Boosie Badazz Gears Up To Drop Controversial “Letter To The Gays” Single

Boosie Badazz attends the BET Awards 2023 at Microsoft Theater on June 25, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.

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Boosie Badazz‘s new song, “Letter To The Gays,” is intended to be a conversation with the LGBTQIA+ community—and he teased the song on social media.

On Wednesday (June 19), the Baton Rouge rapper hit X/Twitter, sharing a video of himself driving and listening to his upcoming song. The post revealed that his “new album” will drop on Tuesday (June 25) and that the controversial song is set to be included on the project. Fans could hear a snippet of the track’s lyrical matter, with the artist calling out some rappers for acting gay in hopes of making money off of the community.

“Rapper paint they nails and toes, ‘That’s what women do’/ Playing gay so ya’ll support em,’ they pimpin’ you/ So really ya’ll get played for change, supporting people who don’t even know your pain,” he raps in the video. “How can a real woman lay up in a bed with a man who got nails like her?/ Wear a f**kin’ purse like her, but not bleeding on the 1st like her?”

Boosie has a history of being combative with the LGBTQIA+ community, with the rapper previously making homophobic and/ or tone-deaf remarks at their expense. In January, the artist claimed to have walked out on The Color Purple due to its queer themes.

He hit social media and condemned the relationship between Taraji P. Henson and Fantasia Barrino’s characters, dismissing it as an act of “pushing the [gay] narrative.”

“I HAD TO WALK OUT THIS COLOR PURPLE MOVIE ( N TWO OTHER OLDER COUPLES WALKED OUT ALSO.) BECAUSE I HAD MY LITTLE GIRLS WITH ME N IT SEEMED LIKE A LOVE STORY,” he typed. “GOOD ACTING BUT WHOEVER WROTE THE SCRIPT IS PUSHING THE NARRATIVE HARD AS A PARENT I WILL NOT LET MY LITTLE GIRL WATCH THIS FILM.”

In September 2023, Boosie revealed that he turned down performing at a LGBTQIA+ event. The “Set it Off” artist explained that they offered him $250,000 for the potential concert, but asserted, “That’s not what I believe in.” However, at this time, he did attempt to clarify that he doesn’t “hate” gay people, but just doesn’t agree with their lifestyle.

“I been offered a quarter million to go perform at LGBTQ community things,” he expressed. “Big money! I told them, ‘I have nothing against it at all, but that’s not what I push, and that’s not what I believe in’. A quarter million. I’m good. That’s not what I believe in.”

“They act like I hate them. My assistant is gay. This man deals with millions of dollars for me. I trust gay people more than I trust regular people. Real talk. A lot of them be genuine. It’s probably because when that stuff came out with what I said about Dwyane Wade‘s daughter, that put me in a hole with that community. I should’ve said it in a better way. People started judging me on that, but nah man, I don’t have no problems with what nobody do. I just don’t agree with it.”

Listen to a snippet of “Letter To The Gays” above.

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