Fredo Bang and Boosie BadAzz are blood cousins,
but they’re also on opposite sides of a deadly war in Baton Rouge.
They were scheduled to perform at a show together later this month.
But now Fredo says his cousin kicked him off the line up and is messing with his money.
Here’s what went down.
Boosie is like the Gucci Mane of Baton Rouge.
He’s a legend in the city and has been running the game since the early 2000’s.
But Fredo Bang has become one of the hottest rappers in Baton Rouge
since he was released from prison in 2018.
Fredo, Boosie, and another Baton Rouge rapper named Webbie
were all supposed to perform at a show called Louisiana Takeover on March 26.
But now Fredo has been removed from the concert and believes Boosie is responsible.
He posted the concert flyer to his Instagram story and captioned it with
“They Kicked Me Off This Show, But That’s What Happens When You The Most Hated.”
Then he posted another slide that said
“Real N***s Don’t Stop Other N***s Money, No Matter How Much They Don’t Like Em.”
The last picture he shared was a DM he sent to Boosie that said
“Dam blood u taking food out my mouth? U can’t do a show with me on it?”
That seemed like the end of it, but then Fredo posted a video
ranting about the situation and said
“You don’t **** with my music, **** you.
If you have anything bad to say about me, **** you.
Any ***** I was ******’ with and you ******’ with another *****, **** you
Your ***** prolly like me anyway
If I don’t text you back, it’s **** you.
If I open your DM and I don’t respond, it’s **** you. I don’t like none of y’all. **** all y’all,
straight up.
Yeah, **** everybody.
**** the label. They can suck my **** too.
How I'm feeling, **** everybody
Fredo also posted a flyer
for another show he’s scheduled to perform at with Webbie,
so those two might still be cool.
But the situation between him and his cousin is obviously heated.
No one knows exactly what’s going on,
and it sounds like Fredo don’t even know why he got pulled.
The beef between Fredo and Boosie goes back to 2005, when Fredo was just a kid.
At the time Boosie’s best friend was a dude named Lil Ivy.
Boosie had already dropped several projects and was popping in Baton Rouge.
Ivy was a street dude who started Top Boy Gorillas before he became a rapper,
but he ain’t have the same kind of buzz that Boosie did in the industry.
Boosie got his biggest breakthrough in January 2005
when he landed a deal with Warner Brothers Records.
This was a huge moment in his career, but it led to the beef that continues to this day.
Before he died, Ivy Smith thought another Baton Rouge rapper
was trying to sign him to their label.
Rumors started going around that Boosie wouldn’t pick up the phone and get the deal made,
and some people believe that he was trying to keep all the shine for himself.
No one knows actually what went down, but a few months later, Ivy Smith was dead.
On April 2nd, 2005, Boosie was supposed to meet Ivy at a club.
Even though there was some tension with the label issue, they wasn’t actually beefing.
When Boosie got to the club, a fight broke out and he ended up leaving,
which is a move that probably saved his life.
Later that night, Ivy left with two of his homies in their whip.
But the opps caught up to them and started letting off shots, killing everyone in the car.
No one was ever arrested, and the mystery behind the hit
is still affecting Baton Rouge today.
Ivy’s wife was pregnant with his son, Ivy Smith Jr. when he got killed.
Boosie stepped up and said he would take care of him and adopt him.
But then rumors started going around that he was actually involved in the murder.
According to the rumors, Boosie had Ivy taken out because of the label issue.
It ain’t exactly clear what went down between them, or how serious the situation really was.
It all happened back before social media,
and anyone who was actually around them at the time kept their mouths shut.
Boosie denied having anything to do with Ivy’s death,
but the rumors never really went away.
Ivy had a lot of family in the city
and they all heard the stories about his best friend getting him killed.
Even though there was no concrete proof Boosie was involved,
Ivy’s nephews and son turned against him.
One of Ivy's nephews who eventually went after Boosie is Lit Yoshi.
Yoshi is from TBG and one of the most savage shooters in Baton Rouge.
He’s currently facing seven attempted murder charges related to his beef with NBA Youngboy.
But before he went to war with the NBA crew, he sent shots at Boosie on social media
over the Lil Ivy situation.
Check out our video on Yoshi for a full breakdown of his life and career.
BoosieBoyBee is another Baton Rouge rapper affiliated with Boosie.
When he got home from jail, Boosie tagged him in an Instagram post
and called him “the real head yungin.”
Yoshi called himself “the head yungin,”
so he saw it as a diss.
Then BoosieBoyBee took the situation further when he claimed on a track that Boosie
had a $100K bounty on Yoshi’s head.
This wasn’t the first time that Boosie allegedly put a hit out on a rapper.
In 09' one of Boosie’s main rivals, Chris “Nussie” Jackson, was killed in Baton Rouge.
A dude named Marlo Mike, who was one of Booise’s close affiliates,
later confessed to the murder.
Nussie was beefing with Boosie before he got killed,
and the FBI received info that Boosie placed a $30K bounty on him.
