Lil Boosie Discography

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Eventhough he was controversially convicted and spent time in jail, Lil Boosie is widely considered one of the greatest Southern rappers of all time. Here, you'll find a complete list of the best Lil Boosie albums, including pictures of the album covers when available. This Lil Boosie discography is ranked from best to worst, so the top Lil Boosie albums can be found at the top of the list. To make it easy for you, we haven't included Lil Boosie singles, EPs, or compilations, so everything you see here should only be studio albums. If you think the greatest Lil Boosie album isn't high enough on the list, then be sure to vote for it so it receives the credit it deserves. Make sure you don't just vote for critically acclaimed albums; if you have a favorite Lil Boosie album, then vote it up, even if it's not necessarily the most popular.

If you want to know, "What is the Best Lil Boosie album of all time?" or "What are the top Lil Boosie albums?" then this list will answer your questions. Lil Boosie, also known as Boosie Badazz, has released a range of hit albums throughout his career, with Bad Azz even peaking at number one on the US Rap chart. All of his albums can be found on this list, including Gangsta Musik and the aforementioned Bad Azz.

This list of popular Lil Boosie albums has been voted on by music fans around the world, so the order of this list isn't just one person's opinion. You can share your own opinion by voting up your favorite albums, and voting down any you think should be lower on the list.

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A list like this is impossible to compile without cutting clear essentials. Lil Boosie's discography is convoluted, distributed in a blur of official albums, collaborative records, mixtapes, and loosies. His appearances on Billboard are only a tip of the iceberg; "Zoom," for example, was Boosie's highest charting single, although it's not one of his best songs or especially illustrative of his abilities. But he's an artist with a deep discography that has yet to be sufficiently catalogued.

So take this as just a first step. There's plenty more to cover, like the Cash Money-referencing "I'm A Dog" or the autobiographical "Mercy." A list of ten tracks doesn't have room for his "Old School"-style salute to hip-hop influences (a worldview diverse enough to make room for Petey Pablo and Run-D.M.C.) "What About Me." Also missing: Smash guest spots like "The Way I Live," the fearsome Louisiana bounce of "We Out Chea," the ferocious early bars on "Livin What I'm Spittin," the empathic "Baby Momma." Or the righteous anger of "Fuck the Police." One minute he'd irreverently transform Jeezy's "Trapstar" into "They Dykin'" or appear on UGK's graphic "Harry Asshole." The next minute, he's singing the hook to a song of sincere, flawed vulnerability like "Ain't Comin Home Tonight."

The jokes will fly about how much attention we're giving a mere entertainer, but #factsonly, Boosie matters to a lot of people for a reason. He is an artist of both depth and range, one with a distinct, direct style. He calls his music "reality rap" instead of hip-hop. It means he has no use for abstraction. His verses do not contain fancy curlicues or intricate, baroque ornamentation. Embellishments and wordplay are kept to a minimum; directness at a premium.

If disco proved that the club could be an open, utopian space for people forced by society to the margins, hip-hop proved that dance music could just as easily be a stage for hypermasculine, macho theatrics and the ever-present threat of violence. Saying "Set It Off" sounds "barbed" feels like ungracious understatement. The record is a series of taunts and zero tolerance. Boosie's rhetorical target isn't the only one who's weak; it's his entire bloodline. "Your mama had more heart than your daddy bitch-ass/He ain't gon' set nothin off, that's who made you soft."

Although Boosie has made plenty of consistent projects, the line between the sound of his mixtapes and full albums was pretty negligible; "Set It Off" came from his '06 record Bad Azz, which also produced the medium-hit single "Zoom," and it's packed with the same brittle mid-'00s club sound that backs the bulk of his catalog.

Boosie first became a star with Baton Rouge crew Concentration Camp, but his career really took off with the founding of Trill ENT by Turk, Mel (Lil Phat's father), and Pimp C in the early 2000s. Pimp actually produced a series of records for Boosie during this era, the best of which is the country-sounding "Finger Fuckin," which has a more UGK-esque feel than the metallic textured tracks Boosie would gravitate to later. Driven by a single guitar figure and a harmonica, the song finds Boosie and his new partner Webbie in full rude boy mode; Boosie finishes up his verse rapping, "Finger-fuckin' lead to suckin', that's a rap star dream/Get my dick sucked on the freeway with vanilla whip cream."

