Boosie Badazz has joined the growing number of online commentators speaking out against Netflix’s limited series Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.
The docu-drama premiered on the streaming platform on September 21, boasting a star-studded cast, including Evan Peters as Dahmer; Molly Ringwald as his mother; and Niecy Nash as Glenda Cleveland, the woman whose calls to police eventually led to Dahmer’s arrest.
However, the show was very quickly met with backlash as this version of Dahmer’s story — the third fictionalized account to be released since 2002 — is the first to truly delve into Cleveland’s story, thus shining a light on the role systemic racism played in masking the serial killer’s criminal activity.
According to Buzzfeed, despite breaking the record for the biggest series debut on Netflix, with 196.2 million hours viewed in its first week, many viewers have accused Monster of romanticizing Dahmer’s story. The public outcry increased when Rita Isbel, the sister of one of his victims, penned a column for Insider in which she denounced the latest representation of her brother’s killer.
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Isbel said that watching actress DaShawn Barnes’ convincing recreation of the moments in which she delivered her victim impact statement at Dahmer’s sentencing in 1992 was more than she could bear.
“That’s why it felt like reliving it all over again,” she writes. “It brought back all the emotions I was feeling back then. I was never contacted about the show. I feel like Netflix should’ve asked if we mind or how we felt about making it. They didn’t ask me anything. They just did it.
“I could even understand it if they gave some of the money to the victims’ children,” Isbel continues. “Not necessarily their families. I mean, I’m old. I’m very, very comfortable. But the victims have children and grandchildren. If the show benefited them in some way, it wouldn’t feel so harsh and careless.”
Isbel’s essay and a tweet from her cousin Eric Perry which also decried the series, only served to increase online complaints about the show. And on Thursday (September 29), Boosie shared his opinion about the series with his fans.
AS BLACK PEOPLE WE SHOULD BOYCOTT THE JEFFREY DAHMER MOVIE !! WHAT HE DID TO OUR BLACK KIDS IS FUCKING SICK,” Boosie tweeted. “#NETFLIX TAKE THIS MOVIE DOWN ITS SICK.”
The tweet was liked over 3,000 times and retweeted over 1,000 times, indicating that many of his fans supported the statement. Yet some used the opportunity to call the Louisiana rap veteran out about what they perceived as hypocrisy in his statement.
“Unfortunately you don’t get too have opinions like this when you got music about killing just as many n-ggas as he actually killed,” wrote one Twitter user. “Should we boycott your music or most of these other rappers as they are possibly influencing our youth into bad and sick behavior?,” another comment read.
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While he didn’t respond to any of the pushback, Boosie returned online a few hours later to address the lack of compensation to the victims’ families and once again urging fans to take action against the show.
“Us as Blacks, we need to ban this Jeffrey Dahmer movie,” he said in a clip. “This is some sick shit, what he did to our race. We need to boycott this damn movie off Netflix. The victim families should be getting paid off of every dollar Netflix make.”
It’s a movie. If you’re that sensitive to our pain, why choose to still live in America? Everything don’t deserve a megaphone and a picket line.
Boosie dumb af. This show clearly shows how a white man utilized white privelage to get away with murders. Also highlights the ineptitude of police who were clearly racist and homophobic. Ay Boosie, by your standards they should cancel anything depicting killing black children, even rap music right?
Boosie always rappin bout killing black folks
But it’s ok to make films like American Gangster to glorify drug dealing that destroys lives and communities. Guess it’s also ok to throw massive concerts to gain sympathy for freeing Larry Hoover who is responsible for how many deaths both directly and indirectly? Miss me with this selective virtue signaling Boosie
To be clear, fans were there for Kanye and Drake. They don’t give AF about Hoover.
Hey dumbass I just love how u single out American Gangster but act like mafia movies like Goodfellas and Scarface don’t exist when both movies was about drug dealings as well
Scarface and Goodfellas are works of fiction… American Gangster is based on a true story. Bad comparison
You letting me down Boosie. You claim to hate cancel culture when your instagram live hustle was banned by Mark “Zuckerburger”. But then you calling to cancel somebody elses hustle ? You loosing me Boosie with all that woke shit. Stay gangsta, fuck woke.
Wow. You just now realized this guy is a hypocrite and stupid? Did you miss when he accused an airline of being racist for not letting him on a plane when the doors were already closed and it had left a gate? One of many Boosieisms.
holy shit.
This guy is so stupid it’s almost profound. LOL. How does he put his clothing on and go about his day without help? Seriously. Dalmer is sick? Yes you fucking moron. The series is about a sick, deranged mentally I’ll psychopath and sociopath. That’s like saying don’t listen to Boosie. He’s a fucking idiot. Same weight. At least this has distracted him from all of those transgender “clits” he dreams about, and paying some sex worker to molest his son.
