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Speaker 2: Come in by me to die.
Speaker 1: Inside these walls, inside the wild.
Speaker 3: Hadn't went no girls.
Speaker 4: 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 4: 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
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.
Speaker 2: Jim, did you see what happened in Texas today?
Speaker 4: Wait before you tell me that, let me tell you
what happened in New York.
Speaker 2: It cannot be as crazy as the case I told
you about yesterday in Louisiana.
Speaker 4: You know what, we should do a podcast about it.
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crime news headlines that have dominated the week.
Speaker 4: We cover trending crimes from all over the country, and
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Speaker 2: 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.
Speaker 4: 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.
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.
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.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 4: 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.
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.
Speaker 5: 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.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 5: 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.
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.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. So I respect every woman
who did that.
Speaker 5: 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.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 5: I wish the bro they said.
Speaker 3: They came down there.
Speaker 5: I thought I was finna get locked up, big old
white boy coming down that.
Speaker 3: Boosy stop it.
Speaker 6: And I forget you was an ain't goola boy.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 5: 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.
Speaker 3: It was. It was a lot of negativity, even death roll.
You know everybody finna die. You know it's negative.
Speaker 5: You know, Boots, they got you back on the TV. Nigga,
you have him, You have him on the TV.
Speaker 3: Nigga. You know, I don't thank you. I don't know,
Boots out. You know that.
Speaker 5: 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.
Speaker 4: Bro.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 5: I say, all y'all niggas looking at my pictures for
three days, ain't nobody tell me about the cocaine.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 5: Nigga was riding backwards in h riding a dick backwards.
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.
Speaker 3: But see when I first saw the video.
Speaker 6: The thing that always gets me is you said after
you saw it, you said, man, you got on the phone.
Speaker 3: You say you call your mamas. I said, come get me, said, I.
Speaker 5: Say, mama, Man go everything I can make you call
you can I get a bund.
Speaker 3: I want a bond. I want a bund.
Speaker 5: I wanted to get out that big hood that ain't
no place for no bro man Brown.
Speaker 3: I used to argue with it.
Speaker 5: Then I used to get in the arguments, be about
to fight with dudes who who don't think that's nothing wrong.
Speaker 3: With it because they giveing a dick. You know. I
used to tell them, man, you're gay. You know I don't.
Speaker 5: I used to tell him, maybe, nah, nigga, I'm standing up, nigga,
I'm fucking him.
Speaker 3: He's a whole, you know.
Speaker 5: And and the women and not the women, but the
you know, the Homosexus and that Goali.
Speaker 3: They different. You know.
Speaker 5: 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.
Speaker 3: Who taking advantage of yes, ok o, yes, it's.
Speaker 5: 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.
Speaker 3: All right, Jesus and nig gonna they're.
Speaker 5: Gonna bust that motherfucker over. Broh, bro the motherfuckers.
Speaker 6: You ain't never told that side of the story.
Speaker 3: It's sick.
Speaker 2: Bro.
Speaker 5: Then whoever all these people touching these kids, they waiting
on you to come.
Speaker 3: They already they got your name. They don't know if
you did it or not.
Speaker 5: 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.
Speaker 3: Bro. I ain't mad at that.
Speaker 6: If you really did it, though, if you really put
your hands on the child, you deserve whatever you get.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, but I'm just letting the child molestors know.
Speaker 5: So I could tell him to stop sucking with that,
because when you go up there, the guards are not
gonna protake you.
Speaker 3: They ain't on it. He's one right there.
Speaker 5: 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.
Speaker 3: Up cocaine in the shower, reverse cowgirl. I don't want
to talk about. It's enough.
Speaker 4: 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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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,
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can find it just search Unspeakable, a true crime podcast
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in the United States. They got more money than time
and sense, and I break down just the wild shit
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