Fredo Bang vs Boosie: The Cycle of Family Beef

What up gang.

Back with the real you know what’s the deal. The streets is messed up man. Out here turning families against each other, but that’s the reality, the streets ain’t built to bring togetherness but separation and we’re seeing it with two generation of families in Baton Rouge; Boosie Badazz and Fredo Bang. 

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Both are cousins, one a Louisiana Legend, the other building his legacy to that status, but beef not even directly connected to them has torn them apart. What’s this beef? Where did it all start? Who was murked? Why is it affecting lives more than a decade later? We’re about to find out. Let’s chop it up and break it down.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the city has become one of the most talked about when it comes to hip hop. From the number of artists putting the city on the map, two in particular are our focus, Boosie Badazz 

And Fredo Bang.

We all know Boosie is an OG in the streets and in the rap game, his legacy is stamped and sealed. Fredo Bang on the other hand might be a youngin in the game but his street credentials, at least from what we’ve seen is legit and that boy got talent that can stand out in a crowd with the best of em, so his future goat status is all but certain. Two heavy weights. Two street dudes. Two artists that got the city rocking, and we all were as surprised as them to find out that both of them were cousins https://youtu.be/MA_92PRlps8 (0:11-0:38) https://youtu.be/LS6Hr6BWccI (12:04-12:24) The song Fredo Bang is speaking on is titled “My Ninja” where Boosie raps the bar “For the families, The Hatches, The Givens, for the prays they were sending that kept a ninja living” https://youtu.be/7ArJavCIMBU (2:02-2:08) Boosie’s name is Torrence Hatch Jr. and Fredo’s name is Fredrick Givens II. Even Boosie manager is a Givens

So naturally, if you’re fans of both of em then you’re excited as hell cause you’re thinking, the music drop about to go crazy, right? Wrong

So logically the next question is, well both ya’ll rappers, both ya’ll hood certified, both ya’ll lit, both ya’ll blood, so why not make them bangers and stack that bread together? The answer was simply yet complicated at the same time, the street code. I’ve done videos on the backstories of both Fredo Bang and Boosie so you can check em out to know about their come up and ties to the streets. What’s important here is that both were originally tied to the group Tob Boy Gorillas aka TBG, 

but Boosie had a falling out with the founder and is now rocking with their rivals, Bottom Boy Gorillas aka BBG while Fredo Bang is still TBG. And that is the root cause of why they initially kept their distance from each other, but it goes much more deeper as you’d see when we get into the backstory of what happened. To Fredo, it’s not really a big deal, and that’s understandable, because he came along after the whole split had happened so he wasn’t present when the relationships went south and bodies were dropped, he kept it all the way real in an interview on the breakfast club explaining the situation dates back beyond his time and generation https://youtu.be/Kcl3CgoXKUg (2:19-2:35) Fredo saw him and Boosie being blood cousins like we saw it, an opportunity to band together and shake the industry up with some heat, but Boosie never returned his messages about attending his annual Boosie Bash or returned any feedback to songs Fredo Bang set to do together https://youtu.be/LS6Hr6BWccI (12:36-13:20) https://youtu.be/MA_92PRlps8 (3:33-3:38) https://youtu.be/h3Uj8TZXmSw (2:08-2:28) https://youtu.be/TyxrgX_Zy7I (11:09-11:24)

Unfortunately, none of Fredo Bang’s requested went answered. The thing with Boosie and where he comes from, the street code is gospel. As it is written that’s how it’s gonna be and because Fredo is affiliated with people at TBG he doesn’t rock with, then automatically Boosie isn’t going to form any type of bond with Fredo, nothing personal, just on the wrong side of the fence https://youtu.be/wzLoCBUmcN8 (0:17-0:40) Seems both had an understanding that it’s nothing personal, but Fredo continued extended an olive branch to work together. 

