Lil Boosie Is Not Interested In The Illuminati

You’ve been on songs with Jeezy and Rick Ross. Do you see yourself signing to CTE or Maybach?
Nah, I don’t see myself [with them]. I am my own boss. I rock with Meek, Ross. I rock with Jeezy, too. Jeezy my big homie. As far as signing with them? Nah. I’m my own boss. I’m finna get my own label deal and sign people. We just collabing and make stuff happen and make good music together. I rather have entities than paperwork. You know, we just make music together and I can take steps from them by them being successful. CTE, Maybach Music. They can show me some things to help make my label and when I join—whoever I go with to make it successful and tell me the ins and outs of what not to do. Give me some pointers. I’m a real dude. I don’t have pride in listening to nobody.

Are there any new cats that you like right now? You were humming the words to Young Thug’s “Stoner” in the elevator.
Nah, I don’t really fuck with him like that. I just like his song. I never met him or anything like that. I heard he with my uncle, Birdman. I don’t really listen to nobody. I gotta keep it real. When I get in the car, I’m listening to as much as me. I ain’t got time to be listening to nobody [else]. I’m still trying to perfect my artwork. I’ve always been like that. If it’s an album I am listening to, it’s probably Tupac’s All Eyez On Me or [The Notorious B.I.G.’s] Ready To Die or [Jeezy’s Let’s Get It:] Thug Motivation 101. I listen to classic albums that I ain’t gotta fast forward. If I gotta fast forward it three times, I don’t like your music. Well, not your music, not your album. Yeah, I don’t like your album.

What do you think of the current state of hip-hop?
I’d just like to say it is trendy. I just would say if one person make a good song and sound something like that, I just feel so many people follow that same song. That makes everything sound similar when people do that. I’m glad they doing that ‘cause I just go right in this lane right here. I go right in this lane with something else so people be like, ‘Okay. This different.’

I think that’s why a lot of people want me back so bad ’cause they wanted that real music back. That was missing when I left the streets. I would just say hip-hop is trendy right now. A lot of people doing the same things, dressing the same. Everything is trendy. Ain’t nothing wrong with that. They just trying to hustle. You see someone else winning, you try to go over here and do something similar. But that put a lot of people on the same mountain. When you put a lot of people on the same mountain, most of y’all fanbases are the same. My fanbase over here, they outcasts. Right? When people listen to it, I get some of them off that mountain too. Come over here. I like when people like my records. It benefits me.

You have a distinct sound. Are you tweaking it in any way to follow today’s standards?
Not at all. My music is gonna be Boosie music. I am not trying to sound like nothing that’s out right now. I think you start to do that when you listen to these guys so much. If you listen to somebody, that’s just life. If you hang around a certain amount of wrong people, you start doing wrong. If you hang around positive people, then you start doing positive things. So when you listen to these dudes, in that same venture, you go and try and make that music that’s similar to them. You are not thinking in your head, but you knowing what you are doing. I know what I am doing to not make it like that, so that’s what I do. My music is going to be different.

Anything else you want to add?
I got my movie script role. My whole biography or life story. Trying to sit down with that in a minute and see how we get that in theaters. ‘Cause I feel like my life story movie gets put in theaters, it’s a sell out. It’s gonna be crazy. I been through a lot. I am just so blessed to be here today to tell my story, man. There ain’t too many people that been through I been through as far as the life I had. The life that was taken away from me. My childhood upbringing. Diabetes. People try to bring me down. Hatred from the system. All kinds of stuff. All this into one movie. A basketball team. Kids. All kind of stuff.

So, once this hits theaters, I think it’ll grab more fans and they’ll be like, ‘Damn, this dude is lucky!’ This dude is lucky to be on his dying bed. ICU, pneumonia for weeks and all this shit. Seventy percent of his homies getting killed. People need to see that. If somebody is still focused enough to make music and keep going and keep smiling and giving back to the community, you need to support this man. A lot of people don’t support you if you characterize as one way to them. A lot of people put me in a bowl of negative stuff, but they never gotten to my music like that to say that. I got music for telling kids to chill out. Talking about God. Talking about single mothers. People read too many articles. If you read too many articles, you gon’ think I’m Mad Max! You know what I am saying? That’s why you can’t judge a book by its cover. That’s what people getting it wrong. I make one violent song or I get in trouble? That overshadows everything that I did. But that’s how it is.

The movie sounds exciting. That’s going to be big.
I think it’s going to be big for me and let people just really see my life story. I just want people to see instead of reading a couple of articles that somebody just put in the paper. They’ll see another side of me, like I am a good father. I come from nothing and I am still humble. A lot of people get money and forgot about what they went through. I never not take a picture. I never not sign an autograph, ‘cause without my fans I’m nothing. I’m back on the corner. I just think people need to see that and stop thinking I am Michael Myers. I got Winnie The Pooh in me. I like to laugh. I like to do all kinds of stuff. I like to water fight! Pillow fight—everything. I am normal.

But you know the media like to blow stuff up. I love God. I’m not no Illuminati. People wrote me jail and told me I need to get out the Illuminati. What is that? Man, I don’t know what y’all talking ‘bout. That ain’t my people man! What is the Illuminati? I said y’all trippin’ man. I’m so mad about that I was like what the hell is you talkin’ about? I don’t know no Illuminati. I read Psalms 35 every night.

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