Torrence Hatch

Boosie Badazz has a total of eight children from different mothers. He says he wants to have more kids.

He suffers from various health issues, including diabetes. On November 25, 2015, he announced via social media that he was diagnosed with kidney cancer. Later he had successful surgery to remove the cancer.

Boosie Badazz was born as Torrence Hatch on November 14, 1982, and was raised in Southside Baton Rouge, a notorious place in Louisiana which is known for drugs and gunplay. His father was a drug addict, and struggled with addiction till his death in 1997. (According to some reports, he was murdered.) His mother was a schoolteacher. He has seven siblings.

His parents nicknamed him Boosie and he was later called Lil Boosie. He was a good basketball player, and his mother hoped that his good sportsmanship would help him get into a good college. However, he got involved in drugs, and was kicked out of high school.

When Boosie turned to rapping, his cousin Young Bleed introduced him to rapper C-Loc. He took Boosie under him and mentored him. Boosie joined the ‘Concentration Camp’ group in 1996, at the age of 14. He was the youngest member in the group.

Besides Young Bleed and C-Loc, the group consisted of six other members. Upon joining the group, Boosie debuted on C-Loc’s fifth album, ‘It’s A Gamble’ in 2000, and contributed to Concentration Camp’s third studio album ‘Camp III: Thug Brothas’ in the same year.

When Young Bleed left the group, Boosie got the opportunity to take the prime position in the group, and became an important member of the group. He recorded his debut album, ‘Youngest of da Camp’ in 2000.

In 2001, his big breakthrough came when he joined Pimp C's Trill Entertainment, and his album ‘For My Thugz’ was released in 2002. He also did his first mixtape ‘Boosie’ in 2002.

In Trill, he was paired with rapper Webbie for the album ‘Ghetto Stories’, released in 2003, and ‘Azz Mixtape Vol. 1’ launched in 2004. In the same year, ‘Trill Azz Mixes II’ was released. His second album, ‘Gangsta Musik’ was also released with Webbie in 2004.

Boosie Badazz founded Bad Azz Entertainment, a record label, in 2008. That year, he released ‘Lil Boosie Presents: Da Click’, which features ‘Da Click (Hatch Boy, Locco, Quick and Bleek)’. He also featured on the single ‘Independent’ by Webbie, and was featured on ‘Out Here Grindin’ by DJ Khaled.

His latest business venture is his clothing line—Jewel House—that was launched in 2014, after he was out from prison. It did a business worth $4 million in eight months. The name of the clothing line comes from his belief that his family members are his jewels.