This seems rather unfair. It’s widely known that rappers portray a completely sensationalized version of themselves on wax, if not totally fabricated completely. During Lil Boosie’s murder trial for a 2009 murder yesterday, the prosecution played some of Boosie’s music, allegedly recorded just before and after the shooting. I’m sure the lyrics weren’t about cupcakes and lollipops. More details below.
Baton Rouge’s The Advocate reported that the jury was played a selection of a song entitled “187,†in which Boosie raps, “Yo Marlo/He drive a Monte Carlo/That bitch gray, I want that nigga dead today.†The “Marlo†Boosie is allegedly referring to is Michael “Marlo Mike†Louding, who Boosie is accused of hiring to kill Boyd. According to computer forensics expert, Konstantinos Dimetrelos, Boosie recorded this verse less than an hour before the murder took place.
Dimitrelos also testified that on the night of the shooting, 15 outgoing phone calls were made from the cell phone of Boyd, between the hours of 11:22 p.m and 12:56 a.m and that the calls began in the vicinity of Boosie’s home, moved to the scene of the crime, and ended back at the Boosie residence.
Hatch’s attorney, Jason Williams, refuted the prosecution’s notion that these lyrics implicated Hatch, claiming that the mentioned rhymes were much earlier works and were being “resampled†at the time of the recording. Boosie’s additional counsel, Martin Regan, claimed the state prosecutor, Dana Cummings, is using Boosie’s music to slander his client and that the lyrical content of “187†is “not relevant†to the case at hand.
Thursday (May 10), District Attorney Hillar Moore takes the stand, and is expected to testify in regards to a deal made with Louding, in which he admitted to the murder of Terry Boyd, among several other murders.