Lit Yoshi made it clear he wasn't backing down from Boosie and his crew.
Yoshi’s known in the streets as a real demon,
so even if there was $100K on his head he was probably ready for the smoke.
He was about to turn up the disrespect and turn the son of Boosie’s best friend against him.
By this time, Lil Ivy Jr. was a teenager and his older cousin Yoshi
got him to record a diss track about Boosie and his crew.
At one point, Boosie was planning on adopting this kid as his own,
but now he was teaming up with his opps and dropping diss tracks about him.
Ivy Jr. also hopped on Live and aired Boosie out by saying
***** come to one of my ******’ events
for my school and call himself, uh,
he adopted me. ***** never. You ain’t never ******’ adopt me *****.”
Then Boosie’s son Tootie Raww jumped into the beef, dropping the track F***** Up,
where he rapped
“***** you know that I be thuggin’
I don’t **** with no gorillas.”
Fredo ain’t respond to the diss,
but he posted a video of him dancing to the song and sarcastically called it
the hardest track out the bottom since Set it Off, which is one of Boosie’s tracks from his early days.
Before all this went down,
it seemed like there was mutual respect between Fredo and Boosie,
even though they wasn’t tight.
Fredo reached out to him before and asked to be put on a show
but Boosie never responded directly to him.
Boosie said in an interview that there was no disrespect,
but Fredo ain’t know the whole story.
He said: “It’s a lot of stuff that Fredo don’t know about.
Fredo my cousin, It’s a lot **** this ***** don’t know about.
It’s a lot of **** he don’t know about as far as that situation.
I found out he was my cousin by great auntie.
She told me a year or something ago.
It ain’t no hate or anything like that.
Anybody in the city who doing their thing you know I want ****** to blow.
I feel like when n****s blow from Baton Rouge.
You know, that give us the power to make Baton Rouge the hub like LA,
Atlanta and **** like that.
Any ***** who tryna blow, it’s good.
I ain’t trippin on nobody. But yeah he my cousin.”
The two of them ended up running into each other at the airport
sometime later and talked everything out.
Fredo said Boosie explained the situation between him and TBG,
but neither one of them have spoken about it publicly.
Apparently they want to keep Baton Rouge business in Baton Rouge,
and not drag everything out in the open.
The only details that were made public was when Fredo went on The Breakfast Club
and told them “TBG was started in the 90s, so I don't really know what they got going on.
Boosie was kind of TBG.
There was basically Badazz entertainment and TBG, it was family.
You know, family business, something happened -- I don't really know.
When he came home everything was good. Something happened, I don't know."
Boosie’s been asked about his history with TBG many times by fans and the press,
but he’s made it clear
that he aint gonna talk about anything that went down in his home city.
He clarified in an interview that Fredo wasn’t an opp,
but street politics was keeping them from working together.
Fredo got Boosie’s number when they met at the airport,
but he thinks it might have been a fake.
He told the Breakfast Club crew “We talked, I got his number.
He said he was going to do some music with me, but he never picked the phone up.”
I ain't gonna lie, uhh
I think he just gave me the wrong number
So with all of the history between Boosie and TBG that no one knows about,
there’s no telling what’s actually going on behind the scenes.
Boosie ain’t explained the concert situation yet, and chances are he probably never will.
It’s clear he aint the type of dude who wants to make his business public,
so for now all we have to go off of is Fredo’s comments.
Fredo’s trying to get back in the game after his house got raided by a SWAT team in July 2021.
Lit Yoshi had posted bond for his seven attempted murder charges
and was staying with him at his house in Miami.
The police connected Yoshi to another shooting in Louisiana in 2020
and went to Fredo’s house with a warrant.
Inside the house they found a stolen car, body armor, and guns.
Fredo was booked alongside Yoshi
because he’s a convicted felon and can’t have guns and armor.
His bodyguards later came forward and claimed the armor was theirs,
and his lawyers said Fredo had no idea the car was stolen.
Fredo is free now, but it’s unclear if he’s still facing charges.
If there’s a chance that he’ll end up in prison,
he’ll definitely want to do as many shows as possible before getting locked up.
That would explain why he’s so mad about getting taken off the show with Boosie.
If the clock is ticking,
he only has so much time to make enough bread to take care of himself and his family while he’s gone.
But hopefully that ain’t the case.
Just when fans thought they would finally get to see Fredo and Boosie at the same show,
the whole thing came crashing down.
Fredo seems way more upset now
than he did back when Lit Yoshi and Boosie got into it,
so there might be something serious going on that we don’t know about yet.
Baton Rouge is a wild city, and everyone involved in the situation
has history in the streets.
Now Boosie has a common enemy with Fredo
after NBA Youngboy dissed him on the track I Hate Youngboy.
Boosie sent a shot back on I Don’t Call Phones I Call Shots,
but later said that he don’t want to “pop his top,”
and that he ain’t gonna speak on the situation publicly anymore.
Hopefully everything gets resolved without violence,
but all these dudes are more than capable of catching a body,
even if it's a blood relative.
This story is still developing so tap in for updates.