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Police are saying that Boosie and the other two men fired shots into the home of the victim, 35-year-old Terry Boyd. The trio was also allegedly in possession of ecstasy, marijuana and cocaine. The district attorney said that the death penalty is a possibility in this case.
Boosie is currently in prison for violating his probation on a previous drug charge. At the time of his trip to prison last fall, Boosie thought he was only going away for a few months.
"I gotta go away for, like, 10 months to a year," Boosie told MTV last year. "It's just a minor setback for a major comeback. I was gonna take 'em to trial, but I'm not gonna take them to trial. They offered me a deal. In Louisiana, you can't really win, bruh. So I'm gonna do my year, come back home, step it up even more. I leave on November 9th."
I was saddened to see that Lil Boosie would be involved in such ridiculous behavior in light of everything good he had in front of him. One of his challenges is that he's learning that once a person gets caught up in the system, it's pretty difficult to find your way out. Black men are seven times more likely to be incarcerated than white men, and there are a million and one ways for a man to get caught up in the culture of incarceration the plagues the black male community.
What is also interesting is that there are some rappers who brag about prison time as if it is a badge of honor. Personally, I say that there's nothing honorable about a man going to prison and leaving his family behind. Also, as Tupac explained before he died, prison is not like the fairytale we make it out to be. It's real.
I'm not sure how this is going to end for Lil Boosie, but what must end right now is the idea that black male rappers have to go to prison in order to "be real," or that selling drugs somehow makes your black experience more authentic. As I mentioned when I wrote that the age of the hoochie mama is over in hip-hop, the same thing is true for the age of "keepin it real" until it goes wrong. Good luck to Lil Boosie and his family.
Dr. Boyce Watkins is the founder of the Your Black World Coalition and a Scholarship in Action resident of the Institute for Black Public Policy. To have Dr. Boyce's commentary delivered to your e-mail, please click here. 
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By: ADMR on 6/18/2010 1:17AM
Lock Him Up & Throw Away The Key...Black On Black Homicide Is SELF DESTRUCTIVE. ( Doc Blogged at 12:21(-:)
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By: ,keiish keiish on 6/20/2010 11:45AM
,aww lay dwn yhur asz needa be lockd up &n let smeone. Throw away the key....FREE BOOSIE mann the white man always wna see a brotha goin dwn but if it was the otha way around the white man wld get sme slack na iim ii rght or wrng? Point blank period FREE MY BOOSIE BOO KEEP YHUR HEAD UP BAE....WE GNE PRAY FA YHU CONNIE &N BOOSIE !!!
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By: Nicole86 on 7/03/2010 2:56PM
MAN FREE BOOSIE EVERY BODY MAKE MISTAKES.......FREE BOOSIE FREE BOOSIE FREE BOOSIE FREE BOOSIE FREE BOOSIE FREE BOOSIE
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By: MISSOURI DRE on 6/21/2010 5:36PM
TO ALL YA'LL DUMB EDUCATED FUCCS IT'S A WAY OF LIFE NOW MURDER IS THE NEW BELT WHOOPING SO JUST WATCH WHAT U SAY AND WHO U HANG AND DEAL WITH AND U JUST MIGHT LIVE. MURDER IS HERE 2 STAY GO GET YA BIBLE -HOLY QURAN I HATE TO SAY IT THE ECONOMY THE RECCESION. "THE LACK OF" THATS WHAT ALL THIS IS COMING FROM POVERTY LACK OFF EDUCATION LACK OF REAL BLACK MEN LIKE MY SELF LACK OF KNOWLEDGE. IM A GOOD GUY BUT I CANT KILL MY BROTHERMAN EVEN THO THEY'LL KILL ME BUT MURDER IS HERE 2 STAY U CAN WALK THE STREETS TILL YA FEET BLEED IM FROM KANSASCITY MISSOURI SOUTH SIDE FOR LIFE DID PEACE WALKS 2-3 HOURS LATER SAME NEIBORHOODS WE WALKED SOME ONE GOT MURDERED JUST KEEP THE INSURANCE PAID SO WHEN THAT TIME COMES CRY AND GET PAID. AND I GUESS U CAN THANK THE PEOPLE THAT BROUGHT CRACK IN THE MID 80'S WE GOT A GENERATION GAP THATS MESSED UP I GOT HOMIES THAT MEETING THEIR FATHERS IN PRISON. MISSOURI DRE OUT PEACE FREE BOOSIE AND FREE MARLO MIKE YOUNG DEVILS 10 MURDERS I GOT 2 GIVE THEM THUMBS UP MURDER GAMES NICE IF U GONE DO IT ..................
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By: bad bitch on 6/19/2010 7:31PM
DO NOT LOCK HIM UP AND THROW AWAY THA KEY!!!! FREE MY FUCKIN NIGGA BOOSIE!!!!! HATIN BITHES!!!!!!
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By: gary on 6/21/2010 6:34PM
Good luck to Boosie? What about Terry Boyd...or the family of Terry Boyd who the spineless, gutless, no-talent scumbag forever affected by shooting into his home? Yep, it takes a real man to fire into a house and speed off! May the POS rot in Angola! In Texas, he'd get the needle.
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By: South Mane on 6/23/2010 7:51PM
I think u r a fuckin hater on d kool,but 9 times out of 10 u r a fuckin white boi
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By: gary on 6/23/2010 8:32PM
South Mane...you, sir, are a rocket scientist, and there's nothing "on d kool (sic)" about it. I tend to have a significant problem with village idiots who fire into occupied dwellings and kill people. That may seem strange to you, but it would seem that the only hater here is the spineless, gutless Lil stoogie. Sincerely, an "f'n" White boi (sic)
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By: Ro-Ro on 6/25/2010 4:48PM
FREE BOOSIE....everyone has a past and we've all made some dumb mistakes that we're not proud of and that just happened to be what happened with Boosie...he is very talented and i don't think we should let that dumb act affect our views of him...they should just make him do a couple of years and let him get off. Plus when they told him to take the plea bargain, they agreed to drop all the charges but all that was forgotten when they got him behind bars i guess...this was just a low-down technique they used to get Boosie and i don't think its right no matter how many people disagree!!!! MAN JUST FREE BOOSIE...KEEP YOUR HEAD UP BABY....JUST TRUST IN GOD AND EVERYTHING WILL WORK OUT!!!!!
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By: gary on 6/26/2010 9:35AM
Gee Ro-Ro, let's free Charles Manson, Sirhan Sirhan and all the terrorists at Gtimo. After all, they just made dumb mistakes. Lil Stoogie killed a man by shooting into an occupied home...and you want to free him? How would you feel if the victim was your brother, or father? Your logic escapes me. Send Stoogie to Texas..we can give him the needle.
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