Boosie Badazz is adamant about getting Rod Wave and different artists who’ve interpolated his work to pay up.
The 2 have been at odds since Wave used the hook from Boosie’s “Lengthy Journey” on his personal track of the identical title just a few months again.
After the Baton Rouge MC caught wind of his work being repurposed with none compensation, he threatened authorized motion however was briefly pacified by the singer promising to settle issues in individual.
On Wednesday (November 29), the Boosie shared updates in regards to the ongoing ordeal throughout a livestream on Instagram.
“That n-gga Rod Wave ain’t pull up on me,” he stated. “No, I don’t personal the track absolutely; I personal a proportion of it. I nonetheless have publishing in it and author’s credit, so I suppose when he came upon that, he don’t need to give me nothing.
“We going to court docket. No one contacted me, no one gave me my publishing, no one gave me my author’s credit score, so the way you cleared it if you ain’t cleared it with me?”
He added: “Now the CEO, they calling me — ‘Boosie, we going to place you within the publishing, we going to place you within the author’s credit score.’ Too late. It’s too late now.”
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Boosie Badazz threatens to take Rod Wave to court docket after he fails to “pull up” on him
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Boosie has revealed that he’s stored receipts of all of the artists who’ve used his music in a method or one other as a part of their information. And he’s trying to money in on it quickly.
Final week, a fan requested him about Rod Wave’s “Lengthy Journey” on Instagram Dwell, which he claimed to have already been conscious of.
“Rod Wave ain’t the one one,” Boosie responded. “Y’all higher do y’all analysis. I finished acquired paperwork on the best way. Lot of individuals, it ain’t simply Rod Wave.”
The rapper additionally clarified that he “ain’t mad” in regards to the lyrical borrowings, however he does need his minimize, saying: “I like once they do this shit. They be giving my flowers. I be liking that shit once I hear it. It’s simply, you gotta compensate me too. It’s a enterprise.”
Quickly after the video started making the rounds on-line, Wave issued a response.
Taking to his Instagram Tales, he wrote: “On my momma, Boosie large bra I fw ya inform me an actual quantity Yeen even gotta do all dat inform me a quantity ima pull and produce it to you!!”
In a separate video posted to Twitter that has since been deleted, he added: “Man, you ain’t gotta sue no n-gga like me, man. I’ma pull up and be sure you straight.”