The Prison Life of Boosie Badazz | Bloody Angola Podcast

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0:49 Inside these walls, inside the wild. Hadn't went no girls. I Hey everyone, and welcome back to Bloody Angola, a podcast one and forty two years in the making, the complete story of America's bloodiest prison. I'm Jim Chapman, and today I'm going to tell you about a former resident of the United States' largest maximum security prison, Louisiana State Penitentiary and Angola, and for sure one of its most notorious inmates, and that is Little Boozy, later known as Boozy Badass. Now Little Boozy did not start out being named Little Boozy, of course. His given name is Torrance Hatch Junior. He was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. This was on November fourteenth of nineteen eighty two, and he

2:20 grew up on the rougher side of Baton Rouge. To put it mildly, the neighborhood he grew up in it was notorious for its struggles with guns and violence, and he also had to deal with the struggle of losing his father at a very early age in life, and that coupled with the crime Redden neighborhood that Boozy grew up in, this would shape a lot of the subject matter as it related to his music, his chosen craft, which was hip hop slash rap. At the age of fourteen, Boozy had a little bit of light at the end of that tunnel, if you will, when he moved in with his grandmother and that would provide him some stability.

3:06 She would hold Boozy accountable, as grandmothers typically do, and that's something he wasn't used to in his life up to that age. So Boozy's music career it began in the late nineteen nineties. He joined what's known as a hip hop collective concentration camp, and it was led or mentored by a guy from Baton Rouge. It was another rapper known as c Lot and his cousin was Young Bleed, who coincidentally just recently died of a brain aneurysm. This is all over the news right now. So Boozy he starts mastering his craft of hip hop rap and he puts out his first album, his debut, and that debut album was titled as Youngest of Duck Camp DA Duck Camp, and this was in the year two thousand and Boozy at that point in his life was seventeen years old.

4:08 Young guy to be releasing his first album. Now that first album, it's going to perform very well. Considering this was an independent label. This wasn't Sunny Records or Death Row Records or Bad Boy Records Diddy's label. This was an independent label out of the state of Louisiana, and he actually sold ten thousand album which was looked at as a pretty significant achievement. Ten thousand albums, independent label, you're gonna get people noticing your work. And it wasn't long after that that music labels would indeed start to notice, and in two thousand and one he would sign with a larger label known as Trill Entertainment, much larger, much more well known label. And when you sign with these bigger labels, the advantage the artist gets from that is you now have resources to promote you. You got a lot of money behind you, and a lot of times they have mentorships. Inside those bigger labels, you deal with larger artists than yourself. They give you tips things like that, And that's a big part of it because these larger labels, when they see that you got talent, they know that you're going to need some mentorship in your life and they're hoping that someone else can help carry you along.

5:32 And anything in the music world not much different than the podcast world. It's about expanding your reach and getting your name out there. And with this larger label, Boozy was able to do that. Now, at this point in time, rap hip hop different parts of the country had some very different styles. During this time. The sound in New York Diddy's world was completely different than the sound of Los Angeles Toupac Shakur's world, and that was completely different with what would become known as Southern hip hop, and that would become Boozy's forte so Boozy. He would continue on with Trill Entertainment. He would release several other albums, with each subsequent album becoming more successful than the one prior to it. Eventually that would lead to an even larger label taking notice, and that was Universal Records. And all of us have heard of Universal, And it was in two thousand and five that Boozy would sign a major label deal with Universal and also launched one of his biggest hits, which we all know, set it Off.

6:46 I wish I could play it right here, but I can't. But everybody knows set it Off, even if you're not a hip hop fan. Now, this time in Boozie's life also allowed for collaboration with major, high profile artists in the hip hop community, and people would start to compare Boozy to the great in his industry, Tupac Shakur. He would get compared with Tupac a lot, and let me tell you don't get any better than that. But Boozy was not without his issues, and early on in the two thousands he did get arrested multiple times on drug related charges, mainly marijuana related issues. However, in two thousand and nine, Boozy was arrested after East Baton Ridge Pairs Sheriff's deputies found marijuana in a glock in his car.

