2 on both the US Billboard US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and the US Billboard Top Rap Albums charts. Cole, Young Thug, Rick Ross, Webbie, etc, achieving enormous success as it received positive reviews from music critics and debuted at No. Afterwards, he signed a record deal with Atlantic Records, and began working on his next album, “Touch Down 2 Cause Hell”, which out came in May of 2015 featuring such artists as Chris Brown, J. During the next two years, he also released two collaboration albums with Webbie – “Ghetto Stories” (2003) and “Gangsta Musik” (2004), which featured the hit song “Give Me That”.įollowing his jailing for several drug-related charges, in 2014 Lil Boosie decided to officially change his name to Boosie Badazz. In the following year, he signed a contract with Pimp C’s record label Trill Entertainment, and released his second studio album – “For My Thugz” – featuring Webbie, Pimp C and Young Bleed, followed by his debut mixtape entitled “Boosie 2002 (Advance)”, which increased his net worth by a large margin.

Solo CareerĪs a 17-year-old, Lil Boosie released his debut solo studio album entitled “Youngest Of Da Camp” in August 2000. After Young Bleed’s departure from the Camp, he distinguished himself enough to move to a prime position as a rapper alongside C-Loc and Max Minelli, which encouraged him to pursue further his career, and more seriously. Lil Boosie made his debut on their fifth album “It’s A Gamble” by C-Loc, and then featured on the group’s album entitled “Camp III: Thug Brothas”, both in 2000. Speaking about his professional career, it began in 1996 when Lil Boosie became a part of Concentration Camp, a hip hop collective, which consisted of Boo, C-Loc, Happy Perez, J-Von, Lucky Knuckles, Max Minelli, and Young Bleed he was the youngest member of the group as he was only 14 years old. After his father passed away from a drug overdose in 1996, Lil Boosie moved his focus from poetry to writing music, and decided to pursue a career in the music industry. He actually quit education, but later earned his GED while he serving a jail sentence.

He also developed a love for basketball, so while he was attending McKinley High School, he improved himself as a player. He became interested in poetry from an early age under the influence of his mother, who worked as a teacher. Concerning his early life, Lil Boosie spent his childhood in Baton Rouge, where he was raised by his parents Raymond and Jacquelyn Hatch, in a relatively poor family.

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