Like its predecessor, it became a frequently bootlegged staple throughout the South, and solidified Boosie and Webbie as the spiritual successors to UGK and the Hot Boys. Pimp C had already begun serving his jail sentence, so Bun B did his best to fill in as the righteous but rowdy elder statesman offering guidance to the wayward post-adolescents from the Red Stick. The following year (2004), Webbie and Boosie reunited for their still-great but slightly less-so Gangsta Muzik. The second song is about finger fucking with their diamonds on-the most obdurate substance on the planet. I won’t reiterate how great that record is because I’ve already done that before, but it might be the hardest rap album of all-time. Hype had been building since Webbie’s first full-length record, Ghetto Stories, the now-canonized collaboration with Boosie. Released in the summer of 2005, a month before Hurricane Katrina hit, Savage Life is the moment when Trill officially (and briefly) became the true heirs to Cash Money. That changed yesterday, when the Savage famously uploaded his classic solo debut to Apple Music (and allegedly Spotify but it hasn’t shown up yet). It’s sad because ever since streaming services became music’s path of least resistance, there was one universal complaint among connoisseurs of pre-trap Southern rap: What cruel world would not allow Webbie’s Savage Life to be available on DSPs? No one was talking about his music anymore, but memes of Webbie in purple and gold football windbreakers became ubiquitous. During the last few weeks of Les Miles’ coaching tenure, Coach Webbie became the people’s champ. Charlemagne torched him for cheap laughs on the Breakfast Club, famously asking him about Obama, as though the man who infamously bragged about having sex with the barrel of the Tek ever expressed a straightforward political opinion in his life (despite “ Fuck the Police” being one of the best political songs ever written and “ Independent” deserving posthumous co-sign from Elizabeth Cady Stanton).Ī few years ago when I was in Baton Rouge, the LSU kids once again became enamored with the rapper notoriously wild with that chrome. He was lamely mocked for his drugged ramblings through Wal-Mart. If you didn’t live through the peak years of Trill Ent, you might only recognize Webster Gradney Jr. Do It Big, straight from the Sherwood section of Baton Rouge.
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