7:37 Boozy pleaded guilty to his third offense, possession of marijuana. This was on September twenty second of two thousand and nine, and he gets sentenced to two years in prison the next day. Judge Chip Moore actually doubled the sentence on November ninth of that year after finding out Boozy had violated probation while a his sentencing. Between his plea and his sentencing, Boozy was electronically monitored and placed under house arrest, and there was some chatter, I don't know if this is legiti or not that he tampered with his monitor, but there you have it. Then after that the major issues surfaced when on June seventeenth of twenty ten, Boozy was indicted on charges of the first degree murder of Terry Boyd. Now he also faced three counts of possession with intent to distribute narcotics, three counts of conspiracy to commit possession with the intent to distribute narcotics, and two counts of conspiracy to introduce contraband into a penal institution, meaning he brought or he tried to bring drugs into prison and through his people. Boozy issued a statement saying he was innocent of the charges. Of course, he would have expect that.

9:00 Now. District Attorney Hiller Moore stated that the killing of Boyd. Remember he's indicted on charges of first degree murder in the murder of Terry Boyd. District Attorney Hiller Moore of Baton Rouge said that this killing seemed to be a turf war of sorts, and if convicted, Boozy could have faced the death penalty in this case, so he had a lot to worry about. First degree murder in the state of Louisiana does qualify for the death penalty. Prosecutors also stated they believe the riper may have been involved in at least five other murders. So on June twenty eighth of twenty ten, Boozy enters a not guilty plea in the Louisiana courtroom. And of course you expect that you got nothing to lose to plead not guilty at an arrangment. In the meantime, in twenty eleven, remember those drug charges, Well those cases caught up to Boozy and he sent it. It's to eight years in prison. Now he still had that murder case for Terry Boyd to deal with. And in twenty twelve, get this, he actually beats that case. The jury came to a unanimous not guilty verdict on the murder charge and they only deliberated about ten minutes. You don't see that often when a prosecution brings a case to trial. So while that's great for a little Boozy, I mean he beat a first

10:32 degree murder charge in a possible death penalty. I don't think they would have went after him for the death penalty in that case. I think they would have went for life in prison. But regardless, it was possible. He beat that some bitch, but he was still in prison on drug related charges and it was off to Louisiana State Penitentiary to serve that sentence or to complete serving that sentence. Jim, did you see what happened in Texas today? Wait before you tell me that, let me tell you what happened in New York. It cannot be as crazy as the case I told you about yesterday in Louisiana. You know what, we should do a podcast about it.

11:15 And with that we did. Crime War Weekly covers the crime news headlines that have dominated the week. We cover trending crimes from all over the country, and even sprinkle in a few globally. Crime War Weekly is available now wherever you listen to your podcasts. Simply by searching Crime War Weekly or clicking the link in the description of this podcast. In the sultry heat of Louisiana, where the Bayous whisper secrets and the air hangs heavy with the scent of magnolias, a darkness lurked beneath the surface. Derek Todd Lee was a man whose charm masked a sinister reality. He was a monster. Lee, a seemingly ordinary man with a disarming smile, led a double life that would unravel in a series of murders in the capital city of Baton Rouge and the surrounding areas. As the first reports of disappearances and murders began to surface, South Louisiana was thrust into a nightmare, igniting a frantic search for answers. The true horror was just beginning, and the hunt for a serial killer eventually known by just three letters, would reveal not only the depths of Derek Todd Lee's depravity, but also the resilience of those most affected by his evil acts, the families and the survivors.

12:42 This is DTL. So Basi goes off to prison, and he's obviously a very popular person outside of the prison and guarantee inside bloodying Gola as well. He didn't just go to prison, He went to Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, and they knew Boozy was on his way. And you just can't put these high profile inmates inside of general population. With Boozy, They're not going to put him in general population. That just ain't gonna work. They'll kill him in there.