At first it was just through interviews and online addressing the situation https://youtu.be/LS6Hr6BWccI (12:26-12:34) Then Fredo saw Boosie at the airport when both were heading to Atlanta and they chopped it up like grown folk https://youtu.be/h3Uj8TZXmSw (0:57-1:12) Bossie would break down to him the real of why he’s keeping his distance, but we’ll get to that in a sec. After they had a one on one, they exchanged numbers but Fredo Bang would later reveal that Boosie may have given him the wrong number on purpose and he never got a response back when he hit Boosie’s line https://youtu.be/Kcl3CgoXKUg (1:53-2:12) https://youtu.be/MA_92PRlps8 (0:50-1:34) Fredo was really trying to link up and make some music but Boosie or whoever number it was would never respond https://youtu.be/MA_92PRlps8 (1:39-1:48) Fredo felt a way but it never got to him until recently when he popped up online to air out Boosie, saying he removed him from a show him Webbie and Boosie were carded to perform on 

Not long after the flyer was changed to show only Boosie and Webbie to perform

That was something Fredo couldn’t tolerate because he felt like Boosie was taking food off his plate

And even posted a DM he sent to Boosie calling him out for the petty shenanigans 

Fredo wasn’t done there. He hopped on live to let it be known he’s done playing Mr. Nice Guy and took a couple shots at everybody including Boosie and Webbie calling them broke https://youtu.be/27ohC4p0bnY (0:59-1:34) https://youtu.be/OGX_OFdNAEk (7:45-8:00) Thinking about it, it probably wasn’t Boosie that took him off but promoters wanting to avoid anything popping off knowing the two camps don’t rock like that and tensions can go off at any minute. All it takes is one ignorant moment for gats to start bussin’. But it is what it is and Fredo wasn’t going to let anyone lil boy him.

While Fredo was looking at their beef less serious, Boosie had a different view. Back tracking a bit, remember when Boosie and Fredo chopped it up at the airport? Boosie let him know about the fall out between TBG and his label Bad Azz Entertainment https://youtu.be/h3Uj8TZXmSw (1:15-2:01) https://youtu.be/Kcl3CgoXKUg (2:48-3:01) The two were like one family and Boosie was like brothers with the founder of TBG, Ivy Smith aka Lil Ivy

Their falling out is what connected the beef between Boosie and Fredo Bang some 15 plus years later. The bond between TBG and Bad Azz Entertainment came crashing down when Lil Ivy was murked in 2005. Police reports state that Ivy was caught lackin’ after an argument at a club earlier in the night when a car pulled up beside his whip and sprayed everyone, leaving no survivors https://www.wafb.com/story/4276193/triple-murder-remains-unsolved/ 

That was the original report, but the feud between Fredo and Boosie relit the fire under that situation and Ivy’s nephew and Fredo right hand man, Lit Yoshi stepped in coming at Boosie neck on live

According to him people have been scared to tell the truth of what happened back then and accuses Boosie of being the reason Ivy got murked https://youtu.be/R8CBkxI00UA (3:28-3:44) Lit Yoshi said what really happened was Trill Ent, the label that signed Boosie since back in the day 

wanted to sign Ivy but Boosie was basically blocking his shine and Ivy wasn’t rocking with him. The night Ivy got hit up, Boosie ran from a fight that broke out leaving Ivy to get murked https://youtu.be/R8CBkxI00UA (2:02-2:50) Yoshi was going off and ready for all the smoke https://youtu.be/R8CBkxI00UA (5:21-5:37) Yoshi wasn’t done their, he also said TBG was Boosie muscle and Boosie made it out and then blocked TBG from making it cause he wanted all the shine for himself https://youtu.be/R8CBkxI00UA (0:06-0:14) https://youtu.be/R8CBkxI00UA (5:38-6:47)  Those statements line up with Lil Ivy’s son, Lil Ivy Jr who said Boosie just wanted Ivy spot to soak up all the clout for himself https://youtu.be/AYUbPRFVjMU (5:18-5:37)

