Atlanta area rapper Boosie Badazz is pushing back hard against fans who say he violated the street code by taking his fight public.
On September 14, 2026, he posted a roughly three-minute video from a pink-walled room, diamond chain on, speaking directly into the camera. The clip was his response to people calling him a snitch after he appeared on 60 Minutes to talk about two lobbyists he says took $600,000 from him for a presidential pardon that never arrived.
His message was blunt: this is not street business. It is a contract dispute.
Boosie’s Controversial 60 Minutes Segment
The day before, CBS’s 60 Minutes aired an investigation into “pardon brokers” — consultants who charge large fees while claiming they can get cases in front of President Donald Trump. Boosie was one of the people featured.
He told correspondent Lesley Stahl he paid Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl of JM Burkman & Associates $600,000 upfront. “This is what I was led to believe: if you come with this money, you will get a pardon,” he said. The pardon never came. He says their agreement required them to return half the money if it failed. They refused. “They were just so cocky,” Boosie said.
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The pair has a documented history of legal trouble, including a large FCC fine tied to robocall activity. They have disputed Boosie’s account, denied a refund was owed, and said they performed work on his behalf. Burkman has said they “tried very, very hard.”
Boosie later posted that he sat for about an hour and that only fragments made the broadcast. He said he also described meeting the White House pardon czar, being told the president had signed a pardon, and having a dismissed case later revived with an added claim that he was an “addict” around a firearm — something he called unfair given he had never been offered rehab despite a prior marijuana sentence. He said he wants far more than a partial refund and hopes the interview helps him in civil court.
Boosie Responds To 60 Minutes Interview
After the segment, social media did what social media does with Boosie: it reached for his own past comments about snitching. Replies to his video included lines like “That’s not snitching?” and “I thought you didn’t like snitches? Now you snitching.” Others accused him of talking tough about “his own people” while taking white lobbyists to court and television.
In the video, Boosie argued that people were mixing two different worlds. Taking someone to court after they sign a contract, take hundreds of thousands of dollars, fail to deliver, and refuse to return the money is not the same as cooperating with police on a street case. “This is business, bro. This ain’t no street sh*t,” he said, according to recaps of the clip. He asked what critics expected him to do instead — “keep it in the street” with government lobbyists?
That distinction is the heart of the argument. Boosie has spent years publicly condemning informants. Going on national television to name the men he says scammed him, describe the deal, and pursue money in a legal process looks, to some fans, like the opposite of that stance. To him, suing two political operatives over a written (if sloppy) business arrangement is simply collecting what he is owed.
The Larger Picture
Boosie, born Torrence Hatch Jr., was dealing with a federal gun case tied to being a felon in possession of a firearm. Travel limits and the threat of more prison time made a pardon attractive. The lobbyists approached his lawyers in 2025, sold access and influence, and collected a large upfront fee. A contract reportedly included a $300,000 refund clause if no pardon arrived by a deadline; the document also contained errors, including a date that had already passed.
60 Minutes presented his story as part of a wider market in which people charge hundreds of thousands — and in some pitches, millions — while dropping names of activists, members of Congress, and White House staff. Boosie was not the only client described. He has called the arrangement a scam and said the men preyed on him while he was under pressure.
The video did not settle the debate. Some viewers still see a rapper who built a brand on not cooperating now using courts and cameras when the other side is white political operatives. Others see a man who paid a fortune, got nothing, and is using the only tools that actually work against people like that.
Boosie is treating it as a business collection matter. A large part of his audience is treating it as a test of the code he has spent years preaching. That gap is why a three-minute phone video, posted hours after a 60 Minutes appearance, became the next round of the story.