13:23 So Boozy had to spend a lot of his time inside the death row wing at Bloody in Gola. Essentially he was locked down during that time. Now, I would imagine he didn't have the restrictions that inmates who were serving death in the death row wing had. I mean, he got to move about his area. I'm sure a heck of a lot more than being locked down twenty three hours a day. And there is some debate, and I don't know the answer to this question. Some people say that he spent a few years inside of the death row and then he got moved into another part of the prison that was general population. I find that hard to believe. I don't think Boozy ever got in just stone cold general population with other inmates. There's a guy that serves some time with him. I listened to that interview and he claims Boozy was locked up the whole time in protective custody. I don't know, but take it from what you will. I do know one thing.

14:28 There's a lot of props in prison. If someone would have took Boozy out, and if I know that, certainly the powers of being in Goola would know that. Now. He also had a lot of time in prison that he was probably not used to having. When you're a hard working rapper and you're always on the road and you write music, but he had a lot of time inside Bloody and Gola. And when you got nothing but time on your hands and your rapper, what are you gonna do? You're gonna write songs. And that's exactly what little Boozie did. He actually wrote over one thousand songs while being locked up inside Louisiana State Penitentiary. So Boozy hasn't said a whole lot about his time in prison in Louisiana State Penitentiary, but he did appear on what's known as The Breakfast Club. This is a radio show.

15:25 It's actually pretty good. It's recorded out of New York City, and he discussed some of his time inside Louisiana State Penitentiary Bengola and some of the things he saw and even some of the things he did while he was there. I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna play this clip, but I'm gonna give you a couple of I don't know if i'd call him warnings, but just look, what's about to be said is pretty vulgar. It's life inside of prison according to or Bazy Badass. Now this is his account. I don't know if it's true or not true, but this is his account and his account only. And look, if you're not into vulgar stuff, you probably don't listen to this podcast anyway. But if it doesn't bother you, you're gonna get some knowledge out of what it's like to be inside prison. According to a little Boozy, with this five minute club.

16:27 In prison, that's when I you know, that's when I kind of was a jack off machine. Even the guards, you know, like a guard, a guard never ran to the man on me, like and I respect every guard who did that because I needed at that time. You know, they gave me eye contact. They let me get off. The female guards. Yes, yeah, you said the guard. We don't know what you mean. Oh you know, nah, like the female guards. Yeah, you know, like. Okay, just say up the shower right here, right and they have the brick wall. You're looking over the brickwall. You're not supposed to look at that woman because she'll go to the man and say, you guys, you're jagging off.

17:13 But no woman ever ran to the man on me like they'll they'll let me get off. You know, they'll turn around like they're writing on the desk. You know what I'm saying. So I respect every woman who did that. Then I used to jag off on the phone with who I was talking to, you know, I used to get off the wharton came say a boosy, stop it, stop it. They're talking about the phone. Lady said she can't take it no more because they don't matter. They say, Bootsy, stop it. I wish the bro they said. They came down there. I thought I was finna get locked up, big old white boy coming down that.

17:58 Boosy stop it. And I forget you was an ain't goola boy. I've been three years on death row. God damn you three years. I feel like you could do a movie just on prison. I feel like, Booty, you could do a whole movie saw in prison. I don't. I don't. I mean, hey, you got your gola and gola is. The Fed joint is nothing, bro, the Fed that is everybody got money in the Feed. Everybody ain't nobody and Gola was negative. Everybody mostly negative. It was. It was a lot of negativity, even death roll. You know everybody finna die. You know it's negative.

18:41 You know, Boots, they got you back on the TV. Nigga, you have him, You have him on the TV. Nigga. You know, I don't thank you. I don't know, Boots out. You know that. It's different when when I did a couple of weeks in the FED, because everybody, it's more motivation, Bro, It's more motivation. Bro. It was like, man, when I walk down on a nigga riding a deck. How about after you where you saw the cocaine in the show and ain't go I didn't know about it. I say, all y'all niggas looking at my pictures for three days, ain't nobody tell me about the cocaine. And when I saw that, Bro, I was like, I won't go home. I watched that. I show people that video at least twice a year in my life. Nigga was riding backwards in h riding a dick backwards.