And just like that, what started with Fredo Bang extended into a beef that was escalating and bringing everyone in with it. Lil Ivy Jr would call Boosie out for saying he was there for them after Ivy passed and adopting him because he never did nothing for the fam https://youtu.be/AYUbPRFVjMU (0:52-1:25) Even Lil Ivy daughter was going at Boosie neck 

https://youtu.be/3m6c2xa2XIo (0:30-1:02) https://youtu.be/3m6c2xa2XIo (4:09-4:30) https://youtu.be/3m6c2xa2XIo (4:38-5:05) Boosie might have kept it tame out of respect for his past homie Ivy, but his son Tootie Raww wasn’t for no type of disrespect and came out swinging with the diss “F’d Up” making it clear he rolled with killers and don’t mess with no Gorillas. Youngin was going crazy on the beat https://youtu.be/7dsvq78X6Uc (0:57-1:26) 

Fredo Bang would tag back in the ring, riding round in the whip mocking Tootie Raww playing his song https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FO-AVsS7ymU 

Then he linked up with Ivy Jr to drop the track “His Partna” with both taking shots at Boosie and Tootie Raww https://youtu.be/q2sxw-_SU-s (0:21-0:27) https://youtu.be/q2sxw-_SU-s (1:26-1:54) Ivy Jr. wasn’t finished yet and dropped the solo track “4/5” with the bars “How my daddy was your partna but you wna beef with us/hold on wait I know what it is he D riding snakes/so when we catch his ahh we gon’ F up that boy face/and Yoshi that’s my evil twin we spray that bih like mase/ya’ll actin’ like ya’ll hard but them BBG’s is gay/that’s why when we catch yo ahh we gon’ hit you with that K” https://youtu.be/8PJWZl5kfl0 (1:47-2:03) 

It was getting real and even the kids were getting dragged into it. There’s no W at the end for either camp if one of their youngins takes another’s life but everyone was with the smoke. Ivy Jr. let it be known, he was trying to talk before but now its up so either let Boosie and Tootie come see him or stay out his DMs https://youtu.be/AYUbPRFVjMU (4:15-4:40) https://youtu.be/ojCdqYs72GA (0:52-1:15)

Boosie was moving in silence. The next thing he did was cosign his nephew Boosie Boy Bee that got home from the pen, calling him the real head youngin’

Lit Yoshi, who called himself the head youngin’ in charge caught the diss and made sure to include a rebuttal in his rant https://youtu.be/R8CBkxI00UA (4:27-4:47) https://youtu.be/R8CBkxI00UA (2:55-3:18) Boosie was often associated with putting assassins on his opps for the bread, you can check out my vid on the Boosie murder case for an entire breakdown of Boosie’s alleged greenlight hits. But here again Boosie’s authority in the hood is seen. Steppas, including his nephew Boosie Boy Bee was coming out the woodworks with the choppas posting up to the song “word to the opps, my ninjas want you dead, my uncle want yo head, lil soldier want yo legs/how you sleep at night when you got 100 on your head” https://youtu.be/X1gjWhOE0SE (0:21-0:33) https://youtu.be/9GmFAqXRyWw (1:45-2:07) https://youtu.be/9GmFAqXRyWw (0:00-0:42)

Boosie Boy Bee kept the pressure coming, dropping back to back shots on wax https://youtu.be/D8LfNIbvJ3A https://youtu.be/CH4Ugsywk2Q (0:07-0:19) 

To this day Boosie has always showed loved to his fallen homies, especially Ivy and Bleek

But like a slap to the face, Ivy’s daughter and son only rock with Fredo Bang

The beef seems to have simmered down with Yoshi fighting multiple charges, but Ivy Jr still doesn’t rock with Boosie https://youtu.be/kw7SBvhRkLM (4:54-5:28) As for Fredo Bang, he released his song “Underdog Hero/Dead Man” on March 19^th 2022 in promotion for his upcoming album “2 Face Bang 2” where he raps the bars “you speak on Gee I put em down and leave his mouth wide/and tell my cousin get out my business he better not pick a side, bih” https://youtu.be/ENbp8HkQUm8 (2:46-2:52)

All these persons involved in this beef are talented, especially Fredo Bang who has the spotlight for this era. Hopefully him and Boosie sort things out and give us the bangers we need and squash the beef between both camps.

So there you have it. Thanks for kicking it with yah boy, appreciate the love and support. Catch ya’ll in the next one. Peace up and peace out.

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