Boosie Badazz and Lil Nas X‘s back-and-forth heated up this week when the Baton Rouge rapper told the “Industry Baby” star to “commit suicide” in a homophobic Twitter tirade — all because Nas jokingly claimed he and Boosie have a collaboration on the way.
Boosie’s outrageous outburst even drew Lil Nas X’s father into the spat, who fired back by accusing the 38-year-old rapper of being a hypocrite.
“How the hell you’re a gangsta rapper promoting drugs, gun violence, degrading women and getting high every video talking about you’re for the kids man sit your old man looking ass down,” Nas’ dad wrote on Instagram. “The game has past you. We real Bankhead over here. Not like the guy who claims it.”
Boosie responded to Lil Nas X’s father by spewing yet more homophobia, tweeting, “DONT GET MAD AT ME CAUSE YOUR SON CAME OUT LIKE THAT LOL. I KNOW IT HURTS.”
Despite the widespread backlash Boosie Badazz has faced for his continued attacks on Lil Nas X, he isn’t without his supporters — and the latest person to join those ranks is unexpected, to say the least.
Bounce music pioneer and fellow Louisiana native Big Freedia weighed in on the topic during a brief chat with TMZ on Wednesday (October 27). Despite identifying as a gay man who uses the pronouns “she/her,” she refused to condemn Boosie for his blatant use of homophobic slurs.
Instead, Freedia believes Boosie’s beef lies with Lil Nas X rather than the gay community as a whole, highlighting the homosexual actors he cast in his recently released movie My Struggle.
“Listen, I don’t think Boosie is homophobic,” she said. “I just think he has a problem with Lil Nas. Boosie’s new movie My Struggle has lots of gay folks in there. He has a whole gay scene in jail where he has a lot of gay guys from Louisiana representing.”
When asked about Boosie’s loose use of the word “faggot,” she replied, “He was upset. I mean, when people get upset, they say whatever’s on their mind and on their heart.”
Big Freedia isn’t the only artist to weigh in on the back-and-forth between Boosie Badazz and Lil Nas X. Earlier this week, Azealia Banks dragged Boosie on Instagram for his homophobic attack, saying he “gets no extra street cred for antagonizing a young black kid for who he chooses to love.”
Banks also had harsh words for Dave Chappelle, who’s currently facing backlash from parts of the LGBTQ+ community over his latest Netflix special The Closer.
Boosie Badazz began his homophobic campaign against Lil Nas X in 2019 when he roasted the “Old Town Road” hitmaker for coming out as gay. “Well, now u know what he was riding on the Old Town Road,” Boosie quipped on Instagram.
Things really started to heat up this past summer during the fallout from DaBaby’s homophobic remarks at Rolling Loud Miami, when Boosie accused Lil Nas X of pushing homosexuality on children while claiming the media and music industry has double standards.
Since then, the pair have settled into an amusing pattern in which Lil Nas X gleefully trolls Boosie Badazz while Boosie gets irrationally angry at the mere thought of the MONTERO rapper.
Boosie telling Lil Nas X to kill himself is certainly the ugliest moment in their exchange so far, but it likely won’t be the last.
Big Freedia is free to have that opinion, especially since she has been nothing but civil and mature about this, but it’s clear that Boosie has a huge problem with gay men in general. Has a history for being extremely hypocritical and petty with not just Lil Nas X, but men in the LGBT in general, to the point of even focusing on the fictional ones so much with the same “protect the kids” BS despite what he openly did to his own children, yet has little qualms with lesbian women, since ghetto trash heaps like him fetishizes them and think it’s hot. Boosie can’t do that with the men, so he has a problem, but with how much he focuses on them, it makes even his hood rat fans wonder if he actually lust over them too, because there ain’t no way someone who hates gay men focus on them as much as he does, especially when who he rants about kept ignoring his tantrums.
We really should stop talking about this musty flop rapper that should just retire back into the sewers, eating shit with the rest of the roaches, within the streets that he came from. All he does is rant all the time nowadays. Anything else he does never seems to work out well with how reckless and ignorant he is. Not even his fans directly support him that much since he ranted about them too, even though they really love to make it seem like he’s like a king or whatever in the hip hop and black communities.
A gay man who goes by she pronouns doesn’t think Boosie is homophobic. Huh. I agree. I at this point think Boosie is a closeted homosexual. They are two different things.
No matter how many times the world uses the words “homophobic, transphobic, genderphobic” …. it won’t change the fact that it is no where listed in the DSM.
Gays need to stop pushing their beliefs like it’s a religion someone has to accept. If he don’t want to be bothered it’s his choice. Stop being mad when someone check your ass. Now you want to bring a whole community in to defend your ass. So I call black ppl to respond Everytime they criticize a black man since we bringing in communities. Kiss his black ass. Yeah I said it
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Man, isn’t Lil Nas like 20-21 yrs old? A grown man, sure, but not really. Boosie, supposedly a real adult, looks like a fool. Who cares if the kid’s gay? Not really his «fault» or something he can do anything about. Much like someone’s skin color, btw, which surely would cause some outrage if that was the topic of slandering.