19:25 I say, man, Bro, I say, bruh, my bad bro. And I walked out that motherfucker on shambos. I say, girl, reverse cole girl. I say, man, this is this is sick. But see when I first saw the video. The thing that always gets me is you said after you saw it, you said, man, you got on the phone. You say you call your mamas. I said, come get me, said, I. Say, mama, Man go everything I can make you call you can I get a bund. I want a bond. I want a bund. I wanted to get out that big hood that ain't no place for no bro man Brown. I used to argue with it. Then I used to get in the arguments, be about to fight with dudes who who don't think that's nothing wrong.

20:12 With it because they giveing a dick. You know. I used to tell them, man, you're gay. You know I don't. I used to tell him, maybe, nah, nigga, I'm standing up, nigga, I'm fucking him. He's a whole, you know. And and the women and not the women, but the you know, the Homosexus and that Goali. They different. You know. They can't stand up around you and piss. They have to sit when they pissed. You can't call them by a name. They all they all have a different name if it's Quinn is Coalicia. You know, they do have respect for the for the men. But I used to get into it with people when I'm telling them, man, that's not you're thinking. You're not doing nothing like I don't want, bro, I don't want you to. I don't want don't you do think that it's cool like you know, but you're saying it's cool, and you get out there saying that they're gonna say you're a predator, you knowing, I saw that. I saw how people come in there and all these people.

21:18 Who taking advantage of yes, ok o, yes, it's. All kind of ways they might. They might put them on Serrah quills. Maam, why watch movies with a put them on Seriah quills. Then up that knife one. You're gonna you're gonna, You're gonna what you're gonna do, You're gonna get it to You're gonna make me take it. All right, Jesus and nig gonna they're. Gonna bust that motherfucker over. Broh, bro the motherfuckers. You ain't never told that side of the story. It's sick. Bro. Then whoever all these people touching these kids, they waiting on you to come. They already they got your name. They don't know if you did it or not. They waiting on you to come, so, Bro, they child molestors, they don't. That's been going on in prison though, Like they waiting on you. They got you when you first catch your charge. They got your name, waiting for you to come up there. And it's brother, it's sick.

22:15 Bro. I ain't mad at that. If you really did it, though, if you really put your hands on the child, you deserve whatever you get. Yeah. Yeah, but I'm just letting the child molestors know. So I could tell him to stop sucking with that, because when you go up there, the guards are not gonna protake you. They ain't on it. He's one right there. They gonna get you. They're gonna turn that back on you. Go get some coffee when you come when he when he comes back, you fucked. Up cocaine in the shower, reverse cowgirl. I don't want to talk about. It's enough. Sur there you have it some pretty wild freaking stuff. And as I said, I don't have any direct knowledge of any of that, obviously, but that's his story and he's sticking to it. So he gets released from prison in twenty fourteen, after serving about four years behind bars.

23:05 There's a good time mixed in there and all kinds of stuff, so he didn't obviously service whole sentence. Now, during that time, especially toward the end of his sentence, there was a big uproar in the hip hop community and fans of hip hop. They wanted him released, and they actually started what's known as or what became known at the time as the Free Boozy movement. Now, fellow artist activists, you name it. They were calling for Boozy's release, and that did happen four years after his incarceration. Now not necessarily tied to that movement, but certainly around the time.

23:49 So in some people's mind, hey, this Free Boozy movement did some good. I don't think it had anything to do with it. But he does get out of prison. Let me tell you, he goes off like a rocket in the hip hop community. He becomes one of the biggest hip hop artists there is in that time. All over the music world, especially hip hop, everybody wanted a piece of Little Boozy, who at this point had changed his name to Boozy Badass and life if it was great. Before he went into Angola, and got incarcerated. It was absolutely unbelievable. Once he got out. Now, for the most part, it seemed like he was keeping his nose clean. He was doing interviews every now and then, he was focusing on hist honing his craft, and everything seemed fine. That is until May of twenty twenty three. So Boozy gets pulled over in a vehicle that he was writing in.

