Boosie Badazz doesn’t have a very high opinion of the defense lawyer from the XXXTENTACION murder trial, especially since they tried to subpoena Drake for his testimony.
During a sitdown with VladTV on Saturday (May 27), the Baton Rouge native mused about the life sentencing of Michael Boatwright, 28, Trayvon Newsome, 24, and Dedrick Williams, 26, for the death of XXXTENTACION (real name Jahseh Onfroy) outside a Florida motorsports shop in June 2018.
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Boosie seemed to think it was a good sentence for the three convicted killers, though he speculated that there were other factors tied to their sentencing.
“You get life if you kill a rapper. You ain’t gettin’ no years,” he said. “Most of the time, especially if you’re this color [Black], you’re getting years. That’s just how it is.”
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Vlad then informed Boosie that the killers’ defense lawyers tried to drag Drake into the case. Initially, the 6 God was ordered to sit for the deposition, but on February 14, Judge Usan signed off on Drake’s motion to avoid the deposition following the court’s previous order for him to sit down and answer questions.
Boosie, however, found the humor in the whole situation. “That shit had me dying laughing, bro,” he said, after which Vlad explained that 600 Breezy was also unwittingly dragged into it because of an unresolved beef he’d had with XXXTENTACION prior to his death.
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Finally, Vlad repeated Akademics’ unsubstantiated claim that process servers were sitting in front of Drake’s house for over two months trying to serve him with papers to testify, for which Boosie was unamused.
“Yeah, they was reaching,” Boosie replied. “I said, man, ‘I know they ain’t finna subpoena no fuckin’ Drake.'”
Drake ultimately avoided having to sit for the deposition altogether on February 24, when Judge Michael A. Usan ruled that the Scorpion rapper did not have to sit for a deposition regarding X’s murder.
Suspect Dedrick Williams’ lawyer Mauricio Padilla had presented Drake as a possible alternative theory to the murder, citing their beef before the Florida rapper’s death.
Judge Usan found Padilla’s arguments to be unconvincing. “What does that have to do with someone who you have no evidence of being involved other than hearsay and innuendo?” Usan asked Padilla as he tried to state his case. “You are now trying to just drag somebody in who’s a celebrity who does not want to be associated with this. And the harm to that individual is not inconsequential.”
He continued: “At best, that would be adding an unindicted co-conspirator, if you will. But that’s not a defense to the individuals that are here.”
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XXXTENTACION was shot and killed outside a motorcycle shop in Florida on June 18, 2018. He was just 20 years old. The assailants got away with $50,000 in cash in a Louis Vuitton bag that the rapper had just withdrawn.
