Rod Wave Responds To Boosie Badazz Blasting Him For Uncleared Sample: Watch

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Rod Wave Performs at Capital One Arena
WASHINGTON, DC - November 29, 2022 - Rod Wave performs at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C. His latest album, Beautiful Mind, was released in August and debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart. (Photo by Kyle Gustafson / For The Washington Post via Getty Images)
What do you folks predict? Is the Florida singer going to try to fix this with Boosie or is he not interested in working with him?

After a couple of hours of silence amid a social media firestorm, Rod Wave addressed the Boosie Badazz situation on social media. For those unaware, the latter accused the former of sampling a song of his without his permission, even threatening a lawsuit for it. Overall, it seemed like it could've been a pretty contentious affair, especially given how criticized or vague sampling can be. However, the Florida singer's response puts this question to bed: is he going to play along or will they engage in even nastier beef? Well, now we know, and we can't say we're anything less than relieved at the result.

"On my momma Boosie," Rod Wave wrote on Instagram on Monday (November 20). "Big bra I fw ya tell me a real number. Yeen even gotta do all dat tell me a number ima pull [up] and bring it to you!!" "This s**t gotta stop, man," he added in a video message. "Man, you ain't got to sue no n***a like me. I'ma pull up! F**k you talking about, suing me? I'll pull up on you, bro. Tell me a number, tell me a real number, though. Don't go cr*zy, a real number. [I'm] gon' pull up and make sure you straight."

Rod Wave Says He Has No Problem With Paying Boosie For Sample: Watch

Meanwhile, these were Boosie's initial messages to Rod Wave about this whole deal. "Can't let you just take my s**t and I'm not getting nothing," he remarked on Instagram Live "I just want my split, you know, my cut ... I ain't mad, I love when they do that s**t. You gotta compensate me, too. It's a business. They wouldn't do that to a white artist. They wouldn't do that to another artist, just Boosie. So I'm coming back for all that, bro. Y'all already know."

"HOW IS IT FOUL?" the 41-year-old continued on Twitter a few hours later. "ITS BUIZNESS N YOU KNOW THAT. YOU AINT GO DO THAT TO NO OTHER MAJOR LABEL WITHOUT COMPENSATING THEM WITH THEY SPLITS!! WHY DO IT TO A N***A YOU LOOKED UP [TO]. U EXPECT ME TO LET U TAKE MY KIDS PUBLISHING GTFOH STOP PLAYING VICTIM MY N***A. IS U GO SAMPLE NO LIMIT, BAD BOY, CASH MONEY, SO SO DEF, MICHAEL JACKSON, MARVIN GAYE, [OR] PRINCE WORD FOR WORD FOR FREE? NO @rodwave." What's kind of ironic is that Kodak Black also caught heat from Badazz for these reasons of copying his songs. For more news and the latest updates on Rod Wave and Boosie, log back into HNHH.

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Gabriel Bras Nevares is a staff writer for HotNewHipHop. He joined HNHH while completing his B.A. in Journalism & Mass Communication at The George Washington University in the summer of 2022. Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Gabriel treasures the crossover between his native reggaetón and hip-hop news coverage, such as his review for Bad Bunny’s hometown concert in 2024. But more specifically, he digs for the deeper side of hip-hop conversations, whether that’s the “death” of the genre in 2023, the lyrical and parasocial intricacies of the Kendrick Lamar and Drake battle, or the many moving parts of the Young Thug and YSL RICO case. Beyond engaging and breaking news coverage, Gabriel makes the most out of his concert obsessions, reviewing and recapping festivals like Rolling Loud Miami and Camp Flog Gnaw. He’s also developed a strong editorial voice through album reviews, think-pieces, and interviews with some of the genre’s brightest upstarts and most enduring obscured gems like Homeboy Sandman, Bktherula, Bas, and Devin Malik.
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