24:58 He wasn't driving the vehicle, well, he didn't own the vehicle. He's a passenger in the vehicle. And according to Boozy, he didn't know there were two firearms inside that vehicle. And he's a convicted felon. Can't have firearms in a vehicle that you're riding in when you're a convicted felon. The San Diego police in California, they pulled the driver over with Boozy in the passenger seat. They consent to a search of the police find these two guns, and all of a sudden, in twenty twenty three, Boozy Badass got a big problem, a major problem. As I said, he's a convicted felon. That's a violation of his parole and it also carries new charges, so he would have to serve out his initial sentence that he got paroled for and then he would have to answer for the new charges. That could mean a lot of time in prison for Boozy. So he was in California at that time to sh a music video and then he was going to perform at a nightclub in San Diego in just a bad set of circumstances according to him. Now, as I said, it wasn't his vehicle was someone else's vehicle.

26:14 The guns supposedly did not belong to him, And initially the case was dismissed in twenty twenty three. I mean, Boozy is a star, you know, upper level, a class star in the hip hop industry. That's also it can be a violent industry. It's hard for me to imagine him not having bodyguards and stuff with guns on them. I don't know what the rules are on that, but regardless, in twenty twenty three, that case gets dismissed. But in twenty twenty four, a new indictment gets issued on those gun charges, and in August of twenty twenty five, just a few months ago, he did plead guilty to a single count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Now, as part of his plea agreement prosecutors. They recommended to the judge a two year sentence followed by three years of supervised release. Now he is scheduled to be sentenced this month. As a matter of fact, November twenty first is his sentencing date. Now, usually with these types of cases, the judge will go with the prosecutors recommended sentence. Although they don't have to do that, they just typically do that.

27:37 I mean, technically he could get fifteen years for this charge, this single charge. But assuming the judge does what's typically done, it looks like he's going to get two years in jail for this. Now he'll probably serve a year or less of actual time. We'll see, but he's up against it with that one. Now, if you're curious, I know I was. Boozy has seen a bit of a jump in his net worth since his release from prison way back in twenty fourteen. Now, when going to prison, it was estimated his net worth was between a million and two million dollars. Now that figures between ten and fourteen million dollars of net worth, and that's public, that's not his actual I think it's much higher than that in actuality.

28:32 But make no mistake. The dude definitely has money, and regardless of that, it looks like he may do at least a little bit of time on this charge, but a very short stint. And look, it's up to him to make sure no one around him has guns on them when he's in a vehicle, et cetera. And I know the lifestyle he lives and it's absolutely crazy. But if you're in a car and they can't tie a gun to a particular individual, you're gonna go down for it. It looks like here it's more about setting an example of anything else in this situation. But there you have it.

29:13 I hope you enjoyed learning a little bit more about little Boozy Boozy Badass and his time inside Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola. And look, I gotta say, bean, someone from the Baton Ridge area. I grew up in Baton Rouge shout out Broadmore High School. I know he's had a lot of scrapes with the law, and I don't know a lot of behind the scenes stuff that goes on with Boozy Badass, but I can tell you the guy has definitely put in some work to get from where he came from. In Baton Rudge to the life he lives now, and I can't do anything but at least respect the business side of what he's done. And I like his music. I mean mean, if wipe it down, don't get you fired up, I don't know what will.

30:04 That's a great song. Thank you so much for listening. It took me a little longer than normal to get this one out. We've been rocking and rolling with a lot of things, not only on Bloody and Gola related stuff, but also the all the podcasts really that I produce and a host and all those sorts of things. Check out DTL. Kelly Jennings tells the story of Derek Todd Lee, the notory serial killer from the Baton Rouge area. Episode one, as of this recording is currently out. Episode two is going to be released. It may be released today, it depends on when I get this particular Bloody and Gola episode out. But every Monday for the next four months, a new episode of DTL is going to be dropped every Monday. Kelly Jennings tells that story like no one else, and it's highly produced, got a lot of music behind it, some sound effects. I call it a listening experience. You can find it just search Unspeakable, a true crime podcast by Kelly Jennings wherever you get your podcasts. I'll also link her podcast in the description of this podcast. Also check out Expose Scandalous Files of the Elite. I talk about just the high profile wild shit that goes on in the United States. They got more money than time and sense, and I break down just the wild shit

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