I haven’t watched this series (not movie, I don’t know if this dude even watched any of it because there are multiple episodes) but censoring art because it upsets you is a dangerous path to walk down. As the people who tweeted him back stated, how can you bash this series when you talk about killing your own people all the time in your art? This series isn’t for Boosie, cool, but don’t ask the company to take it down because it will happen to you some day. Just say “I didn’t like it” or whatever. This also isn’t just a Boosie problem, it’s a 2022 problem. We can’t even recreate the past because it is too traumatizing. It needs to be traumatizing so people understand how fucked up the world is. It’s better to know the devil exists and prepare to deal with it than to walk around all willy nilly in a fake world where everyone’s feelings are more important than facts and logic. Fuck Boosie
People do realize that it’s based on a true story, not a movie. Boosie is just echoing what the actual family of the victims have said. Why are you making a movie about a guy who killed black boys and ate them like you’re doing a new Hannibal Lecter picture? This isn’t art. John Gasey doesn’t have a dramatized movie. A documentary would be different, but this is an actual dramatized movie like this is something to be celebrated. It is sick. Just proves most people who post here aren’t black if you don’t see the problem with this. Shit is wild because I’ve never seen anyone make a movie on a serial killer outside of the one about that prostitute woman who killed her clients, and at least that one had an angle because it was the rare woman serial killer.
It’s history dumbass. Dalmer is a part of modern U.S. history and pop culture. There are dozens of golden era rappers that reference “biting like Dalmer” or some other play of words using his name. Boosie has a problem with him being gay. He ate PEOPLE that happened to be black. The story doesn’t get worse because of the skin color of who he murdered. If they were all Chinese it would be cool? The fact of the story is, the cops were called several times to his home and did nothing. They didn’t take it seriously because he was a weirdo white gay guy they didn’t want to interact with. He creeped the cops out. Nothing to do with white privilege, just disgust. They put out a few on Ted Bundy and this dork didn’t say shit. I guess murdering women of all races is cool though? Idiot.
It’s history. Everything is history shithead. Doesn’t mean you should be making a movie about it. The sole purpose of movies is to generate ratings and money. So it’s entertainment, and this shouldn’t have been made. But I understand, you’re probably white, so you don’t care.
Hypocrisy at its finest. But rappers love rapping about killing other black people. Some rappers actually do it. It’s only bad when it’s a white man. Let’s get it cancelled. We live in a crazy world. Our outrage seems to be selective.
His problem is with the fact that Falmer was gay I’m sure. It makes him fantasize about penis like everything else that triggers this fruit loop.
What does rap have to do with dramatizing these teenagers getting killed and eaten? The families don’t like the shit either, so I guess they ought to get over it too, right dumbass?
Unlike u trailer park trash black people and especially rappers if they do kill each other it’s not over race
Imagine if white people announced they were gonna boycott some series with a black person as the protagonist. Imagine the merchants kvetching.. it would be nationwide news and those white people would be called racist.. you would have every blue checkmark Rosenberg and Silverstein on Twitter rounding up every minority against whitey.. LOL.. this way around it’s considered “kosher”. Black on white violence happens more than the other way around, by the way. Source: FBI statistics.
What in the hell is your sick ass talking about?
Oh really so u just happen to have proof that black people just randomly kill white people for no reason whatsoever everyday
you know hes not wrong that why you say gimme a black guy who just kills whites. im sure there is buddy. i hate to break the news to you but blacks can be racist too.
Do you listen to yourself? The first post insisted that black on white crimes happen more often than the other way around everyday. Logically asking for proof of that only to be met with “since you just asked that, that means he’s right! blacks can be racist too! waaah!”? You definitely belong hiding anonymously on the Internet with the other cowardly delusional crybabies that will take any chance they get at hating black people. You are in no way any better than who you point fingers at and complain so much about.
I refuse. Boosie WashedUpAzz doesn’t give a damn about black people (he said very hateful things about black people pretty much every year), and is one of the biggest hypocrites regarding the issues pertaining to the black community since he literally glorifies and capitalizes off of the behavior and stereotypes in his music and social media, and gets very upset when people criticize his obviously messy things he still keeps showing off in public, while also being generally pleased with spreading the type of destructive mentality for other black people to continue to normalize, idolize, support, and mimic. If trashy people like Boosie complains, I say let them complain. They do nothing to make the world a better place. There are WAY too many people like this screw up and they need to stop having their way.