A theory: there are no bad songs called "Trouble Man." No, this isn't a cover of Marvin Gaye's classic, although it belongs in the pantheon too. The sequel to Ghetto Stories, Gangsta Musik was another outing for Boosie and Webbie as a fierce Baton Rouge tag-team, although much as it would be throughout his career, Boosie narrowly dodged having a smash under his own name, as Webbie's creep anthem "Give Me That" ended up being the album's runaway hit.

But Boosie's work on the album stands up a bit better overall, particularly "Trouble Man." With twin blues guitar licks wrapping themselves around Boosie's vocals as he weaves a story, he wrestles with the contradictions of success and struggle, hopelessly reaching to escape the archetype he's filling, drawn inexorably towards his fate: "I tell my momma I'm gon' change but I'm gon' be the same/It's understood that I'm a trouble man."

Super Bad was a disappointment from a creative perspective. At the moment when his star seemed truly ascendant, the album was an uneven compromise packed with guest spots from Trill ENT's roster. The Super Bad mixtape released that same year seemed a more consistent release. But "Mind of a Maniac," with its haunted self-analysis (and a striking video featuring Boosie in a straightjacket with his eyelids turned inside-out), was a real moment of powerful, self-lacerating emotional tremors, rage directed inwards and outwards.

Boosie's music is, to use a cliche, raw and uncut. He treats his work as a fiercely authentic window into his experiences. He sees his art as a responsibility to be shouldered as much as a product of personal expression. Although he seems like a guy with an extremely low tolerance for equivocation and bullshit, there's a sincerity at the core of his project that keeps his art from being nihilistic. When his uncensored, unvarnished style hits on a particularly potent emotional truth, it can be devastating. For Boosie, there is no noise; only signal. Each word has its purpose, and no time is wasted. It makes it impossible to feel unmoved by "Betrayed," the kind of drama that makes Brutus and Caesar feel trivial.

OK, so Lil Phat's line ("She cooks, she cleans, never smells like onion rings") steals the show on Webbie, Phat, and Boosie's 2007 smash "Independent." But the song's charismatic center is Boosie, the star who's earned his region's most devoted following. A top ten single, this was Boosie's highest-charting moment, a massive pop culture breakthrough for one of the genre's most hardcore exports. It also flies in the face of conventional wisdom about gangster rap's treatment of women (even if the rest of their catalog, well, doesn't).

Shoulders. Chest. Pants. Shoes. The banger to end all bangers, the remix of Foxx's "Wipe Me Down" was a national dance smash, joining "Independent" in the Billboard Top 40 and giving every other novelty dance single a run for its money with a verse that ranks among Boosie's best, even when compared with his soul-searching, serious material.

"Wipe Me Down" has an effortless effervescence, coasting from verse to verse without wearing out its welcome. While a swift bounce beat from Mouse on Tha Track hums along like a new engine, Boosie opens by spelling out his name, jokes about redbones stealing his underwear, and brags about choking on a pound of purple and being famous like the Ninja Turtles. And, of course, the best reality rap brag of all time: "Fresh fade, fresh J's, on the corner playing spades/I'm a ordinary person but I'm paid."

Boosie is one year older than I am, and although we've led obviously different lives, it is startling to be reminded of this fact, in the little flickers of timeline overlap; his mention of being "Famous like the Ninja Turtles" in "Wipe Me Down," for example (because, obviously, he'd be too old for Power Rangers, and too young for He-Man). Or on "Top to the Bottom," when he mentions the artists who inspired him, quoting Biggie: "It was all a dream, I used to write raps in my notebook/A baby G trynna walk like Eazy E/Tupac was the shit to me, in my front room trynna sing Jodeci..." He goes on to talk about watching Menace To Society.

So how much is Boosie Badazz actually worth? According to our research, Boosie Badazz's net worth is estimated to be $10 Million Dollars. Boosie Badazz's net worth is largely the result of his success as an American Rapper.

Boosie Badazz, whose real name is Torrence Hatch Jr., is a prominent American rapper, songwriter, and actor. Born on November 14, 1982, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, he rose to fame for his raw and authentic style of Southern hip-hop music. With a career spanning over two decades, Boosie has become a respected figure in the rap industry.

Boosie's musical journey began in his early teens when he started rapping and recording his own songs. He gained regional recognition with his mixtapes and collaborations with local artists. However, it was his debut album, "Youngest of da Camp," released in 2000, that put him on the national radar. The album showcased his gritty lyricism and street-oriented storytelling, earning him a loyal fan base.

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