Louisiana State
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Penitentiary Bengola and some of the things he saw and
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even some of the things he did while he was there.
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I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna play this clip,
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but I'm gonna give you a couple of I don't
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know if i'd call him warnings, but just look, what's
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about to be said is pretty vulgar. It's life inside
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of prison according to or Bazy Badass. Now this is
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his account. I don't know if it's true or not true,
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but this is his account and his account only. And look,
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if you're not into vulgar stuff, you probably don't listen
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to this podcast anyway. But if it doesn't bother you,
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you're gonna get some knowledge out of what it's like
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to be inside prison. According to a little Boozy, with
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this five minute club.
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In prison, that's when I you know, that's when I
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kind of was a jack off machine. Even the guards,
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you know, like a guard, a guard never ran to
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the man on me, like and I respect every guard