I’m a lifelong Hip-Hop fan and I can’t name one Boosie BadAzz track. But I can rattle off at least three remarkably dumb things the rapper has said or tweeted throughout the last few years.
In 2020, there were the statements he made about Zaya Wade, the transgender daughter of retired NBA player Dwyane Wade. The now-deleted video contained so much transphobic ignorance directly referencing Zaya’s genitalia that it’ll make your brain fall out of your nostrils. For his part, Papa Wade responded with absolute class.
Then there was also that time, also in 2020, that Boosie suggested that he orchestrated actual pedophilia by forcing his son and nephews – at 12 and 13 years old – to get “serviced” by grown women as a means to establish their budding “manliness.”
Oh, and there were the multiple homophobic rants against openly gay rapper Lil Nas X in 2021. Dude did everything from threaten to beat Nas X up if he performed on stage to flat-out suggesting he commit suicide – you know, to protect the children.
Kicking off 2024 just as wrong, Boosie tweeted on Tuesday that he walked out of the new “The Color Purple” film because it “seemed like a [rainbow emoji] love story.”
“Good acting but whoever wrote the script is pushing the narrative hard…as a parent I will not let my little girl watch this film,” he wrote in the all-caps that I’m sparing you, dear reader.
Of course, Boosie is talking about the love affair between Celie and Shug Avery, which was basically muted in the 1985 film adaptation of Alice Walker’s book— and which some believe was still muted in the new film. Yet Boosie railed against the film—which is critically lauded and did huge Christmas Day numbers—because, apparently, he believes it will make his daughter gay.
Yes, Boosie … that’s exactly how that works!
Boosie’s relentless myopia is certainly shared by a large swath of men saddled with outmoded ideas of sexuality. Unlike most of those men, however, he’s got more than a million X followers … many of whom likely feel affirmed by the swill coming out of his mouth and fingers.
There’s a larger conversation to be had about the environment and culture that produces dudes like him. But that’s a topic for another column … this one simply posits the question: Why do we bother with Boosie anymore?
Boosie hasn’t charted in 14 years, so does anyone even listen to his new music? He appears to serve zero meaningful purpose in 2024, so perhaps now is the perfect time to leave dude at the top of the year and forget the directions to him.